Revamped blood collection?

[Endoperez]

Hasn't changed. I noticed this, though:



Only one message per province.

[Tyrian]

In my opinion, this problem make playing Mictlan really hard on large map. When you have to give blood slave to 30 priest(after a great use of virgin), 2 times... Argl...

[Ballbarian]

A small "Lock" icon/toggle/checkbox next to the gem box on commanders would help tremendously. Simply check the lock and gems/slaves of the given commander are ignored when pooling. Maybe in a future patch?

[NTJedi]

Ballbarian said:
A small "Lock" icon/toggle/checkbox next to the gem box on commanders would help tremendously. Simply check the lock and gems/slaves of the given commander are ignored when pooling. Maybe in a future patch?

I agree... this is especially helpful for large maps.
In dominions_2 I usually pool earth, fire, astral and blood gems since an item or action brings them into the inventory of commanders. Thus I have to pool gems first and then redistribute gems on the front lines which takes a good chunk of time on the large maps.

[Tyrian]

Very good idea. With a special command like the lock, we should give order to a general to resupply his gems automatically when he is in a province with a laboratory.

[BigJMoney]

Ack! Consolidating messages like this has made blood collection worse! Did nobody realize that? Before, I could click M for messages, then "go to commander" for each commander that collected blood slaves. Now, I can't even do that. The microing for blood hunting has just been exasperated, lol. I have to wonder if anyone developing/testing plays Mictlan... EVER.

Well, looking on the bright side, I'll hope that one day this _will_ get taken care of. To be honest, I'd rather Mictlan not even exist than this. At least there are a million other nations for me to play that don't have this issue.

=$= Big J Money =$=

[JaydedOne]

*smile* Let's not get too hyperbolic there, J. But I agree that it's a huge pain to, as a Mictlan player, take all of those collected slaves, pool them, and then have to redistribute to your sacrificing folks.

A lock toggle would be HUGELY helpful. If there's any way we can implement that in a patch, that'd be the singlemost helpful thing for getting me to play blood nations in larger multi-player games. Otherwise, the monotony of the management KILLS me.

[Graeme Dice]

JaydedOne said:
*smile* Let's not get too hyperbolic there, J. But I agree that it's a huge pain to, as a Mictlan player, take all of those collected slaves, pool them, and then have to redistribute to your sacrificing folks.

Except that you don't. You only collect slaves from those priests that are hunting by pressing 'Z' when their control grop is selected, and never actually use the pool slaves option.

A lock toggle would be HUGELY helpful.

Yes, it would be greatly appreciated.

If there's any way we can implement that in a patch, that'd be the singlemost helpful thing for getting me to play blood nations in larger multi-player games. Otherwise, the monotony of the management KILLS me.

Mictlan is the only nation that ever wants to put blood slaves on its commanders. (Besides the one or two times per game that you might give a demonbred a couple of slaves to cast hellfire.) Every other nation can simply pool slaves.

[Graeme Dice]

BigJMoney said:
Now, I can't even do that. The microing for blood hunting has just been exasperated, lol. I have to wonder if anyone developing/testing plays Mictlan... EVER.

I assume that they do, since I can't imagine that anyone would want the horrible micromanagement that you just described. The way you blood hunt with Mictlan is you take a province, put a lab and three priests with dousing rods in it. You set these three priests up as a control group. You then go around between the three or four provinces that are set up for blood hunting, click on the priest groups and press 'Z'.