Re: How blood sacrifice is supposed to works
Looks to me like you ran into the dominion spreading "irregularity".
Do you have savegames available from those turns? You may check if you, instead of rising dominion in the neighbouring provinces, raised it in some far away province with a "neighbouring" number.
This irregular spreading of dominion has been reported by some other players, and I have seen it lately as well. I suspect that this effect may also cause the turn-2 dominion fluctuations other have reported.
If a dev is interested in the save game - I have 2 available ...
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As for AI the most effective work around to this problem so far is to simply use an American instead, they tend to put up a bit more of a fight than your average Artificial Idiot.
... James McGuigan on rec.games.computer.stars somewhen back in 1998 ...
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