MERCENARY LIMIT WITHIN ONE'S ARMY (Main server)

[Zeca Ralho]

I've noticed that it doesn't work when one buys One merc at a time. I recieved the following message:

"You can only have 45 percent (base of 25 plus 20 percent in upgrades) of your trained troops as mercenaries. Beyond that, you do not have enough troops loyal to you to ensure compliance to your orders.
(You have:
16352 Trained Mercs.
36324 Trained Military Units.
You can have a maximum of 16345.8 Trained Mercs)."

Well, as you see I have more mercs than I'm allowed to. I managed to do this buying one merc at a time. I know it isn't much but doing this every turn every day I can gather hundreds of mercs more than my army should have.

[Munchy]

It is a known bug. I would pity the clicking finger of someone trying to raise their army by this means though

[Zeca Ralho]

well, If I see anyone walking around with an index finger the size of Hulk's I'll make sure to lmao and call him a cheater

[Zatnikitelman]

Actually (and I use this for other-non-bug-exploiting-uses) to do that, hit tab till buy is highlighted, then hold down Enter. Don't know about Mac or Linux machines but works in Windows. Maybe that should be a bug in and of itself. Could we have a ruling by a Power That Be (APTB)?

[Rukia]

the bug has been around since the begining of the game...it only increases in effectiveness with merc tech levels too

[Wolf359]

Actually - if you keep buying 1 merc at a time - you will find that once you get to 10 mercs over your limit, you will not be able to buy any more.