Evil Napkin said:It's weird...
I did this once with about 6 bags of salt (because I didn't realize you only needed one) and nothing happened. I reloaded and dumped my qualis gem via inventory and just tossing it onto the ground to be lost forever. And than the trick worked and I got everything!
But I was short one gem so I've done some further testing and even recreated the above scenario and it's not working now.
I even tried a new character and all I get is the troops. Can this only be done once and that's it?
BTW: I've been playing the game a bunch straight up and finally decided to start reading the forums and I've been reading about all these tricks and strategies to employ! I had to reg though to ask about this though.
You don't get any renown/cash/gems with the salt trick as of version/patch 2.03. Only fancy troops.