Atlantis and upkeep/supply

[The Panther]

Nagot Gick Fel said:

I'll never understand why so many people believe this. There's absolutely no relation between summoning and upkeep.

There must be a problem with using the English language here, Nagot. I don't understand what you mean by 'many people believe this'. Believe what exactly?

And you are wrong about one thing. There definitely IS a relation between summoning and upkeep. When you cast Sea King's Court, you will see a major spike in your upkeep costs. That is a CLEAR relation between the two. But for most summons, the statement about no relation is true, which is prescisely my point as to the gross imbalance in the various types of summons (expecially trolls).

As for the idea of ALL summons costing upkeep, I suppose it does hurts the undead Ermor themes, even if a soulless cost basis were something like 2 gold. However, it would have the nice benefit that Ermor armies would no longer be able to grow nearly to infinity like they can do now.

Perhaps it would be better if NO troops and NO summons cost upkeep. Let your commanders be the only troops which costs upkeep. The commander upkeep costs would, of course, have to be raised to balance the game properly. This would make building armies a GOOD thing for the entire game, unlike they way it is now.