My Lands: Black Gem Hunting

I thought some of the newer or lower ranked players should be aware of this...

I recently changed my science study from domain to upgrading warriors, having some 183,000 points and only needing 30k for the upgrade I was committed to it even when advised that I would lose 'some' points by changing oh well I thought I'll still have a 100k at least.. WRONG by changing I lost 153k study points.. over a weeks worth of study... Now that is not only unfair but is primarily designed to get you to buy BG

But wait it gets worse... Having the warrior upgrade complete I then went to upgrade the units and here's the statistics required...

Corn 18,376
Iron 68,910
Idle workers 45,940

In my capital I have a pop of nearly 6k, and its overcrowded it has only 2,400 idle workers.... How big a city would you need to have nearly 46 thousand people idle? Lets not even consider how much 69,000 iron is going to cost..

Anyone else here think this game is getting very very suspicious?

Not sure why you think losing science makes you buy BG? I surely wish you could buy science pts for BG more! But I'm sure a message comes up saying you will lose the excess pts. Basically anything you have accrued over the new science cost, is lost.

As to the cost of upgrading the units see - http://mlgame.co.uk/wiki/Wiki.jsp?page=Science specifically -

Cost of upgrade depends on Warriors quantity – the more Warriors you already have the higher cost of their upgrade will be. All Warriors in all your domains, missions, training buildings and Resurrectors will be considered at the upgrade cost. If you don’t have any Warriors the upgrade will cost nothing.

The reason your upgrade cost is so high is you have accumulated alot of warriors before studying this level for them. It is a shame more mentors don't tell their apprentices (as I do) to not take the troops from quest rewards until they have studied level 3 of them - for this reason Whatever level your science is when you accept the reward - is what level troops you get from it.

Unfortunately your only ways forward are to sacrifice some warriors or save up, till you can afford the upgrade.