[Minimod] Original Carthage mercenary upkeep

[luck_ponte]

The mod does exactly what's in the description: it gives Carthage back it's 40% discount on mercenaries upkeep. If you use the non official mod manager, just make sure to put it above DEI or any other mod that messes with the effect_bundles_to_effects_junctions table. Hope you all enjoy =D
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfile.../?id=265321077

[pingouinjunky]

I post to tell you that there is well a reduction of the amount of the upkeep of the mercenaries but very light and no 40 percent.
For example with your activated mod, for the mercenary numides riders, I am thought of from 281 to 226 as the upkeep cost.

[luck_ponte]

That's because Carthage didn't lost it's perk of having cheaper mercs, it only had it nerfed (from 40% to 25%). What I did was to reset it to its original state. So, instead of having a 40% cost difference, you will have roughly 15% (those aren't the exact values, since DEI messes with mercenaries prices). I ran a test comparing the prices of the same units (in this example I'll use the mercenary Hoplite) for Rome (in theory with no modifiers), Carthage with the mod and Carthage without it. Those are the results: Rome - 528/turn Carthage(modded) - 352/turn Carthage(not modded) - 418/turn. I found out that Carthage wasn't getting a 40% bonus over Rome, but yet a 30% (352/528=1/3~=0.33), but again, DEI messed with the price of mercenaries, so the results are not conclusive. Will run some more tests (in Vanilla) to check that out. Hope it helps and thanks for your feedback ;D