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"You can just click pool in your lab."

Oh [censored]...

I am a geek for 12 years of mad gaming and...

I think I lost something.

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The only drawback of pooling slaves is that it nabs the slaves that your priests were planning on sacrificing as well, so you can't really use it if you're sacrificing heavily (shift-Z on your hunters becomes easier than manually restocking the priests pretty quickly)

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Yep, and if you ctrl select your blood hunters, it keeps the grouping so each turn the steps to milk each province are only:
right click province
left click any blood hunter
shift-z

Still a minor PITA, but MUCH less so.

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I do it the same way as Baalz, the micro is small enough that you probably wont notice it until you have 30+ hunters.

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I'm using Mictlan priests with divining rods in two 5k+ territories, and not really seeing the return I expected in blood slaves.

Should I just stack more priests + rods in there? It seems like the return is proportional to the blood magic. I'm trying to figure out the best return for my investment. If the return is linear growth instead of exponential growth, then I should be better off just stacking a bunch of B1 priests in the province, otherwise it seems like I should be putting the B2 priests in there.

Any advice would be great.

Jazzepi

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If I remember right now, the act of hunting raises unrest in itself. So you would have more unrest if you had a total of 8 bloodlevels on 8 priests instead of say 4 priests with rods for a effective 8 levels.

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Methel is correct, which is why blood hunting with scouts raises unrest...even though ten of them blood hunting often find nothing.

There are several checks which happen (unrest, pop level), but IIRC the one with regards to blood magic level is 40% X blood level chance of success, it also effects the amount of blood slaves you get (only +1 per level though). Generally 3 level one mages with dousing rods is the best way to go for cost/benefit, though that's not an option for everybody.

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Uh. Do dwarven hammers, and other forging style items, reduce the cost in blood slaves? I just realized this might not be the case.

Jazzepi

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Yes it does, not for contracts though. Or perhaps just not for the soul contract?

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So the lifelong protection and the devil summoning one both don't have their costs reduced by dwarven hammers?

Jazzepi