[Norfleet]

Originally posted by PhilD:
If you go the Scout way for your hunting, then you can choose to have only 1-2 hunters per province, and can get by with maybe 80% taxes; but then, you'll have to micromanage your harvest, most likely. Also, scouts don't benefit from Sanguine Dousing Rods like blood mages do, so your hunting will be slower and more erratic.

Well, according to Saber Cherry, a blood-1 hunter without an SDR hunts about as well as 2 scouts. With an SDR, a blood-1 mage hunts about as well as 4 scouts. A scout costs $20. If you have a blood mage that costs less than $40, or a blood mage that is sacred, has an SDR, and costs less than $80, you'll do better than scout hunting, if you neglect the cost of the SDR. If you do NOT have a blood mage that's really cheap, blood hunting with scouts is actually the most economical, goldwise. Micromanagement wise....well, building a lab anywhere you want to hunt is a fixed cost.