Here's a little cheat for everyone struggling with the difficulty curve. It's slow and very grindy, but if you hold down Tab until "Open Workshop" appears on the screen and press enter, a screen will show up with things to craft, all of which have NaN for every stat. You'll go through the battle with unlimited resources after crafting, and will receive the skillpoint and recipes that come with victory, but it won't count the battle as having been completed, allowing you to grind for skillpoints
So, with all of the current updates and with the number of gems that I have (63,171. I also have all 6 faction trophies) Fairies are actually the most productive faction for me.
Say you have 4 clicker assistants; Does that counts as four clicks per second each with 5% or one click with 20%? The reason I ask this is because of Faction Coins.
It is important to make sure that your auto sell keeps up with your production and vice versa. If you leave it for a day and come back to several thousand items that are unsold, that's money lost, but if you don't have enough supply to make sure you're always selling, that too is money lost.
For a game that's still relatively early in development, it's actually pretty decent. Something I would like to see is the ability to pay very high amounts of gold for territory.
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