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Isn't there a setting or something on the downloads page under the library tab?

Nope. You can limit the time window and bandwidth but that appears to be it. Bit more control in the individual game settings but still no "don't". Could at least disable it from downloading while you play, too.

I guess you could do something third party to throttle steam's bandwidth allocation down to zero when you're not using it? Or just block the connection or somethin'.

That would mean doing something besides making more manikins with the centaurs, though :V

It would also be pretty a'ight on their sacred freespawn, for what it's worth. Iirc it'll work off the ranged attacks, too, and other than the extra vine bow attack and lack of H1 the chassis is pretty much identical. Well... actually, checking it, the carcasses are marginally better than the summoned centaurs -- +2 attack and precision, 3 more morale. Not amphibian, though, and obviously no kit unless you're GoRing sagittarian carcasses for some reason. Or divine word, I guess... can't remember if GoR still works on the manikin stuff.

Lack of self-bless isn't really an issue, either, since asphodel has H3 access on the carrion lords...

E: Ah, actually, no, they're a bit different. Swaps out one sleep vine attack for a vine whip, so it's 7 chances vs 5 + ranged. Bright side, though, that vine whip is a lot more accurate. +4 attack instead of -1, and an extra point of length t'boot.

I like LA. Not fully sure why. Less annoying stuff when it comes to popkilling dominions and elves. Though I'm not actually sure if LA has the least popkill.

It's matched with MA, isn't it? Asphodel and Ermor, Lemuria and R'yleh. Least popkill is EA, iirc -- far as I recall there's only Therodos (and tbh it's probably the easiest of popkill nations to contain... still has a pretty rough time getting going, from what I recall.). Maybe changes a bit if you include nations that just have popkilling units, but those are the dominion linked ones.

That's why they get pumped back in, with extra Emperor Brand psyker wheaties.

Though that does mean he has fluids but he's not sharing them. The emperor keeps all his fluids on the inside, especially the ones he didn't start with.

What's everybody's favorite era? I'm most used to the middle ages. I ask because I'm wondering about which era to do the blood magicks in.

Definitely early, m'self... so long as I'm not playing freespawn nations. If I am it'd be middle age, with late a very close second.

Though... I think thematically, at least on the net, I kinda' like LA the most. The whole (relatively) low fantasy vs. rampaging gods is a neat backdrop. It's just that EA is a lot more interesting, in general -- more fancy stuff, more variety, etc., etc., etc. If LA's the most interesting me on the net, EA is on every particular. More than the sum of its parts type stuff, heh. On every individual part, EA wins for me, but on the whole it's LA.

MA's just... in between. S'aight, has ermor and asphodel, but otherwise, well... it splits the difference between high points. The compromise age, basically, and, well. You know what they say about compromise. It's the one where no one involved walks away happy

Not that I really dislike any of them, mind. Just definitely prefer other-than-middle-age.

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As for best era for blood magic, it'd almost certainly be early. Early's... basically the best era for any magic, in general. More mages, stronger mages, more magicy bits in on the whole (iirc it's even got a built-in slight boost to magic site rate). If you want to break things with magic it's probably the era you default to muddling around with.

After that it's LA, iirc. Want to say it just has more blood access than MA, though it's certainly soon enough after waking up I could be forgetting the overall compositions.

... don't think so? No more than any of the other rainbow mages, at least. There's a good handful that all have the 10 cost for new thing, though I can't recall which ones also have a higher chassis cost.

Though even with that, iirc some of the 20 or 30 cost ones actually crunch out to be cheaper for a multi-bless strat, both for the higher base dom (which is still important, unless you're blessing sacred giants or something and only need to recruit 2-3 a turn... and can somehow to leverage the bless to keep from getting domkilled) and higher/more starting paths.

Eh... re the corruption stuff, it's pretty well known in the states (and elsewhere, but I'm more familiar with 'em) that the church circuit is one of the biggest fraud et al markets in existence*. There's pretty much no setting easier to exploit for an experienced (or not) scam artist, and even just petty/incidental stuff (the sort of thing that's like workers unintentionally walking off with the occasional pen, which costs companies a fair amount on the net) racks up the dosh over time and area.

And from what we know most of it we don't actually hear much about so far as news and whatnot goes -- it's kept in house, brushed under rugs, ignored or rationalized by the congregation, played well enough no one notices until the next priest comes in (that may only happen after the last one dies of old age :V) and sees the numbers off... the list just kinda' goes on. The big stuff that makes the news is barely a ping on the proverbial radar so far as organized religion related exploitation goes. It takes something particularly nasty to break down how little people are willing to suspect, or even just double check, priests or fellow members of the congregation. There's all sorts of less nasty that happily putters along with barely anyone noticing outside the specific church, if that.

... and that's not even touching all the shit related to taxes and law and whatnot. Seriously not touching, both because it pisses me seven different kinds of off and it's been a year or three since I brushed up on the current state of things.

*Forget the numbers for the US specifically, but I've seen estimates upwards 50 billion annually lost to internal crime in churches worldwide... and even the lower bounds are tens of billions, just less tens (mid to upper 30s instead of 50 or up). The kicker to notice there is that's more than churches worldwide spend on missionary work. Religions may not primarily be there to exploit people for power and money but it's a really damn good environment to do so.