Machaka – a sorcerer’s fevered arachnophobia

[vfb]

Originally Posted by MaxWilson

I don't think fever fetishing is moot, it's just not something you can plan on in every game. From now on every time I find e.g. a Forest of a Thousand Streams, my first thought will still be "Oooh! I can clam now," but the second thought will be "And fever fetish!" Note that fever fetishing and then alchemizing the fire gems to pearls is slightly more nature-gem-intensive than clamming (4:1 instead of 3:1), but you're also not water-limited.

-Max

Yeah, but you can't base a strategy on finding a particular magic site recruitable. Oh geez ... sorry to have gone OT with this Arco discussion, everyone. I'll refuse to discuss it in this thread anymore .

[MaxWilson]

Originally Posted by vfb

Yeah, but you can't base a strategy on finding a particular magic site recruitable.

I never said you could. Or should. My idea of "strategy" says that you should have an early game mapped out, and know what you're capable of in the late game, but what you do in between and which late-game you aim for depends upon what happens early on. I'd rather know what it *means* to find an Enchantress site (clams!), or find garnet amazons (bloodstones!), or to find the Library of Time (Shadow Seers, teleporting Will of the Fates!), or to locate Caelum's capital (air gems!), or to start next to Niefelheim (research Ench-3 immediately!). Rigid nations are no fun IMHO.

-Max