Talk:Mine/@comment-74.76.191.178-20130611113158/@comment-172.9.249.12-20130612040106

I think the mini-mine isn't that bad. The good part is that they are available for coins. You can essentially get 5 diamonds a day for a mere 2.5 million, provided you have all 5 islands.

The mini-mine also allows a Coin to Diamond exchange rate, (1 diamond : 125k coins), because buying one for 500k gives you a diamond right off the bat. Sell that for 375k, and repeat to get more diamonds. It may be a steeper exchange rate than the 50 diamonds for 1 million coins (20k coins: 1 diamond), but it's truthfully better than nothing. Besides, how many games do you see allow (whether intentionally or not) a common currency exchanged for premium currency? Anyway, when you have many developed islands together netting you perhaps a million or two in a matter of a few hours, you can actually make easy diamonds in very little time (provided you want to exchange your coins for diamonds).

I wouldn't mind seeing the original Mine return though. I started playing in May, so I wasn't able to get them. 273 diamonds saved for the chance that they return.