

If I had to guess, the additions are not because the antique dealer is wildly successful - rather the opposite where they feel they need to add a bigger carrot to it to make people actually use it.Īs for updated several times, I wasn't aware of such - but I quit for a while just as antique dealer was hitting beta. The new items will at least give some chase aspects to it though. I've fed it with all kinds of junk but bought very little from it (sleigh builders when they show up once every two weeks or something like that, 2 pillar upgrades in one of my cities that had been running a level 5 pillar). Well mostly I've found the antique dealer to be not that useful so far. There is no way it will be coming up every day, there is no way to get Gems besides selling valuable items and we all have limited access to those if we aren't spending diamonds constantly and if someone wants to do that, they can sail that ship, but I won't be a crew mate for that voyage. It's a very efficient building but it has so many aspects in its acquisition, placement, cost and availability that keep it from being properly OP. Having lots of SoK in your city comes at a cost of not having the most efficient layout, have a look around and see how many players have placed their 40+ SoK without it being awkward and irregular, I haven't seen one yet. Just as the cost of obtaining Greater Runestones after the initial 15 playthroughs, is way too much for most players to even consider (time, not finishing japanese, it being utterly stupid).

No, because the cost, not of gems alone, is significant.

This choice will be the same for nearly every player, by now most of us will have sold all the valuable items and be slowly accumulating more to sell from one of the many, but unpredictable sources. I've managed to get 9 fully upgraded Cider Mills, do I keep trying to get these or do I go for SoK. I personally like to get Cherry gardens from AD, if I decide I want Lvl 2 SoK too then something has to give, either I wait longer for Cherry Garden pieces or SoK upgrade. You have to sacrifice something else you may want to buy further down the line. What makes this a good move is the cost/benefit ratio of it only being available from AD. The greater runestone has been available for a year now, in that time you could have won no more than 10 unless you were prepared to spend a stupid amount of diamonds. This is a good improvement, there is no way it is overpowered. It got to the point I was never building them. Now they are useful to everyone again and desirable. The SoK were only useful to those of us that had lots of space and no better buildings to place.
