Tips for finding blood slaves appreciated here

[IKerensky]

tips for finding bloodslaves:

- Avoid downtown back alley.
- Nightclub isn't great either.
- Contrary to popular thought swiss girl pensionnate is less productive then expected.

Serious tip:

- Find a 10K population province.
- Lower taxe to 0.
- Build a laboratory.
- Bring every heroes there and hunt, scout can have nice success even without blood.

You can try hunthing in your home province if you make enough buck elsewhere and/or dont need your capitol unit too much.

[GavinWheeler]

Hunting with Priests:
I had actually heard that the expense of a Blood 1 hunter over a scout with a dowsing rod didn't pay for itself (even over time??), but I wanted lots of priests to try out Communion abuse with a nation other than Pythium. So as I was hiring them anyway, I may as well put them to good use while waiting to try fielding a magic heavy army. And they do (unquantified vague impression here) seem to produce a lot more slaves than my scout hunting parties from an earlier attempt did.

As for the pool button working with auto-blood sacrifice:
Does that mean that if I click 'pool' my auto-sacrificers will go on sacrificing their allotted number of slaves every round, despite not having any slaves in their inventory? For that matter, am I wrong about the number of slaves in their inventory deciding how many slaves they will sacrifice? I can't remember where I heard that, but I haven't tested it myself, having had plenty of blood slaves so far.

[Graeme Dice]

Originally posted by Norfleet:
One way to rake in the blood slaves is to strew any province with > 5K people with a scout or two hunting, and take the taxes down to maybe 70-80:

I find it hard to believe that a zero blood scout will hunt more effectively than a 1 blood mictlan priest with a dousing rod. Especially when that priest costs only twice as much per turn.

[Saber Cherry]

Originally posted by tinkthank:
Anybody got any tips on how to get some nice blood slaves? Preferably scantily clad, and not too thin? Oh no sorry forget that.

You might try provinces with the "Catholic Girl's High School" special site.

P.S. Blood hunting with tentacle monsters should give a big bonus... I hope that can be modded

[ February 11, 2004, 16:22: Message edited by: Saber Cherry ]

[tinkthank]

Are you familiar with Frank Zappa's song "Catholic School Girls" (on Joe's Garage)? Just a thought.

Thanks for the tips people. I think my problem was I was trying in provinces with too low population. Just: larger pops tend also to be richer, and one doesnt want to upset and/or lower taxes on those rich provinces.... ah tradeoffs. I like this game. I miss sleep. Wife angry. Must sue. Ah no sorry forget that.

[ywl]

Originally posted by Graeme Dice:

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Originally posted by Norfleet:
One way to rake in the blood slaves is to strew any province with > 5K people with a scout or two hunting, and take the taxes down to maybe 70-80:

I find it hard to believe that a zero blood scout will hunt more effectively than a 1 blood mictlan priest with a dousing rod. Especially when that priest costs only twice as much per turn.

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Priests are more effective. But there is no unrest if the scouts don't get any blood slaves. And they can't find too many each time, so the 70-80 tax rate take care of the unrest when that happened. So, you could in theory flood a moderate size with 4+ scouts and let them blood hunt. Collect the slaves only once in a few turns.

[licker]

Originally posted by ywl:

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Originally posted by Graeme Dice:

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Originally posted by Norfleet:
One way to rake in the blood slaves is to strew any province with > 5K people with a scout or two hunting, and take the taxes down to maybe 70-80:

I find it hard to believe that a zero blood scout will hunt more effectively than a 1 blood mictlan priest with a dousing rod. Especially when that priest costs only twice as much per turn.

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Priests are more effective. But there is no unrest if the scouts don't get any blood slaves. And they can't find too many each time, so the 70-80 tax rate take care of the unrest when that happened. So, you could in theory flood a moderate size with 4+ scouts and let them blood hunt. Collect the slaves only once in a few turns.

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Scouts suck period. I find it hard to believe that it is more cost effective to use 4+ scouts than 1 decent mage with blood on them (and the dousing rod, which if I recall correctly doesn't help non blood powered commanders anymore). Beyond that your blood mage can switch to summoning demons when needed, the scouts can't do squat, well they have their value as scouts, but that's only useful outside of your provinces...

Scouts can be useful to ferry slaves from hunting commanders in provinces without labs though...