Any way to speed up minion recruiting via Gateways?

[MBOmnis]

I find that the game very slowly adds minions to your dungeon via Gateways. On Mission 3 I remember building a Foundry large enough to attract 8 Chunders and it took a very long time (more than half an hour) for all 8 Chunders to appear.
Yes, I did have a large enough Lair, and the Gateway was at 20% units spawned.

Is there any way to speed the process up? In this particular mission I had to sit around twiddling my thumbs while waiting for enough minions to join me in order to make the final push against Lord O'Theland.

Back in Dungeon Keeper 2 creatures would pop out of Portals way faster (sometimes too fast, even), and this is kinda annoying

[Korvek]

Lairs have nothing to do with spawn rates.

You should have attracted eight chunders much faster than that. I presume that you disabled all other minions in the gateway. If so, minions typically only take around 30-90 seconds to spawn (with the number being much closer to 30 at the start). WFTO minion spawn is actually Much faster than DK2.

More gateways speeds up the process but only by a few seconds. Perhaps you could record a video where you build an 8 prop foundry but it takes over half an hour for chunders to spawn; it sounds like a glitch and certainly nothing I have experienced before.

[Biervampir [AUT]]

To speed it up:
- Have 1 prop before you claim the portal. You'll get 1 int. unit instantly
- build a 3x3 beast den after you claimed your portal and keep on increasing it over time
- allways increase your room, so that you allways have enough space to have units to spawn
- More room props = more minionns
- Chunders, Gnarlings and cultists "spawn as fastest"

at 30min I have around 50-70 units

[MBOmnis]

I was on Mission 3, which has no access to the Beast Den.
I'll try to get a recording if I see this happening again. The biggest problem is that this mission is small, with only one portal and not a lot of space to build rooms with a lot of props. Too many unbreakable tiles scattered all over. :/

I'll see how it goes on the next campaign maps.

[Biervampir [AUT]]

On the south is a huge open area, you can plsce a room there which can contain around 30 props

[Korvek]

If you do not have much room to build then the level does not require too many units to complete it.