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Heroes deserting to failed maintenance

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July 7th, 2016, 16:58
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I've made it so that they cannot desert due to low gold at all - my main intention for this was to prevent the AI from losing them, however recently we found out the AI doesn't even lose units to maintenance - they disband them on their own and that already has heroes as an exception to never disband - so this change might have became unnecessary.
On the other hand, not losing heroes randomly - with all their items - due to temporal low gold is a pretty nice feature, and in 99% of cases other units will be lost instead to the missing gold : the only way to get away with not paying without losing every other unit is if all units have no gold maintenance or are heroes.

So the question is, do we keep this feature or revert it? (question valid for both CoM and the possible 1.51 patch)
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July 7th, 2016, 17:14
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It seems this will come into play so seldom that it doesn't make much of a difference. I say keep the heroes, if you had your units desert then that's already bad enough, heroes are much worse. Seeing as the #1 cause of losing units this way is losing a city and then not being able to adjust your empire's food before disbanding, then I completely support it in 1.5.
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July 7th, 2016, 17:19
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(July 7th, 2016, 17:14)Tiltowait Wrote: It seems this will come into play so seldom that it doesn't make much of a difference. I say keep the heroes, if you had your units desert then that's already bad enough, heroes are much worse. Seeing as the #1 cause of losing units this way is losing a city and then not being able to adjust your empire's food before disbanding, then I completely support it in 1.5.

Heroes don't eat food fortunately, so this can only happen with gold, but yes, that is the most likely reason. I doubt any sane person would want to play the game on 0 gold and no non-hero units just to be able to take advantage of this new "exploit".
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July 7th, 2016, 19:32
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How does this apply to Torin? Being able to recruit him early with 11 Life books and then not pay his mana support would be pretty strong.
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July 8th, 2016, 04:55
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(July 7th, 2016, 19:32)spottedshroom Wrote: How does this apply to Torin? Being able to recruit him early with 11 Life books and then not pay his mana support would be pretty strong.

He costs mana not gold so he is not affected by these changes and will be lost I believe.
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