"Unrest" Discussion

[Japher]

Ok, I've had the game for 2 weeks now, and am still finding myself thinking about it all day at work, and then running home to play it ASAP.

I have pretty much just been going through path combinations and getting a feel for the different races. I still haven't found a race (or path set) that I am decided on as they all have their pluses and minuses.

So, the other day I was playing a Ghost King with the Vanheim. I gave my Ghost King 7 Death, 4 Earth, and 4 Blood or something like that, eventually I pumped him up so much I forgot what he began as. As I terrorized the country sides I studied construction up to 6 I think and made the divining rod that allows you to have greater success with blood hunts. I gave to a Vanjarl (I believe, the dark horse guys) and had them hunt with awesome success. So, everything was going smooth, I had a nice army of demon spawn and undead lead by some pretty awesome heroes. Then, I was unable to produce any more units from my town. It took me a while to realize my unrest was over 100. So, I sent in some priests to preach to them and make them feel better. Well, that didn’t work, I got the message that my Dominion was already at it’s max. So, I lowered the tax and sent my blood hunting hero into surrounding providences. After several turns my unrest was below 100, and several turns later it was at zero.

So, I guess this is just a warning to people who play the “evil” pretenders; keep an eye on your unrest!

I still don’t really understand unrest, how I caused it to get so high, and what is needed to keep it down. Is it a combination of not taking all the virgins for yourself, keeping taxes normal or low, and the Dominion guarded? Is there anything else, or something that I needn’t worry about? What do you do to take maximum advantage of your province without increasing unrest?

Oh, and thanks to Zen’s Item List and Sunray’s Virtual Library… I have actually compiled a manual from all the information (whether it be true or not) that is actually useful, though about the size of a set of encyclopedias.