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<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">I think even that Last remark doesn't weaken your argument. IMV Temples also represents the local clergy, who helps your preachers to fulfill their mission (gathering fidels for the ceremonies, etc.). I think preaching should always be done outdoors, and blood sacrifices indoors. After all, you can preach outside a castle you besiege, and can't perform sacrifices in the same situation.

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<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">A 15K province can be patrol-hunted for minimal tax loss, since you don't need to drop taxes to hunt there </font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Hmm, I don't remember exact formula from the top of my head, but I though that unrest generated by bloodhunters is independent of province population. I remeber for sure that the number of slaves gathered are certanly independent of population, as long as it larger than 5000. Are you saying it is not so?

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<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">The number of slaves is, indeed, independent of the population, as long as it is greater than 5K. The unrest generated, and therefore, kills by patrolling, are also independent of the population.

However, the population replenishment rate is NOT independent of the population: It is a percentage of the existing population that depends on your level of Growth scale. Obviously, if you are not hunting under growth scale, savaging the province with patrolled hunting is either a cost of business, or not acceptable, and therefore not done, in which case you should not hunt such provinces since you'd have to drop taxes.

In addition, valuable provinces are often targets for castles: As such, your blood hunters will be protected from random attack by the castle while they hunt, so your entire blood economy doesn't get annihilated in a single series of raids.

Re: Blood Slave/magic Questions
 

<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">The number of slaves is, indeed, independent of the population, as long as it is greater than 5K. The unrest generated, and therefore, kills by patrolling, are also independent of the population.

However, the population replenishment rate is NOT independent of the population: It is a percentage of the existing population that depends on your level of Growth scale. Obviously, if you are not hunting under growth scale, savaging the province with patrolled hunting is either a cost of business, or not acceptable, and therefore not done, in which case you should not hunt such provinces since you'd have to drop taxes.

</font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana"><nod> That's what I thought.

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What I don't understand is why it matters if the population of a province is stable due to growth scale or not. Aren't you losing the same amount of population and therefore income potential regardless? I mean if you didn't hunt the province would grow...

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That's the kind of attitude which results in clear-cutting forests, Mr. White. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif