Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-25491026-20141007171738

As I was looking around on Ethereal Island, I noticed that I could (well, when I'm able to get a monster there) exchange 30,000 shards for 1 diamond. I thought, "Oh, that will come in handy; when I finally get some monsters there." And, unfortunately, I do not how hard (or easy) it is to gather shards.

Anyway, I also noticed that I could exchange 500,000 coins for 50 shards! "Piece of cake! I could just exchange money into shards, then the shards into diamonds! Yay! More for me!"

Uh, no. I did some figuring and found out that it is basically impossible.

500,000 coins into 50 shards=easy. But how many times would I have to do that to get to 30,000 shards for 1 diamond? 600 times (30,000/50=600). So, 500,000x600=300,000,000. I would have to collect 300 million coins to exchange for 1 diamond. Sucks.

What do you think about this? And for us beginners who doesn't have any monsters on Ethereal Island yet, how hard is it to get shards? 