How do you sustain a blood econemy?

[kasnavada]

It would be a good idea to actually run some numbers and tests on that, depending on growth.

It would be very interesting to know how many blood hunters can be sustained by a growth 3 province without having the population shrink.

Then you would choose your strategy depending on whether you want to have 5000-person income permanently + moderate blood slave income (blood hunting countered by growth, gold income blocked by the price of patrollers), a growing number of persons but only part of the income (that should pay in the end, but how long with the tax control method ?).

I think I answered my own question already though. I doubt that patrollers costs less that the tax control method "costs" your gold income, and "tax control" does not seem (according to the manual unrest mechanism) to reduce the population, while patrolling does...

[HoneyBadger]

One thing to consider, with growth 3 and 10000+Pop provinces, is that you can, as you Kasnavada state above, sustain more bloodhunters without losing Pop. Yes, you lose more gold, but you can also, if you concentrate larger numbers of bloodhunters in smaller places, protect them more easily. The problem with that, ofcourse, is that eventually, if you overfarm a province, you'll make your population mad at you, which apparently causes more problems.