How many slaves?

[Hakim]

I used to trade them back, but I guess I should stop that then.

I know it's cheaper to use them but it increases the MM since I have to use more for the same task.

 

[iguana1]

Not rep...attitude. There is a huge difference!

You would think so...but it don't work that way.

Attitude is what I intended... also, it does improve the orig's attitude toward you to give back their workers. I did it twice last night to the Aztecs after signing a peace treaty and it took their attitude from "furious" to "annoyed" when I have them a couple workers back. I can't verify the rest of the worlds attitude but I do know that the Iroquois stayed at "polite" and no body else decided to hate me in the process. (This was on vanilla 1.29)

 

[josephstalin]

I usually have about 10% max, ussually just 1-2. NWar is not my specality.

 

[Grohan]

About 75%.
I only build workers early after that I just capture them from my enemies.

 

[Sybot]

About 50%, but it depends on the situation. If I have been at war a lot then I'll probably be closer to 75%, because I never disband slaves. After all, they are free units.

 

[tR1cKy]

It widely depends on the situation. In my games i tend to raze a lot, and so i usually grab embarassing numbers of slaves. More are produced when an enemy city is captured and purged from the native population.

Now, condidering the need of the moment, those slaves may be kept forever and national workers may be joined back into the cities. This usually happens when i'm on a tight budget. But once the civilization has been wiped out, those slaves become harmless, and so i can as well keep the nationals and join a big part of the foreigners into friendly cities, to have new cities reach quickly size 6 (WLTKD), or simply to optimize the score with the double increase in population.

 

[Minesweeper]

Definentely b/w 75 and 95%, and on one game I hit a greek city in the middle of my empire with five settler, therefore ten workers, I was very surprised, and immediately sent my slaves into action.


Mathias

 

[MaxArt]

Definentely b/w 75 and 95%, and on one game I hit a greek city in the middle of my empire with five settler, therefore ten workers, I was very surprised, and immediately sent my slaves into action.

Lucky man! You also prevented the filth to spread further!

 

[Bluemofia]

Generally around 55%.