Board Thread:Troubleshooting/@comment-99.250.104.141-20160608020417/@comment-4974000-20171112141342

I agree it would be great if you could use your coins for rubies, but coins don't have to be useless. You can run down your coins HARD if you work at it. I keep an ongoing set of orders going for exchange items, so I am never out of trading items anymore - I try to keep at least a dozen on hand of each. (Remember, a single dragonfly or cotton will set you back nearly 10,000 coins between the three stones and the crafting of the bird/fan, and some collections need four of them). According to my trophy counter I've managed to spend over 800,000 coins so far.

There are at least three advantages to having an ongoing supply of exchange items. Firstly, if you need to reciprocate a collection item to someone and they don't have anything on their wishlist that you have, you can still give them something of value. Secondly, most of us accumulate enough collectables to redeem extra copies of collections, and get extra helpers or talismans in the process, which you're a lot more likely to do if you already have them on hand - indirectly, that does save you rubies. And thirdly, if you're using a time-limited talisman, you don't want to waste time crafting items. You want to be able to clear the collection and have the next challenge behind it available to choose from. (I speak from experience - today I was using Seeker's Star and at one point *all* my open challenges were waiting for anomalies - the pain!).

Plus, you can craft *really* useful things things like the Seeker's Star or the Fire Crystal. Even if you have to buy some of the diagrams/winding keys with rubies to use in conjunction with the coins, it still works out considerably cheaper than buying the item direct.

I do agree that coins are pretty useless early in the game (although I did manage to run out of coins completely at one point after three collections in a row demanding four dragonflies/cotton!), but later on they can certainly be used to your advantage. They don't just have to sit there doing nothing.