Faerun - started

[Huzurdaddi]

Looks like we are playing on a Rich settings. That was not part of the 1st post.

Wish I had known that when I was selecting nations. I suppose it's ok though.

[Huzurdaddi]

Wow. After playing around with rich settings wish I was playing Atlantis, or R'lyegh, or Caelum ( although they have a "problem" that you don't see too often, they can't make leaders fast enough at the start ).

[Aku]

Sorry about that, the rich world should of been part of first post but boron and i intended for the game to be rich world for more national troops.

[Boron]

Sorry about forgetting the rich world.
At least it is not as bad as if i would have forgotten to state that we play with vh research.
Since the effect of rich world is for every nation the same because it is just a simple multiplier (gold+resources x1.5) it luckily doesn't do much damage imho .

Now happy killing,slaughtering and murdering at all

[Catquiet]

Boron said:

Since the effect of rich world is for every nation the same because it is just a simple multiplier (gold+resources x1.5) it luckily doesn't do much damage imho .

Except to the Ermorian utopia, where we have abandoned capitalist greed and recycle old troops instead of stripping the land of its precious resources.

[Huzurdaddi]

Boron said:
Sorry about forgetting the rich world.
At least it is not as bad as if i would have forgotten to state that we play with vh research.
Since the effect of rich world is for every nation the same because it is just a simple multiplier (gold+resources x1.5) it luckily doesn't do much damage imho .

Now happy killing,slaughtering and murdering at all

That's not correct. It screws blood nations somewhat badly, actually. Blood hunting is a method of converting gold into a type of gem ( blood ) which is then converted into ( generally ) some type of troop.

This changes the ratios.

Oh and let me add Abysia to the list of nations I wish I was playing. Yes I know that they are a blood nation and thus somewhat screwed. However SC's mod really buffs them ( a total suprize to me ) and with the Rich settings they can take total advanatge of this buffing. HC provinces are no match for them by turn 3 ( regardless of pretender, you can take a Rainbow and still be crushing HC on turn 3, yokies).

[Jurri]

I always thought blood nations benefited immensely from a rich setting. Consider: you need less provinces producing gold to support the same amount of blood hunters, therefore you can field more of them. (Generally, a province used for blood hunting gives much more benefit than one used for gold, right? Maybe not under Cherry mod, though.)

[Huzurdaddi]

Jurri,

In short you are wrong. As I explained blood hunting converts gold into gems. Now it costs more gold to buy a blood slave.

The only way to blood hunt efficiently in a rich world is the Mictlan way, ie: 100% taxes with heavy patrolling. However most nations are not setup, ie: do not have access to cheap patrollers, to patrol efficiently. Blood hunting with 0% taxes is much less effecient on a rich setting. The end result is that I would not have played a blood nation had I known that we were going to play a rich map.

On and one more note wrt. to Boron's note that it affects all nations equally it doesn't. The nations I noted above have a number of troops with a high gold/resource ratio. This allows them to take advanatge of the rich settings right away. There may be other nations that can do it as well I have not gone through them all.