Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-10090661-20130826034441/@comment-10090661-20130908030614

@Mechlord: The challenge is to try and get everything without or cheating, and for the Island Quests, that's pretty darn difficult. If you can complete them without gems or cheating (adding strangers as neighbours and so on) then you really have something to brag about.

If I want an honest game, but don't want to set myself the challenge of trying to do it without gems I haven't earned, then I can just buy thousands of gems, because I am a working adult and I have the budget.

So, what's the point of having so many gems?