More questions about communion and relief...

[Chazar]

Communion has been discussed before, e.g. in Post#312848, but I have more and partly new questions:

• What are sensible ratios of masters, slaves and relief casters? i.e. is it plain stupid to have 4 masters, 10 slaves and 2 relief casters (of which one is also a communion master). Do the ratios change if a master summons earth power and thus grants reinvigoration to the slaves? (I can probably answer this particular ratio after the next hosting , so I am asking about general ratios that prevent slaves (with expensive slave matrices) from dying.)
• Will a relief caster occasionally cast more than the 5 scripted relief-spells? How can I encourage this? (Currently I merely place any nature3 caster at the back and pray that they keep casting relief. Maybe blinding the relief caster (by two eyes of aiming ) might convince him to cast battlefield-area spells?
• What happens if the relief caster is also a communion master? (i.e. those Ctis Nature-1, Astal-1 lizard mages, set to CommunionMaster,Relief,Relief,Relief,Relief) If this works, then two such relief caster could theoretically keep their communion slaves alive indefinitely, right?
• Contrary to the aforementioned thread, I encounter my slaves to continue spell casting vividly as scripted. Why? Does it make a difference that one of the masters usually casts Quickness? (Dont think so, since the slaves cast twice per round) Is it a difference between using Slave Matrices Items instead of casting Communion Slave?
• Do communion masters judge the strength of the enemy in a different way? The communion makes them more powerful, thus enemy armys would seem to be a lesser threat, thus convincing the communion master to refrain from gem using?
• Where do you place the slaves? My masters usually cast some buffs (Mistform, Invulnerability, Body Ethereal, Personal Luck,...) and since these are all transferred to the slaves, wouldnt it be sensible to place the slaves in the front as decoys?
• Are there still buggy items around whose powers transfers from masters to slaves in the presence of master/slave matrices? Or has this bug been fixed entirely by now?