It seems you get 5 gold per slave you sacrifice. I guess my question is.... Is it worth sacrificing slaves in any instances, like right before a raid?

That's a very interesting question, and something I didn't know was possible. Hopefully Aristotle will come to this thread and dispense some information on the matter.

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I had a friend who when running slave pits, would check and see how full they were before making a raid attack. He would sacrafice enough to make room for the "newcomers", get full pits for income, and the gold from sacraficing the slaves for troops and the like. So there is a time that it is beneficial to do, but I wouldn't do it all the time.

Yea, logically it'd be a little bonus you could get with a race that captures slaves on attacks or with raids. The ones that capture on attacks normally do it as a percentage of the troops sent don't they? 1 slave for every 10 troops or something like that?

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If you have slavepits, and they are almost full, then yes, it's worth sacrificing the overkill amount of slaves.

But....the gain is not that big. With a normal raid or amazon-attack you'll get 1 slave every 10 units sent, with a maximum of 10% of the target's peasants. So to get 1000 slaves, you'll need to attack/raid someone with at least 10k peasants and something like 50k offense. When offense goes to 50k, then usually incomes are already above 100k/h. A bonus of 5k over 1200k every 12 hours.....it's not nothing, but I can't say it's a really significant amount.

Also, this is with the assumption of having full slavepits. That would mean that you have refilled your pits just before your attack, which is a bit a waste of spy-strength. With that spy-strength you might also have found a target with the same land but 400-500 defense less, which would result in losing 25-30 offense less, and thus saving 5k+ gold

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