Slaves as a rare commodity ???

[NerZhulen]

I love this mode, RS I, RSII, and the usualls. Today I decided its my time to get some more of this stuff.
I started reading the DEI manuall, and found out that slaves are extremely rare commodity on the campaign map.
I understand gameplay is important and all. But making the most abundant commodity of ancient world the rarest one, is kind of above my limit.
Slaves were available literaly everywhere, where there were humans alive.

Anyone shares my view??

[Medina]

Ofcourse you are right.

[Hoplitus]

Hi!

Actually the slaves you get as a ressource for/from trading are trained slaves!
You can still aquire the usual slaves as battle captives. So "the slave-ressource" are kind of special slaves, e.g. well educated slaves who are capable of reading or writing. So in opinion it makes sense that those are rather rare and hard to find.

[NerZhulen]

Hi!

Actually the slaves you get as a ressource for/from trading are trained slaves!
You can still aquire the usual slaves as battle captives. So "the slave-ressource" are kind of special slaves, e.g. well educated slaves who are capable of reading or writing. So in opinion it makes sense that those are rather rare and hard to find.

Fair enough, +1 for you

[Butan]

Hoplitus is point on!

You can have 99% of your population made of slaves you captured in battles, without having the actual (trained) slave ressource.
Still, to accomodate that limited availability problem on the campaign map, if you manage to build a slave building up to lvl 3/4 it generates a trained slave ressource, which gives you independence from trade.