Mercs are the same price as in the demo
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For those of us without GG version what is the maintenance cost for the cheapest Mercs in the game now?
Same for Holy Orders? AFAIR hiring Templars was like ca. 40gold maintenance in prewiev version.
Maintenance costs for the lowest level mercs are still showing as ~6 for me. I believe this is what they were in the demo.
The hire cost should have been doubled as well. Everyone complained about overpowered mercs at the start in the demo only to be told "it's fixed!'.... well, if it's only double maint cost it ain't fixed.
Ok, so they were not doubled. 6 is fine in my opinion, but its the same as the demo.
It's easy to check in "common/defines.lua".
v1.02b: MERCENARY_MAINTENANCE_FACTOR = 2.5
Demo: MERCENARY_MAINTENANCE_FACTOR = 1.25
60 - 6 is not right. It's rather easy to get 100 and start rampage as anyone at the start of the game.
Ok. Well the maintanence is the same as in the demo.
Also I am finding I cant raise levys when I have already raised levys. Is this a bug? The ai can do it but I cant. I.e. I have raised my armies but now I need extra men I cant go back and raise the men it says are available after about 6 weeks of the war...
Mercs are powerful in the early game, and then become less so as normal levy sizes increase.
I think they are fine.
maybe before we complain the mercs should be tested in a full playthrough. armies in the time were mostly made up of mercs anyways and the AI uses them as well.
maybe before we complain the mercs should be tested in a full playthrough. armies in the time were mostly made up of mercs anyways and the AI uses them as well.
It's possible that something else changed that offset the merc maintenance cost increase. I will look into it.
No, it's not a bug, you need to disband your levy from the holding before you can raise it again. The AI can't do this either.
Nothing has changed with the merc, neither the hire nor the maintanence!
It is 1:1 as in the demo.
GG version 1.02b [JBOO]
It is 1:1 as in the demo.
GG version 1.02b [JBOO]
One thing you can be 100% sure of is that 1.02b is the latest version of the game. So, no worries.
Exactly, precisely why because I thought they were fine in the demo myself.
I think theres a gap in perception on merc power between 'vanilla' demo users and '666 mod' demo users who played for 100 years+. After 50 years of play I can RARELY be bothered to hire mercs. Once I can command dozens in thousands in levies, the only reason I'd want to is either because I'm losing badly, so its such a quickie war that I cant be bothered to gather and bundle my levies...