Newbie suffering from unrest

[Toni_Bubu]

So Calahan, that means I could actually give myself bad scales and suppress my own dominion?

[Illuminated One]

Depends.

EA/LA Mictlan surely can, since they can only spread their dom through blood sacrifices.

I thought about sceptics + bad scales but the big problem is that once your bad scales have set in a province (which mostly happens when a province has your dominion) they will stick around after you remove your dom.
And since the points you save on your scales normally go either in an awake SC (=provinces you take with your god automatically get +1 dominion) or a bless (=high dominion) it's hard not to have them spread.
The only thing I can imagine where this could work is drain (since it's enough to have a few provinces without drain).

[MaxWilson]

Originally Posted by Toni_Bubu

So Calahan, that means I could actually give myself bad scales and suppress my own dominion?

Yes. It's most likely to be useful with Drain and to some extent sloth Sloth, because the effects are so easily localizable. I.e. to overcome Turmoil scales you'd need to cancel out your dominion everywhere, but to overcome Drain-3 you just need to overcome it where your researchers are. If you took Sloth for Philosophers and want to pump out myrmidons/chariots, eliminating Sloth in a key province with Iron Mine or something *might* be worth the hassle.

-Max