x3 Unit Costs and Upkeeps

[CanOmer]

These are from my long campaigns with this X3 costs mod;
(All of them on VH-H settings.)

Bactria


Carthage


Casse

[vartan]

Pahlava seems to be progressing alright. But nevertheless, I wonder the same thing Ludens does. How is tech affected? Have you tried a general survey of city tabs across the map using the spy command?

[CanOmer]

I did not control all you mentioned. But I can say few things;

- First years AI may not expand as fast as before.
- AI uses cheap units in first years, may be decades.
- Cities grow well, script gives enough money to develop them I think. With less armies, population becomes bigger also.

[Titus Marcellus Scato]

This looks like a mod that will make VH campaign more playable in the later stages - well done and good thinking!

I won't be using it myself, though, since I never play VH campaign - too hard for me, I prefer M campaign and slow progress.

[CanOmer]

This mod also can be use when you begin to think there are too many battles in the campaign. First time I did this; my Romani campaign which is started default unit costs and upkeeps is now in 233BC. And I tired of fighting every turn with same enemies. Now I am using x3 unit costs and upkeeps. So, there are less stacks and less battles, battles which are significative.

[fallen851]

Very interesting idea. I too like less battles and less stacks to make battles more significant.

[fomalhaut]

is perhaps x3 costs and upkeeps a little much? what about 1.5, or 2? I think more testing on this is necessary to make sure that development doesn't go down, where the AI just buys a bunch of crappy units instead of a bunch of expensive ones, yet still doesn't have paved roads.

the fundamental idea is great, for I hate the mid-late game stack fest of agemai or other elites just over and over. I want to feel like one battle was a big deal, rather than a daily occurrence.