Mercs

[Chris M]

Everytime i go to buy them at the moment it says not enough resources...

Buy Mercenaries
Mercenaries Type Cost Per Unit Quantity Available Quantity to Buy
Attacking Mercenaries 3,000 Naquadah 16,729,794
Defending Mercenaries 3,000 Naquadah 43,445,663
Untrained Mercenaries 1,500 Naquadah 5,010,141


so many there!

[Jackdaw]

proberly not a bug but an update

You cant have more mercs than you have supers

[Nigatsu_Aka]

ADDITIONALLY - each Merc (attack or defence) is paired with a 'super soldier' (attack or defence). This means that you can only have as many attack/def Mercs as you have supers of that type.

Do you have the supers? It seems it`s a new update.

[Chris M]

oh your having a laugh!

grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

[General Disorder]

I have that same problem, I was trying to make ascension cheap.

I guess I will have to rethink things though, what a bummer.

[DUDEY]

oh your having a laugh!

grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

join the club

[Nigatsu_Aka]

oh your having a laugh!

grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

join the club

Can i join?

This update came a little too late...

[TheWay]

I am having the same prob but if it were an update wouldnt they post the update

well this update sucks for those of us who bought all def supers to ahve att mercs since now we cant untrain supers but have no need for the mercs since def is already high

[Chris M]

luckily my merc based attack didnt require me to get extra supers. my defence was already sufficient and surplus to my merc needs

[Boober]

I'm not even sure what to say except I don't like it.

[Bazsy]

The merc system was abused. You can blame the abusers, but cant blame admin, because this is a solution for the abuse.

YOU all have to learn that if you abuse the game big time and try to get an unfair advantage, than steps will be taken.

So I don't wish to see whining here.

PS: Because I asked for the name of the cheaters more times, noone told any... now live with the new system. Good Luck.

[kvarga]

Ok. I post my question here too. From an another angle.

Well, the maximum merc tech gives you 105%, which means for 100 supers you should have 105mercs of that type. So that would be 1.05/1

Now at game updates it tells us, we get a lot more bonus:P 10% incr/ merc tech. That would be 1.8/1 for LG+1 and above...

And the merc market states that:

"ADDITIONALLY - each Merc (attack or defence) is paired with a 'super soldier' (attack or defence). This means that you can only have as many attack/def Mercs as you have supers of that type."


I say we have a major confusion here. And this is indeed a bug exept if the merc market has the truth from the 3 version:)

This means I buy merc tech levels, because I want more mercs. This is normal. I bought my 8th merc tech. That means in my reading, that I could buy
(1) 1.05:1 according to the former rules.
(2) 1.8:1 that is the newer announcement, but only for one type mercs, total remains 1.05:1.
(3) I can only buy 1:1. This was also the new update.

I tried it. The 3rd option is true. Then I have 2 questions:
(Q1) What is that sentence about the +10% for each tech level? Where can I use the benefit of that? Why did I buy the merc tech levels? Ok, that I cant use 1.8 for both def and att according the (1) statement, but still there is an option to buy more, isnt it? I suppose no. Then please remove the (1) and (2) statements from the rules.
(Q2) If only the (3) is true. I tried, it dont allow me to buy more attack mercs. Then the last merc tech level gives me only half benefit than I paid for. Where is my Naq?

So. These were my questions, but meanwhile I figured out.

(1) I could have max 1.05 mercs total.
(2) I cant buy more than 1:1 from each type.
(3) I can still get from commander more up to 1.8:1 from one type, but the total cant be more than 1.05.

Only one question remains: Is this ok?

[Bazsy]

I think it should be 1.8 / type and 1.05 altogether...
So thats a bug or on the to do list...

[kvarga]

It said cant buy more than 1:1, but can have.. Ok, thx for clarify.

[shedload]

LOL i cant believe i finally get the chance to buy some attack mercs and i'm not allowed unless i go train a load more supers , which kind of defeats my reason for wanting mercs
Oh well at least its a positive move and should result in the death of many uu's ..