Another thought occurred to me about the eight part division of Green. People at the higher end of that distribution will churn through a lot of cultivation resources if they max out their spirit stone usage. Like, somebody at the Formation stage would go through 6 green stones a week, or 3000 red spirit stones in value. Twelve thousand plus red spirit stones a month... that can't possibly be sustainable.
Possible consequences:
(1) Green cultivators feel the pinch on cultivation resources in a way that we haven't so far. Even if you aren't Ling Qi, pill machine mogul, you can max out your spirit stone usage at late yellow by taking one sect mission every two or three weeks. If sect mission payouts increase linearly with difficulty (which seems to be how it is), that's not going to hold up at Green.
As heated as the fighting has been in the Outer Sect, the incentives line up to more strongly encourage fighting in the Inner Sect, as more resources turn into faster cultivation speed more directly. Unless the Elders clamp down on things, of course.
(2) If you aren't maxing out your stones every week then you have a pretty strong incentive to surge your spirit stone usage because the first one is only half as effective. Much better to have one week where you use your max and several weeks with no green stones than to just use one green stone at half effectiveness whenever you pick one up. Related point: using green stones at all in Early Green is kind of a waste.
Having access to virtual stones would remove this as an issue.
(3) If you are surging your green spirit stone usage in order to squeeze max value out of them, then medication that procs bonus rolls will be disproportionately valuable to you. Way more so than bonus dice. I don't think we've ever seen bonus roll meds for sale. If we ever do see a market for bonus roll meds that work for Greens I would expect it to be quite pricey.
