Generals body guard unit upkeep

[jjvooodoo]

can we talk about how when playing as on of eastern most factions (india) i can disband all of my units and still be loosing almost 1000 a turn due to the ridiculous unit upkeep coast for its generals body guard

[A_Su]

I agree - as kypchaks its incredibly expensive to keep a few family members as generals let alone a decently sized family tree.

[the man, the myth, the legend]

open the export_descr_unit.txt file with notepad++, go to "Search" then "Find" in the "Find what:" box enter "general_unit", then hit "Find next", for each general unit you come to go to the "stat cost" line, and change the second number in the line (red) number to zero(blue)

stat_cost 1, 974, 487, 209, 107, 974 -change to
stat_cost 1, 0, 487, 209, 107, 974

now keep hitting "find next" and change all the general unit upkeeps to zero or to whatever you want. easy.

[jjvooodoo]

open the export_descr_unit.txt file with notepad++, go to "Search" then "Find" in the "Find what:" box enter "general_unit", then hit "Find next", for each general unit you come to go to the "stat cost" line, and change the second number in the line (red) number to zero(blue)

stat_cost 1, 974, 487, 209, 107, 974 -change to
stat_cost 1, 0, 487, 209, 107, 974

now keep hitting "find next" and change all the general unit upkeeps to zero or to whatever you want. easy.

i have tried that but when i get in-game its the same

[MIKE GOLF]

i have tried that but when i get in-game its the same

I would refer you to this thread concerning the edu (export_descr_unit):

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stat_cost 1, 470, 185, 115, 90, 470, 4, 110
stat_cost – This line determines all of the different florin values that the unit costs. The first value (1, 470, 185, 115, 90, 470, 4, 110) is how many turns the unit takes to build. The second (1, 470, 185, 115, 90, 470, 4, 110) is how many florins the unit costs in the campaign game. This does not affect how many florins it takes to recruit mercenaries. The third (1, 470, 185, 115, 90, 470, 4, 110) is how many florins per turn upkeep costs. The fourth (1, 470, 185, 115, 90, 470, 4, 110) is how much it costs to upgrade the unit’s weapons. The fifth (1, 470, 185, 115, 90, 470, 4, 110) is how much it costs to upgrade the unit’s armor. The sixth (1, 470, 185, 115, 90, 470, 4, 110) is the cost in custom battles. The seventh (1, 470, 185, 115, 90, 470, 4, 110) tells how many times you must purchase a unit in a custom battle before the price goes up. The last value (1, 470, 185, 115, 90, 470, 4, 110) tells the game how much it goes up by.

The actual upkeep per turn is the 3rd set of numbers, the second is the initial cost. Also I would would highly recommend downloading the free program notepad++ and never use the standard windows notepad as the man, the myth, the legend suggested since using the standard windows notepad may introduce hidden characters into your work which may cause the game to not function properly or even crash the game.

[nein]

Are you playing a new version aka kingdoms or the older M2 vanilla one? India is practically unplayable in 2.02 due to the massive upkeep... they are manageable in newer versions after doing some elephant sally blitzing.

[MIKE GOLF]

One solution, while not a pleasant one is to deny any other generals from becoming family members, though that will not help help with other family members coming of age, it will help some.

[Byzantineboy]

In my EDU, I divided the wages of bodyguards by 2.

[C.Maximus]

rampage first 10 turns with those elephants..... you will start to gain money after sacing a few cities...

[Yayattasa]

With the idian elephants you can disband all your army and still be able to conquer all rebel cities around you easily.