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You can sell resources to AI sovereigns for really good prices. For example, you can sell Crystals for 5-12 Gildar per piece. So Crystal Quarry really gives 5-12 Gildar per season. Imho overpowered.
I think not, you are effectively boosting the AI's ability to pump out mage troops, also as I noted you can only sell to them when they have less than 50 crystals (or so).
Sincerely
~ Kongdej
My experience: yesterday I sold 30 crystals to Ythril for 360 gildar in season 37. Ythril hasn't any Magic technologies. It specializes on Warfare. I can recruit champions, buy horses, rush pioneers for 360 gildar. Today I loaded save before selling crystals to Ythril. It offers me only 180 gildar for 30 crystals. It seems it is bug. Anyway 180 gildar is too much.
I can much easier come up with 180 gildar than 30 crystals. But that said that example is fantastic, since yithril should not care as much about crystal since he usually wants iron and warfare stuff.
But I dunno, I like that you can trade with the AI, Although the current system is bugged (Not this part) if you could not sell crystals, iron, technology or whatever it would make diplomacy terribly boring.
Sincerely
~ Kongdej
think not, you are effectively boosting the AI's ability to pump out mage troops, also as I noted you can only sell to them when they have less than 50 crystals (or so).
Sincerely ~ Kongdej
Ythril may not be able to makes mages
But they can make some very nivce guardian statues - You sell them the rope ....
Yea, was what I was going at, but Yithril should value crystals in a lower scale than say, pariden... If you trade 50 crystals to pariden, its your own fault when she equips her army with lightning-rods 
Sincerely
~ Kongdej
It's still a very good trade in your favor. The AI can pump out as many mage troops as it wants...but with the gold you've obtained, you've juggernauted your heroes that will easily dispatch their mage troops.
Now I'm not saying there is necessarily a problem with the trade ratio. I'm saying there is a problem with troop weakness and hero strength.
Also, agreed, different factions should value resources differently, depending on the strategy they are trying to achieve.
AI should also have the ability to adapt their primary strategy if their resource base doesn't warrent it's strength. This should change their trade values to coincide with there new agenda.
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