Quote Originally Posted by TinCow View Post
First come, first serve wouldn't matter because only one person can own a province at a time. Since you can only recruit mercs in provinces you own or have conquered, other people wandering through your lands won't be able to recruit them there.

Or should we change that? Recruiting only in your lands might tie people down to their lands for longer and discourage them from attacking like we want them to. Would it be better to allow merc recruitment anywhere, as long as they were available?
Mercs have a more than one province wide recruitment zones. The same mercs I can buy at Bordeaux will deny the player at Paris from buying them. I think there's a map somewhere of the exact zones.