Wishlist Alchemy - Converting Gems for Gold needs a better Rate

MaxWilson · #1 June 7th, 2008, 01:45 PM

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JimMorrison said:
I don't see any reason to have it equal other than laziness (on my part). It just irks me that you have these gems of pure crystallized magical essence, and there aren't people just crawling out of the woodwork to give you good money for them.

Alchemy is not the same as selling on the free market. Apparently the alchemical process demands fire or earth gems and nothing else.

It would be interesting if you could research more efficient alchemical processes. What if there was an F4E4 spell at Conj-9 that cost 20 Fire gems and gave you 5000 gold?

-Max

calmon · #2 July 22nd, 2008, 04:45 PM

A bump for KO and his empty inbox

Darkstone · #3 July 22nd, 2008, 05:00 PM

I hope this manages to be added in the next patch. It likely fulfills the requirements for patching (being in demand & easy to do).

llamabeast · #4 July 23rd, 2008, 04:42 AM

Herode · #5 July 23rd, 2008, 05:11 AM

+50% or +100% when alchemizing the gems seems fair.
A nice idea could be : include this ratio in the game settings, along with the magic site frequency and so on.

krpeters · #6 July 23rd, 2008, 01:23 PM

If alchemy is supposed to be a *process* of some kind... maybe we can make it more interesting by allowing you to use different combinations of gems.

So 10 earth gems gets you 1000 gold, but so does 4E4F, as does 1E1F1A1W1. Depending on which nations we wanted to help (Ulm comes to mind) we would set the combination accordingly.

JimMorrison · #7 July 24th, 2008, 01:08 AM

Ooohhh, mysterious formulae could be fun. Such as converting Air+Fire to Water at a slightly better rate than normal, or perhaps Nature+Death to Earth, that sort of thing. And nothing too outrageous, just a bit better than 4-1 if you happen to have the right combinations.