Mercenaries, Morale and Munchies

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Originally posted by Saxon:
Bump!

My old observation still stands. Over multiple re-hiring, the price of a mercenary seems to go up. If I stick at the offer of about 55% of their asking price, they will eventually leave. They do not go to another nation, they go back into the pool.

Have others noticed this or, as many would suggest, am I living in my own reality?

I have not noticed this. If I ever manage to find and hire, say, the Eternal Knights, I do my best to keep them forever or kill them off. And they always ask for 50 during rebidding time.

Since the original posters mentioned this, I would also like to add that it would be wonderful if computer-AI nations would either bid more competitively on mercs or that mercs would be less frequent and/or numerous in the early game. And they will actually ruin themselves by spending insane amounts of money on, say, Guiseppe IV who normally commands 100 men but now commands only 2 because I killed them all.

And one (tiny) bug (?): I purchased Guiseppe at some point in a SP and when I wanted to change some gems around, noticed that he had "-1" fire gems. How can he have negative gems?