Abysia help please!

licker · #1 February 19th, 2004, 05:14 PM

A 10% pop drop isn't that bad really, especially if you are doing heavy blood hunting/patroling and have death scale. It does sound as though you may have had one of the 4% or 5% pop killer misfortune events as well. No biggie really...

I've had my capitol down to under 15k by turn 30 a few times, though most of it wasn't my doing exactly

Hully · #2 February 19th, 2004, 07:08 PM

Thanks everyone...But I think its on own goal

I put my tax rate to 200% and patrolled heavily to keep the unrest down, it seemed a good idea at the time.

So yes I discovered the down side, people killed by patrolling unsettled provinces come of the population? Well I think that�s what was happening.

Can anyone confirm this?

Thanks

licker · #3 February 19th, 2004, 07:11 PM

Heh, hell yah!

If you tax and 200% and patrol to keep unrest down you will lose pop fast. In fact I'm surprised it was only 10% in 25 turns, though you probably didn't have those conditions for the full 25...

A better system to use is to designate a few 5-10k pop provinces as your blood hunting grounds and either patrol or just drop the taxes to zero (or something else low) to curb unrest. Usually wrecking your capitol in the early game is a really bad idea. Over taxing is also a bad long term strategy.

Zurai · #4 February 19th, 2004, 08:03 PM

Every point of unrest killed by patrolling is something like 10 population. So with 200% taxes, you're probably getting 50 unrest or so a turn at least and putting it down, that's 500+ people per turn. Lose your population pretty fast like that - that's why it's usually preferred to lower taxes to decrease unrest if you have the time. Patrolling is for emergency unrest reduction and for catching enemy stealthers.

Graeme Dice · #5 February 19th, 2004, 08:11 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Hully:
I put my tax rate to 200% and patrolled heavily to keep the unrest down, it seemed a good idea at the time.

So yes I discovered the down side, people killed by patrolling unsettled provinces come of the population? Well I think that�s what was happening.

Not only are people killed by the patrols, people are also killed by the high tax rate.