a very small suggestion for the next patch for ryhleh ( devs plz read )

[Boron]

i noticed today that the hybrid's which spawn in your coastal land provinces are not upkeepfree .
in small maps with less than 100 provinces they are a very nice idea .
but on big maps like faerun / orania the hybrids are annoying .
in my game i played i owned ~15 coastal provinces and through the spawned hybrids i had to pay each turn ~10-20 upkeep more .

this really hurts since it is a very time consuming + boring task to get rid of all your hybrids by letting make them suicide attacks on enemies . + once you control all costs and need to travel 3-4 provinces inland to the next enemy it is really a pain .

now comes the worst part :
a hybrid has a basic morale of 11 while your starspawns have a morale of 9 and your star childs a morale of 10.

so once either your upkeep gets higher than your income or someone casts utterdark not the hybrids but your valuable mages will desert first !

in general even if you sacrifice most of your hybrids each turn through suicide attacks you will still have many of them and pay 200-300 upkeep for them although you would never have recruited them .

so i would suggest to make them upkeepfree in the next patch because they are a serious disadvantage for ryhleh on a map like faerun and i don't think this was intended .

[ July 11, 2004, 15:45: Message edited by: Boron ]