What is this recruitment cost???

[TheDarkside]

I am confused about my nation's budget

I am playing as Spain and my monthly budget is consistently showing Recruitment Cost 110.50

What is that?

The only thing I am doing is building 4 2nd rate ship-of-the-lines. I am not recruiting or constructing anything else. Furthermore I am not currently suffering from any attrition. So what is this recruitment cost?

It just so happens one of these ships cost me 110.50 to produce (at my Level 3 ports) however that cost is all taken out of my coffers as soon as I commission the ship, and anyway if its cost was factored into the monthly budget since it takes 180 days to produce, 180 is about 6 months so cost of ship (110.5) divided by 6 months = 18.4 per month multiplied by 4 (how many I am producing right now) = ~74. So that does not explain it.

And on top of that when one of my ships finished the recruitment cost still stayed at 110.5. What gives?

 

[MiracleTortoise]

I am confused about my nation's budget

I am playing as Spain and my monthly budget is consistently showing Recruitment Cost 110.50

What is that?

The only thing I am doing is building 4 2nd rate ship-of-the-lines. I am not recruiting or constructing anything else. Furthermore I am not currently suffering from any attrition. So what is this recruitment cost?

It just so happens one of these ships cost me 110.50 to produce (at my Level 3 ports) however that cost is all taken out of my coffers as soon as I commission the ship, and anyway if its cost was factored into the monthly budget since it takes 180 days to produce, 180 is about 6 months so cost of ship (110.5) divided by 6 months = 18.4 per month multiplied by 4 (how many I am producing right now) = ~74. So that does not explain it.

And on top of that when one of my ships finished the recruitment cost still stayed at 110.5. What gives?

In the month wherein you order a new unit, it will show up in your budget tooltip. The expense will disappear at the end of the month.

 

[spec10]

I think the budget only updates at the start of the month.

 

[fcmsaab]

You budget for example is 100 ducat with 50 monthly

Once you recruits it will say for example 30 ducat with -10 monthly. Once units are produced, it will remove the construction monthly cost of the unit while keeping the regular maintenance.