War Cost

[rcalewis]

I am playing the Hissho and I am in an alliance but the war cost is eating me alive. I have a lot of dust but it decreases by a couple of K per turn. Is this normal?

[ninakoru]

Yeah already was there before latest path but obscured in a "dust inflation" cost.

Your ships and admirals cost your military upkeep, this is multiplied with a softer version of dust inflation, so military upkeep has inflation impacting the quantity.

But this reduced inflation gets incremented for each war you have, up to nearly tripling if you war every other player, is based on number of wars/number of players.

Either get your trade routes going for extra cash, or stop the war, you could also build ships without strategics and sell them to the market for extra cash.

If your have admirals you're not using they could cost you a little fortune, specially if levelled, return them to the academy and use them as governors as is far cheaper to maintain.

[rcalewis]

I am also using ESG1.6. Does this have an effect?

[ninakoru]

Until ESG updates war cost is way too high there. There's a pending compatibility update. Should be the same value in upkeep but all the upkeep is added to war cost except the base ships/admirals upkeep, so yes.

[rcalewis]

I sold 2 Admirals for an amazing amount of cash. Surprising how many hidden gems like this are in the game that no one would know about except through these forums. Thanks for your insight.

[Captain Cobbs]

We have an ESG update coming out today or tomorrow that will fix this issue, it's not intentional like Nina said