Revamped blood collection?
 

Now that the game's in release, can someone talk about how revamped blood collection works? I've rarely ever played blood nations because of the micromanagement and gave it a go last night. It wasn't so bad, but one thing I hated was that pooling virgins meant that you had to manually reassign virgins to each sacrificing priest who was in a temple that also had a lab. That's not so bad initially but when you have double-digit temples, it's a headache.

How does it work now?

Re: Revamped blood collection?
 

Has it been revamped? I remember asking but I never got an answer.

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One assumes (one PRAYS) that when they say reduced micromanagement, they mean blood as well.

And I seem to recall it being mentioned somewhere in an earlier thread as seeing a revamp.

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I haven't heard of that change. I haven't checked blood nations yet, though. I'll test quickly.

One way micromanagement was reduced is auto-taxation. It can be turned on/off very easily. I doubt it anticipates what unrest the province will have next turn, so it mightn't help much.

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Hasn't changed. I noticed this, though:

http://www.shrapnelcommunity.com/thr...51203-temp.jpg

Only one message per province.

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In my opinion, this problem make playing Mictlan really hard on large map. When you have to give blood slave to 30 priest(after a great use of virgin), 2 times... Argl...

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A small "Lock" icon/toggle/checkbox next to the gem box on commanders would help tremendously. Simply check the lock and gems/slaves of the given commander are ignored when pooling. Maybe in a future patch?

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I agree... this is especially helpful for large maps.
In dominions_2 I usually pool earth, fire, astral and blood gems since an item or action brings them into the inventory of commanders. Thus I have to pool gems first and then redistribute gems on the front lines which takes a good chunk of time on the large maps.

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Very good idea. With a special command like the lock, we should give order to a general to resupply his gems automatically when he is in a province with a laboratory.

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Ack! Consolidating messages like this has made blood collection worse! Did nobody realize that? Before, I could click M for messages, then "go to commander" for each commander that collected blood slaves. Now, I can't even do that. The microing for blood hunting has just been exasperated, lol. I have to wonder if anyone developing/testing plays Mictlan... EVER.

Well, looking on the bright side, I'll hope that one day this _will_ get taken care of. To be honest, I'd rather Mictlan not even exist than this. At least there are a million other nations for me to play that don't have this issue.

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