Germany the only country paying maintenance

[Hellfirejet]

ORIGINAL: FOARP

Hmm . . . in 1.30 it was 10 (it's the gameplay.FreeUpkeep attribute in game.lua, right?) This seems a more sensible amount given that the statistic was seemingly only there to allow countries that lost their cities to maintain a small army.

Lowering it to 30 is definitely an improvement, but it should probably still be lower. In your screen-shot you can see that Austria-Hungary is gaining 27 PP every turn compared to Germany's 39 PP, but Germany has almost twice as much industry, and this difference seems to only be due to the free upkeep.

I look forward to seeing the next patch.

Hi FOARP I'm sure you will be interested to hear, that Free Upkeep has now been set at 10.[;)]

[FOARP]

Great, if the same balance in output can be kept then that sounds like it should lead t a better game.

Having the free upkeep so high wasn't so great for game play - you'd get the situation where, even after you had taken Paris and intercepted the French convoys, France would still be able to maintain a large army capably of blocking any advance further into France. The situation where you'd taken both Serbian capitals yet the Serbs were still able to maintain an army of 6-7 units also wasn't that great.