[Tmoe]

Hey all. Having played the game for awhile I decided to throw my two cents into the blood hunting economics/cost efficiency. So I made some statistics about blood hunting as was asked in the original post of this thread.

Before I start it must be said that all test were concluded with Late Age Mitclan in provinces with 10 000+ population, with growth 3 to keep the population from falling under 5 000 (very unlikely except for the rare random events that kill population), with commanders patrolling the province so that any unrest was eliminated immediately (and building a lab if needed) and the slaves were pooled every turn to prevent overload and therefore loss of slaves.

The hunters covered here were 0-level, 1st level, 2nd level and 3rd level blood hunters. 0-level test subject was your basic indy scout. 1st level test subject was Mitclan priest. 2nd level test subject was Mitclan Priest King. 3rd level test subject was Mitclan King of Rain.

There were 12 test subjects present in each test. 6 without Saiguine Dousing Rod and 6 with the Rod. Placed as seen below:

Province 1 has 1 test subject.
Province 2 has 2 test subjects.
Province 3 has 3 test subjects.
Province 4 has 1 test subject with rod
Province 5 has 2 test subjects with rod
Province 6 has 3 test subjects with rod

Each test runs for 100 turns.


Results for 0-lvl hunters
1 x 0-lvl - average of 0,54 slaves per turn - 88 turns out of 100 0 slaves were found
2 x 0-lvl - average of 0,81 slaves per turn - 81 turns out of 100 0 slaves were found
3 x 0-lvl - average of 1,28 slaves per turn - 74 turns out of 100 0 slaves were found

1 x 0-lvl w rod - average of 0,14 slaves per turn - 96 turns out of 100 0 slaves were found
2 x 0-lvl w rod - average of 0,47 slaves per turn - 86 turns out of 100 0 slaves were found
3 x 0-lvl w rod - average of 1,03 slaves per turn - 80 turns out of 100 0 slaves were found


Results for 1-lvl hunters
1 x 1-lvl - average of 2,05 slaves per turn - 55 turns out of 100 0 slaves were found
2 x 1-lvl - average of 4,88 slaves per turn - 23 turns out of 100 0 slaves were found
3 x 1-lvl - average of 7,45 slaves per turn - 13 turns out of 100 0 slaves were found

1 x 1-lvl w rod - average of 4,93 slaves per turn - 11 turns out of 100 0 slaves were found
2 x 1-lvl w rod - average of 9,81 slaves per turn - 0 turns out of 100 0 slaves were found
3 x 1-lvl w rod - average of 15,00 slaves per turn - 0 turns out of 100 0 slaves were found


Results for 2-lvl hunters
1 x 2-lvl - average of 5,07 slaves per turn - 8 turns out of 100 0 slaves were found
2 x 2-lvl - average of 9,65 slaves per turn - 1 turns out of 100 0 slaves were found
3 x 2-lvl - average of 14,07 slaves per turn - 0 turns out of 100 0 slaves were found

1 x 2-lvl w rod - average of 6,33 slaves per turn - 0 turns out of 100 0 slaves were found
2 x 2-lvl w rod - average of 12,85 slaves per turn - 0 turns out of 100 0 slaves were found
3 x 2-lvl w rod - average of 18,77 slaves per turn - 0 turns out of 100 0 slaves were found


Results for 3-lvl hunters
1 x 3-lvl - average of 6,44 slaves per turn - 0 turns out of 100 0 slaves were found
2 x 3-lvl - average of 12,55 slaves per turn - 0 turns out of 100 0 slaves were found
3 x 3-lvl - average of 18,79 slaves per turn - 0 turns out of 100 0 slaves were found

1 x 3-lvl w rod - average of 7,37 slaves per turn - 0 turns out of 100 0 slaves were found
2 x 3-lvl w rod - average of 14,66 slaves per turn - 0 turns out of 100 0 slaves were found
3 x 3-lvl w rod - average of 21,67 slaves per turn - 0 turns out of 100 0 slaves were found

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I have the cost efficiency chart for each Age but I'll post it on a later date. Hope this helps.