Can I get some cheese with that...

[Norfleet]

Originally posted by Esben Mose Hansen:
Being one of the non-VQ-whiners, but clam, To paraphrase. I wouldn't mind clams if the damn pearls showed up in the lab, or the blood slaves did

There's a "pool" button for clams....blood slaves remains somewhat of a sore spot, if you're simultaneously hunting and sacrificing, as the sacrificers then have to have their slaves manually replaced. This is somewhat annoying. Pooling for clams, fetishes, and earth bloods is simple and one-click, though.

castle spamming did not remove or reduce my ability to create a few production centers to manage instead of every single province.

Castle spammers don't have production centers because they tend to favor mages over troops: Troops lack the mobility needed to effectively respond to a sudden threat before your cheap paper castle collapses, so you need teleportation, gatewaying, or trapezing. Thus, you WON'T have production centers: Instead, you'll be pumping out mages from your cheap towers and not building very many of your national troops except the really cheap ones at all. The sacrifice you make for castle-spam is that you give up access to national troops as a meaningful fighting force, and become dependent on summons, SCs, and mages.