Revamped blood collection?

JaydedOne · #1 October 2nd, 2006, 01:14 PM

Now that the game's in release, can someone talk about how revamped blood collection works? I've rarely ever played blood nations because of the micromanagement and gave it a go last night. It wasn't so bad, but one thing I hated was that pooling virgins meant that you had to manually reassign virgins to each sacrificing priest who was in a temple that also had a lab. That's not so bad initially but when you have double-digit temples, it's a headache.

How does it work now?

okiN · #2 October 2nd, 2006, 01:19 PM

Has it been revamped? I remember asking but I never got an answer.

JaydedOne · #3 October 2nd, 2006, 01:33 PM

One assumes (one PRAYS) that when they say reduced micromanagement, they mean blood as well.

And I seem to recall it being mentioned somewhere in an earlier thread as seeing a revamp.

Endoperez · #4 October 2nd, 2006, 02:35 PM

I haven't heard of that change. I haven't checked blood nations yet, though. I'll test quickly.

One way micromanagement was reduced is auto-taxation. It can be turned on/off very easily. I doubt it anticipates what unrest the province will have next turn, so it mightn't help much.

Endoperez · #5 October 2nd, 2006, 02:52 PM

Hasn't changed. I noticed this, though:

Only one message per province.

Tyrian · #6 October 2nd, 2006, 03:41 PM

In my opinion, this problem make playing Mictlan really hard on large map. When you have to give blood slave to 30 priest(after a great use of virgin), 2 times... Argl...

Ballbarian · #7 October 2nd, 2006, 03:48 PM

A small "Lock" icon/toggle/checkbox next to the gem box on commanders would help tremendously. Simply check the lock and gems/slaves of the given commander are ignored when pooling. Maybe in a future patch?

NTJedi · #8 October 2nd, 2006, 04:01 PM

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Ballbarian said:
A small "Lock" icon/toggle/checkbox next to the gem box on commanders would help tremendously. Simply check the lock and gems/slaves of the given commander are ignored when pooling. Maybe in a future patch?

I agree... this is especially helpful for large maps.
In dominions_2 I usually pool earth, fire, astral and blood gems since an item or action brings them into the inventory of commanders. Thus I have to pool gems first and then redistribute gems on the front lines which takes a good chunk of time on the large maps.

Tyrian · #9 October 2nd, 2006, 08:52 PM

Very good idea. With a special command like the lock, we should give order to a general to resupply his gems automatically when he is in a province with a laboratory.

BigJMoney · #10 October 2nd, 2006, 09:38 PM

Ack! Consolidating messages like this has made blood collection worse! Did nobody realize that? Before, I could click M for messages, then "go to commander" for each commander that collected blood slaves. Now, I can't even do that. The microing for blood hunting has just been exasperated, lol. I have to wonder if anyone developing/testing plays Mictlan... EVER.

Well, looking on the bright side, I'll hope that one day this _will_ get taken care of. To be honest, I'd rather Mictlan not even exist than this. At least there are a million other nations for me to play that don't have this issue.

=$= Big J Money =$=