>I think you guys might get a more productive discussion if you narrowed the scope of debate a bit...
Focus is good.
>For instance, how do the blood economies of Abysia compare between Dom 1 and Dom 2? How does the income difference between them look when scaled by the diminished Dom 2 gold income?
Now that's a complex issue! I'll give that some thought and start a new thread on it.
>How much worse are the patrolling side effects in Dom 2 than Dom 1?
I have found that lowering taxes supresses unrest totally until blood hunting gets moderately heavy. So you can get away with -no patrols- for some time. Longer if you spread out the hunters. In some ways this makes things faster than in Dom I. In Dom I it was hard to shut down taxes totally since each province provided more revenue. Since less gold is generated in Dom II, lowering one or two provinces to 0% seems inconsequential.
Patrols in Dom II seem to do more population damage. However since we are talking about 0% taxes, the gold/population is already being sacrificed.
Again, a complex issue. I'll do some testing and see if I can put together some coherent thoughts on the matter.
[ November 03, 2003, 23:41: Message edited by: apoger ]