Abysia and Death Scale

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Abysia seems to be one of the better choices of a race with which to take death scale since your income and supplies are not directly affected by death and growth.

However I find that taking death still kills all my population and this has a very negative effect on income long-term. Also, once the population has died, it becomes difficult to do blood hunting.

I can somewhat make up the income shortfall by alchemy with all of my fire gems. But even with alchemy, I still have a hard time coming up with enough money for all the expensive mages and priests. And this is no solution for the blood shortage.

Is Abysia's death-resistance just interesting flavor, but not really usable? Or is there a trick I am missing