If you have too many turns where some of your skill actually fails to produce results because you cannot create enough mana to match, that's a pretty big inefficiency.
I was wondering why I never ever am in a situation where I never can't create enough mana to match my skill. The opposite in fact despite my best efforts my gold and mana keep growing beyond my planned buffer. Then I get pissed and blow a ton of gold rush buy stuff that frankly doesn't help a lot lol.
I think the answer is given in the fact you say you blow a high ton of mana to soften a tough opponent. That's extremely inefficent use.
It also explains why you said you cast spells galore yet lean heavily into mana.
Logically that isn't possible . If you Lean heavily into mana your skill is low so how much mana can you use?
I see now you are wasting tons of mana with extremely low skill to try to win. Throwing away tons of mana in losing fights in tactical combat That's bad play no offense.
Here again your mindset has trapped you. If you had focused more on skill you could more efficiently win such battles.
This is the virtuous cycle I keep talking about that you fail to understand. Your logic is fine as it goes.. but only for one step.
If you're at a point where a heavy investment in skill still takes you 4-5 turns per point, that's a judgement call. You will be sacrificing 4-5 turns of that much mana and not receive ANY noticeable results, and will gain a point of skill. Maybe that's worth it, but not if you don't actually use that point of skill constantly.
You seemed to be trapped in the mindset of 1 increase skill doesn't speed up overland spell by 1 turn. But I'm 100% sure you can't model the impact of that over time. How about 5? 10?
Besides 5 additional skill might or might not help but I guarantee you the additional mana say on top of a reserve of 10k you get instead of skill won't matter one whit if you don't have skill to use it!
I was exaggerating here, just trying to point out the ingame potential of mana despite high skill.
I think for a moment you grasped what I was saying. I set this to be as obvious as possible and yet you felt need to defend this lol. I suggest you reconsider your thinking.
Mana is always useful even if your skill is low. Skill is NOT useful if you aren't producing/converting enough mana to reach it.
Last attempt. Mana is not always useful even if skill is low. In fact it almost always never is. What use is 10000 mana if you only on 10 skill. Something you conceded already is bad
The next sentence is correct of course but moot because a decent player is using his skill efficiently so the gain from him using his superior skill to cast spells and win battles always leads to excess mana/gold that is strictly ahead of his skill.
It puzzled me for a long time why you kept saying your skill is higher than your mana production. It feels like a theorical thing that might happen but never does.
But then now I know you just play badly.
Let me make sure we're talking clear. Are you telling me that maintaining skill so high I can't actually use half of it due to having no mana/gold is actually a good idea?
Lol you love to ask obvious q's. The answer is no of course. I mean it's fine if some turns you don't use all of it but most turns you should.
Your problem is you don't realise that if you play well you will never reach that situation!
No. It's likely not . I used to play heavy skill. It took me growing up and getting more analytical to remember the old 4x Addage. Resources unspent are resources wasted.
Ironically this is the same realization that made me realize I should t keep so much reserves.
You do realize resources unspent are resources wasted is EXACTLY why having 2ok mana is dumb ...
If I spend on skill that I cannot utilize because I have no mana or gold, then I wasted on skill. And if I'm aggressively attacking, then 1/4 on skill seems to be enough that I end every couple turns without gold or mana, but with some juicy results.
I repeat you should never run into a situation where you have skill you cannot utilize.
Sure if you crazy enough to from day 1 just do skill you will run into that situation.
I can rule out the possibly you really literally just throw power into skill a lot because you "lean heavy into mana most of game".
So what's happening here? Why with so low skill which puts a huge cap on mana expenditure are you constantly moaning abt skill you can't use?
Simple you just playing badly to the point your skill isn't helping you expand . If say with 10 skill you waste it losing 10 fights costing 10*10 skill I can see why you run out of mana!
Of course if you had say 15 or 25 skill you. Might have did the fight with far fewer mana and/or win faster so you benefit faster from city or node