Blood Slave/magic Questions

Taqwus · #1 May 19th, 2004, 06:38 PM

There's also a rare wizard academy sort of site which gives a blood slave per turn, and one of the Demon Lords automatically attracts blood slaves and arrow fodder. Or you could wish for blood slaves...

Norfleet · #2 May 19th, 2004, 10:00 PM

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Originally posted by Pocus:
I have to backup (or is it bake up ) Sunray on the issue. If one blood slave sacrifice is supposed to be equivalent in power of the dominions spread of one temple, then, unless I have been totally unlucky during several tests, and in at least a pbem as Abysia, I must say there is a bug in the formula. The effect is much lower than expected.

Do the check yourself, you will see.

I don't think you truly comprehend the awesome might of blood sacrifices on dominion spreading. Firstly, for maximum effect, you need strong dominion strength: Build a lot of temples, or take high dominion at creation.

Secondly, to avoid having the effect buried in background noise....sacrifice a *LOT* of blood slaves. In most of my Mictlan games, I generally drown my opponent's dominion in a sea of blood well before I ever face him, sometimes before I ever meet him, as my dominion strength can hit 10 in places 3 provinces out from the nearest border. I don't think you properly appreciate the power of the Sea of Blood.

LintMan · #3 May 19th, 2004, 10:18 PM

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Originally posted by Norfleet:
I don't think you truly comprehend the awesome might of blood sacrifices on dominion spreading. Firstly, for maximum effect, you need strong dominion strength: Build a lot of temples, or take high dominion at creation.

Secondly, to avoid having the effect buried in background noise....sacrifice a *LOT* of blood slaves. In most of my Mictlan games, I generally drown my opponent's dominion in a sea of blood well before I ever face him, sometimes before I ever meet him, as my dominion strength can hit 10 in places 3 provinces out from the nearest border. I don't think you properly appreciate the power of the Sea of Blood.

Wow. Care to elaborate? How many is a lot? How many slaves are you sacrificing per turn nationwide? On a given front, do you use multiple sacrificers in multiple provinces? What level priests do you use?

Secondly, is it worth using all those slaves to do that, rather than, say, summoning demons or forging soul contracts? Or are you swimming in enough blood slaves to do both?

Graeme Dice · #4 May 20th, 2004, 01:51 AM

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Originally posted by Norfleet:
I don't think you properly appreciate the power of the Sea of Blood.

What I'm wondering is about how many searchers and patrollers do you like to put in a given province per thousand population? I'm never quite sure just how much the deaths from patrolling are offset by the growth scale.

Stormbinder · #5 May 20th, 2004, 03:34 AM

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Originally posted by Graeme Dice:

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Originally posted by Norfleet:
I don't think you properly appreciate the power of the Sea of Blood.

What I'm wondering is about how many searchers and patrollers do you like to put in a given province per thousand population? I'm never quite sure just how much the deaths from patrolling are offset by the growth scale.

Number of searchers don't have much to do with number of population in bloodhunted province. As long as population is larger than 5000 it is irrelivent. The number of slaves produced by your sercahers AND unrest generated by them will still be the same. I always try to choose the least income-wise province from 5000-6000 pop range, to give some breathing space for population loss due to bloodhunting and patrolling, while avoiding crippling more populated and rich provinces.

Not sure about patrollers though.

Graeme Dice · #6 May 20th, 2004, 04:06 AM

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Originally posted by Stormbinder:
I always try to choose the least income-wise province from 5000-6000 pop range, to give some breathing space for population loss due to bloodhunting and patrolling, while avoiding crippling more populated and rich provinces.

The question is really about the interplay between the growth scale, unrest generated by bloodhunting, and population death caused by patrollers. There is likely to be some ideal combination that gives you the most benefits here.

Stormbinder · #7 May 21st, 2004, 04:41 AM

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Originally posted by Graeme Dice:

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Originally posted by Stormbinder:
I always try to choose the least income-wise province from 5000-6000 pop range, to give some breathing space for population loss due to bloodhunting and patrolling, while avoiding crippling more populated and rich provinces.

The question is really about the interplay between the growth scale, unrest generated by bloodhunting, and population death caused by patrollers. There is likely to be some ideal combination that gives you the most benefits here.

Perhaps. But I was answering the "per thousand " part of your question, since whatver that ideal combination would be the number of population in the province is not part of it, since most efficient bloodhunting provinces would still be at 5K-6/7K population range, no matter how many searchers and partollers you have there and what your growth scale is (unless you took high death scale which may not be very good for bloodhunting purposes).