I just watched Brandenburg disband 11 regiments and rebuild them following a peace settlement. It made me chuckle, but then I though, "No wonder the AI has ridiculous inflation."
it was probably introduced to stop the ai from bankrupting itself when it had to large armies (and navies), so i would think it was a good idea to start with, they just need to fine tune it
I think it has done this in every version of EU3
i think it would be better to make the ai dislike mercs, otherwise we would be right back at my own NA exploit (the merc mega stack)It costs more to build armies from scratch than it does to turn the maintenance slider to 50%. The devs are so obsessed with making the AI put up a military challenge they forgot to give them the ability to take care of their country. The AI still builds loads of mercenaries, and at their cost means the AI will never have inflation under control. Mercenaries should be made cheaper to help the AI, and they definitely shouldn't be disbanding their armies following peace settlements. It costs too much to rebuild them.
i think it would be better to make the ai dislike mercs, otherwise we would be right back at my own NA exploit (the merc mega stack)
I had one ally who was doing that at some point. When I reloaded the game as them, I saw that they had loans. Maybe the culprit is that the AI disband units to save enough to repay the loan, but doesn't consider them when recruiting?
Are there any plans to fix this in 5.1?
No it hasnt, it started in one of the DW patches (or vanilla not 100% sure) but im 100% certain it wasnt an issue pre DW (at least ive never seen it).
Best way to reproduce it: Attack any country, make them your vassal, and watch them build and destroy armies again and again and again. I posted screen shots of this months ago but i was told screenies needed to be from vanilla version, which i sadly dont play.
Are there any hotfixes out there?
Making them much smaller (OPM) or much larger (over 3 provinces) will do. (and it is better not to drag them into wars too often)