How blood sacrifice is supposed to works

johan osterman · #1 February 28th, 2004, 12:27 PM

If you use pool you will have to replace the bloodslaves on the sacrificing priests. The priest will have new bloodslaves on him at the beginning of the next turn, and his order to perform sacrifice will not be cancelled when his slaves are removed, but no sacrifice will be performed.

Pocus: dominions seem to spread to neighbouring provinces just fine, I just tested it again and have not experienced any troubles.

Norfleet · #2 February 28th, 2004, 01:23 PM

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Originally posted by johan osterman:
If you use pool you will have to replace the bloodslaves on the sacrificing priests. The priest will have new bloodslaves on him at the beginning of the next turn, and his order to perform sacrifice will not be cancelled when his slaves are removed, but no sacrifice will be performed.

Are you sure about this? Because in my Mictlan game, I found that my dominion would continue to increase even though I would pool the slaves every turn, because somebody else suggested that as long as the slaves went unspent, they'd automatically be used for sacrifices. I can't imagine what else would be causing that widespread dominion increase other than my mass sacrificing.

However, if this is true, then Mictlan once again goes back to being a horrible micromanagement nightmare: You have to manually gather the slaves off every single hunter, even if you've built a lab for that. Maybe the Pool Slaves global should not reduce anyone set to sacrifice below their sacrifice quantity?

johan osterman · #3 February 28th, 2004, 01:37 PM

Norfleet: Yup, I am sure.

Pocus · #4 February 29th, 2004, 02:19 AM

Must be a stroke of bad luck then. An anathemant dragon (for 2 turns) then a high priest (for 4 turns), failed to rise by one candle the dominions of 2 adjacents provinces. If I understand well the rule, I generated the power of 5 or 4 temples (+1 for my own temple).
These 2 provinces were not under the influence of an enemy temple, so it was rather weird.

Arralen · #5 February 28th, 2004, 04:02 PM

Looks to me like you ran into the dominion spreading "irregularity".

Do you have savegames available from those turns? You may check if you, instead of rising dominion in the neighbouring provinces, raised it in some far away province with a "neighbouring" number.
This irregular spreading of dominion has been reported by some other players, and I have seen it lately as well. I suspect that this effect may also cause the turn-2 dominion fluctuations other have reported.

If a dev is interested in the save game - I have 2 available ...