Scout Bloodhunting Nerf - New Numbers?

[Graeme Dice]

Originally posted by Yossar:
Population should be "more than" also.

That wouldn't make any sense, since that would require that 1d5000 be more than 20,000 people in a large province.

[Yossar]

Originally posted by Graeme Dice:

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Originally posted by Yossar:
Population should be "more than" also.

That wouldn't make any sense, since that would require that 1d5000 be more than 20,000 people in a large province.

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You're right. I don't know what I was thinking.

It's still interesting that size of province has no bearing on number of slaves in that formula. If that's correct I guess I'll start hunting in smaller provinces from now on.

[Inigo Montoya]

Originally posted by Kristoffer O:


Basically:
if 1d100 less than (10 + 40xblood) and 1d5000 less than population and 1d400 less than unrest

effect is d6(oe)+blood

Thanks for this information! Can you also enlighten us on the unrest generated per searcher?

You said the Level 2 Blood Hunter was the best deal, but wouldn't the best be a Level 1 Blood Hunter with a Sanguine Dousing Rod?

Does the Sanguine Dousing Rod's +2 to blood hunting help for the effect, i.e. number of blood slaves, or does it only help for the % chance to find slaves?

Thanks so much!!!

[Stormbinder]

Originally posted by Yossar:

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Originally posted by Graeme Dice:

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Originally posted by Yossar:
Population should be "more than" also.

That wouldn't make any sense, since that would require that 1d5000 be more than 20,000 people in a large province.

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You're right. I don't know what I was thinking.

It's still interesting that size of province has no bearing on number of slaves in that formula. If that's correct I guess I'll start hunting in smaller provinces from now on.

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Actually Yossar was partly correct. According to this formula _there is_ no difference between 5001 and 20000 province. That's strange.

[PDF]

Originally posted by Kel:

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Originally posted by Kristoffer O:

if 1d100 less than (10 + 40xblood) and 1d5000 less than population and 1d400 less than unrest

Was that supposed to be 1d400 *more* than unrest ?

- Kel

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It means that you have Unrest/400 chance of blowing it and find no slave... Rationale is that unrest in provinces makes hunting harder.

Looks like best hunt situation is a Blood1 mage + SDR in a low unrest 5-7k pop province
Success near guaranteed, avg 6+ slaves/turn
OTOH a non-blood hunter (scout..) only has 10% of finding 3+ slaves, that's a 0.3 average.

[Pocus]

is the SDR still counting as +2 levels for a blood mage?

[Kristoffer O]

SDR +1 (since 2.06 or something).