Mercs

[NTJedi]

Ballbarian said:
Barely. Instead of bidding 6 over the base, I have been bidding 11 over and have not lost a single bid yet in my current long game. Playing as EA Ermor and I have controlled all mercenaries since the beginning of the game. Now on turn 108.

Unfortunately the computer AI opponents don't place high bids on the mercenaries giving a significant edge to SP gamers. Way back during dominions_2 it was also mentioned how the AI opponents are not competively bidding on the mercenaries... yet same as what you noticed there was virtually no change.
In multiplayer games the bidding on mercenaries will go 50, 100 or more over the original price depending on the mercs. The AI opponents could seriously do lots better if when bidding on mercenaries when they FIRST appear randomly was up to 100 over.