I had a game with lots of artillery that got pretty low in manpower and I've set my army funding at 0%. A few months later I noticed that my monthly income has gone to shit. I noticed all my income is used up for never-ending reinforcement.
Posted Jul 7, 2014, 2:43 AM UTC
The game is weird and the way it calculates how much you pay for reinforcement is the closer it is to 1000 men the more expensive it gets. Having a ton of stacks with 990 is ungodly expensive.
and the bug so to speak is also that it will STAY ungodly expensive forever if you leave it at 0% army funding.
Try merging the army. You'll lose a regiment or two, but it might fix the reinforcement issue.
we know something is wrong with reinforcements when recruitment exceeds current manpower in the current steam build. It should get fixed in the next patch though.
Yes, it's a bullshit bug in all 1.6.x versions. Hopefully they'll fix it in 1.7.
If you're not funding your military, how are they expected to reinforce the military? For free? PFFT! Commie! Seriously though, if your funding is at zero, your armies will never reinforce, but will continue to charge you for reinforcement. You have two options, find a middle on the slider that will reinforce, but at a level you can afford, or consolidate your regiments. Often if you have 30 regiments, say at 950 each, EACH one of those is costing reinforcement. Consolidate, and it will only be one that is reinforcing, cutting your costs down considerably.
Thats not true, if you have 0 maintainence, your armies won't reinforce but you also shouldn't be charged for reinforcing...
Actually, I think you're wrong here. According to the EU4 wiki, reducing the maintenance slider to 0% will lower maintenance by up to 50% and stop all reinforcement. However, any unit which needs reinforcement costs double the maintenance cost. So while you're lowering the base maintenance, you're not actually gaining any money, because you need your regiments to be reinforced first.
I think in general, it's better to keep your slider to 100% until you're reinforced, or consolidate/disband regiments. The higher your slider, the faster you will reinforce, and once you're fully reinforced, THEN you can lower the slider to start making money.
I must have "lost" a few thousand ducats because I thought I'd save money to leave regiments undermanned at 0% funding. Well I learned it now.