What generates gems?

[TheWetFish]

I did forget about them. I'm not too fussed, they are well documented (I think).

Raven Feast (A4 Conj 5, 4 gems) is actually fairly good. It's a very niche spell but for 4 gems you clear out all of the unburied corpses in a province. The death gems are just a bonus. You will very rarely need to clear unburied corpses but for 4 gems and some lost research time you can slow down undead races.

[thejeff]

I've also used it as an air nation trying to diversify into death magic. It can get you gems for Dark Knowledge cheaper than alchemy. Not a major source, but if you've got Air gems and you're thinking of alchemizing to get Death...

[NTJedi]

TheWetFish said:
I did forget about them. I'm not too fussed, they are well documented (I think).

Raven Feast (A4 Conj 5, 4 gems) is actually fairly good. It's a very niche spell but for 4 gems you clear out all of the unburied corpses in a province. The death gems are just a bonus. You will very rarely need to clear unburied corpses but for 4 gems and some lost research time you can slow down undead races.

Whenever possible it's better to use those corpses for casting carrion reanimation.... unless your opponent has acquired and can use undead mastery.

[dirtywick]

Luck scales will generate gems.

[JimMorrison]

Quantify that please.

[dirtywick]

At least once?

[Endoperez]

JimMorrison said:
Quantify that please.

Late Age, all nations started with 9 provinces and had identical dominion value, probably about 6, and never conquered new provinces:

Arcos, Order 3 Misf 2 Magic 3:
turn 1: 400, +961/turn
turn 30: 27k, +920/turn, 7 gems

Man, Order 3 Luck 3 Drain 3
turn 1: 400, +959/turn
turn 30: 30k, +1064/turn, 55 gems
got Ice Sword (constr 0), Blood Stone (constr 4)

Tien Chi, Order 3 Growth 2 Misfortune 2 Magic 1
turn 1: 400, +1200/turn
turn 30: 38k, +1400/turn, 19 gems

Agartha, Or 1 Death 1 Luck 3 Magic 1
turn 1: 400, +900/turn
turn 30: 26k, +890/turn, 96 gems
got Owl Quill, Ring of Fire (both constr 2)


Source: me.

[Meglobob]

In a MP game, I had the lucky event for nature which give me +22N gems in one go, wow!

[Ironhawk]

I can never tell how many gems I get from the gem events. I guess I dont keep good enough track of my gem totals.

[Endoperez]

Meglobob said:
In a MP game, I had the lucky event for nature which give me +22N gems in one go, wow!

Water and Nature have better gem-producing events. "Some water gems have floated ashore" and some spesific nature event. When you get blood slaves, you also get quite a lot of them. If you have hunters the amount won't be significant, but if you DON'T, few good events may GIVE you a hunter!