Blood Slave/magic Questions

[Norfleet]

Originally posted by Graeme Dice:
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.

One fully loaded, slightly experienced Tribal King(65 slaves) can reliably and completely control unrest for two SDR hunters. A newbie(50) TK sometimes loses control in spikes.

With growth-2, I can sustain a relatively stable population with one patrolling Tribal King and two SDR-equipped Mictlan Priests, in a province of > 15K pop, since the province grows at about 600 people per turn, and the patrol kills are maybe in the 100-300 range. With populations of less than 15K, I tend to go with just one hunter for patrolled hunting, and for provinces of < 8K, I forget about the patrollers and just do 0-tax hunts with 2 Priests per province. Any province with > 4K population gets hunted. The blood must flow.

[Graeme Dice]

Originally posted by Stormbinder:
since most efficient bloodhunting provinces would still be at 5K-6/7K population range,

What you are missing is that a province with a large enough population can grow in population faster than the patrols can kill it off, as long as only a certain number of blood hunters work that province. So yes, population definetly does matter.

[Norfleet]

That, of course, only applies if you are hunting under Growth scale. If you're not hunting under Growth, then this entire point is kind of moot, and you may as well just savage the province and move on.

[Graeme Dice]

Originally posted by Norfleet:
That, of course, only applies if you are hunting under Growth scale. If you're not hunting under Growth, then this entire point is kind of moot, and you may as well just savage the province and move on.

If you're playing for the long term, then that's not a particulary good plan. You can get many more slaves out of a given province in the long term by putting three hunters in it and turning taxes to 0.

[Pocus]

Originally posted by Norfleet:

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Originally posted by Graeme Dice:
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.

One fully loaded, slightly experienced Tribal King(65 slaves) can reliably and completely control unrest for two SDR hunters. A newbie(50) TK sometimes loses control in spikes.

With growth-2, I can sustain a relatively stable population with one patrolling Tribal King and two SDR-equipped Mictlan Priests, in a province of > 15K pop, since the province grows at about 600 people per turn, and the patrol kills are maybe in the 100-300 range.

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Thats quite wrong, a 15k pop @growth+2 give birth to 60 people a turn.

[Stormbinder]

Maybe I am missing something here, but why would somebody want to bloodhunt 15K province? IMHO it doesn't make sense from economical point of view.

[Norfleet]

Originally posted by Pocus:
Thats quite wrong, a 15k pop @growth+2 give birth to 60 people a turn.

Ah, that's right, missed a zero. The patrol losses are more like 10-30, then.