Upkeep for summoned units

[Meglobob]

Edi said:
Known recruitment prices for summoned units so far:

Trolls: 60 gold --> 4 upkeep per troll per turn.
Troll Kings: 150 gold --> upkeep 10
Sea Kings: 150 gold --> upkeep 10
Sea Trolls: 50 gold --> upkeep 3.33

Foul spawns: Average recruitment cost 1 gold --> upkeep 0.07. To make it simple, every 15 fould spawns cost 1 gold to upkeep. The more powerful ones like Ettin and Chimaera are 0 recruitment cost, it's the man-sized almost useless chaff that costs money. One of them had a cost of 2, the rest are 1 and one was 0.

More news as the DB progresses.

Edi

This explains why, when playing Atlantis, I cast 3 Troll kings court and 2 Sea Kings court in a single turn and went bankrupt.

[danm]

bah... i just KNEW my agarthan troll-spam/utterdark scheme was too good to be true.

That also explains why my upkeep is higher than I thought it should be in my current game. Poor trolls are just too darn greedy for their own good.

[Edi]

Correction to my above post:

Ettins cost 20 --> 1.33 upkeep.
The four-clawed big humanoid foul spawn costs 15 --> upkeep 1. The rest are as stated.

Edi

[PhilD]

Yeah, not having the upkeep cost appear anywhere in-game is really a stupid oversight.

[NTJedi]

PhilD said:
Yeah, not having the upkeep cost appear anywhere in-game is really a stupid oversight.

Perhaps the gold upkeep information will be added in the units character information window for an upcoming patch... there's plenty of room.

[UncleYee]

I definitely second the call for upkeep for each unit to be visible on the unit info screen. I mean why not?

So I've been summoning wolves as LA Ulm, you know for fun, and I went looking for some info on upkeep, and here's this thread. My wolves don't seem to cost any upkeep, by the way, but I wouldn't swear to that.

So what it's looking like based on my reading is that SOME summons have upkeep, and some don't. Maybe. And while our first understanding was that the list of summoned units with upkeeps was quite short, there are actually quite a few summons that'll cost you gold. And there's no easy way to tell, because if things like foul spawn and Call of the Winds birdies have costs, then it isn't just a matter of recruitable = upkeep cost, is it? Or are those things recruitable?

Yeppers, I think being able to see the upkeep per unit in game would be fantastic.

[vfb]

Please grab Edi's spreadsheet from the Units, Weapons, Armor link in his sig.

Recruits and Summons: the "Cost Gold" column determines maintenance, at (Cost Gold)/15

Mercenaries: the maintenance is zero

Pretender: I have no idea if you have to pay maintenance on your pretender

I think it would be nice if "Cost" and "Maintenance" could be added to the "Hit Points" window so that it looks like this:

Hit Points: 10
Size: 2
Cost: 24
Maintenance: 24 / 15
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