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Originally Posted by Immaculate
So the questions are:
1) Does that matter? I mean, its not like (usually) we need the gold or resources...
2) If it DOES matter, at what point does it become critical?
3) If it DOES matter, should one patrol to off-set it?
4) If it DOESN'T matter, why not use much more then 3 blood hunters per province?
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1. Yes. The manual details the blood hunting mechanics, and they are correct as far as I know. (page 69)
2. Unrest increases the chance of a failed blood hunting check. So that doesn't mean less slaves that turn, it means no slaves at all.
Unrest of 40 gives a 10% chance of failure (from the manual formula). So I'd guess somewhere around that level of unrest is probably where it starts to get critical. (since 10% chances tend to happen more than 10% of the time in Dominions
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3. Patrolling to reduce unrest is always a call that needs to be made, and usually has a lot to do with various factors.
a) What the growth scales of the province is. (which is not necessarily what your national growth scales are)
b) The population level of the province. If it is between 4-5k, then patrolling will likely send the population below 4k pretty quickly (with no growth scale) at which point you will start noticing a lot more failed blood hunting turns.
c) The availability of cheap effective patrollers. You will already be getting zero or minimum income from blood hunting provinces. And if you are then also having to pay 100+ upkeep per turn for the patrollers, then it quickly starts to hurt your economy.
So while on the one hand patrolling helps keep the blood slaves flowing by preventing unrest from building up, on the other hand patrolling to reduce unrest also kills population. So at least in my experience, it is never a case of you should always patrol, or you should never patrol, as each nation, game, and indeed province needs to be considered separately before deciding to patrol or not.
4. If you could just stack as many hunters into a province as you like without consequence, then blood hunting would become easy to abuse. Hence the mechanics that are in place to prevent that. 3 hunters is considered a good number to bring in a decent number of slaves, while also not letting unrest get out of control (if the tax rate is 0%)