* I got 700% bonus without tournaments. So, not necessary.
Then you never use your academy, pure from the world map you need to do +- 563 provincies or so. (500 * 9 / 8 = 563)
You also get a few most day's with neigborly help, a maximum of 3, at the same time the wonder you talk about are also draining massive amounts of bonus relics.
Off course it is possible, it just takes a humongous amount of time.
* I don't have problems with magic academy or crafting, so I don't see what you mean.
Off course if you don't use it at all you won't notice a problem. making spells cost runes and an acadmy making catalist spells can eat up to 252 of each of the 3 required runes in a 9 week cycle. there is no way on earth you can get even sligtly close to that with anything else than tournaments, no world map or neighbourly help chest can combat that loss.
* I can produce thousands of KP at a moments notice. I get them faster than I can spend them on swap threads. (Although that's more of a problem with swap threads, since I can't in good conscience claim that KP aren't *useful*.)
Thousands? wow I most likely can't even with a goods stock like this. and even if I can that production won't last long
* I have plenty of runes.
So do I,
I was talking about new wonders when a new chapter arrives.
Alll of this doesn't help when a new chapter arrives. runes from the brand new spanking wonders are "rare" there is a reason my sapiens and timewarp runes are still at the bottom of the list.
I have plenty of these rewards, with the possible exception of even more KP to dump into AWs. What I don't have is diamonds.
Wishing wells:
* take up space in your city
* expire after a time
* have limited opportunities to acquire
* don't produce diamonds all that often
That they don't produce diamonds all that often is a huge misconception.
Yes they do take up space, if you want to farm diamonds you need to reserve some space and time. this is the thing the spire doenst ask from you, but the diamond generation with effort can be huge!
And then I mean huge I really mean huge.
This is the diamond production of less than a month on 1 of my accounts, this is on the dutch server so no nastty multi server tricks to farm diamonds on other servers from the same country and then spend it on 1. it is not uncommon to aquire more than 300 diamonds on a day. there are some crappy day's but also lucky days with 450 diamonds as a record for me.
If you place 1 wishing well it goes nowhere but when you place a whole bunch it goes fast.
A single wishing well on it's life span assuming you harvest as efficient as possible produces approximately just under 500 diamonds.
Except for the Unique Set, which I don't need, those other prizes are exactly the things I'm short of. I don't have a lot of magic buildings, spell fragments, or catalyst spells. They are things I can actually use.
So, maybe drop (or change) the unique set and maybe add some KP, but please don't take away the diamonds.
Oh, and definitely change the fighting difficulty. Experienced players should not be stuck as much as they are.