Gem Income?

[theenemy]

It all depends on:

1. Your magic site frequency setting in options before starting a game.

2. If you are site searching with mages or with spells. I find it easier to get magic economy rolling by using spells instead of searching manually. It also saves alot of time. Try to focus your starting gems onto basic search-spells(Augury, Gnome Lore etc.) before going for other magical things that require gem-usage.

3. The luck scale affects gem income. The higher your luck-scale the bigger is the chance of receiving gems in random events each turn.

4. What kind of terrain you are site-searching in.