Can't contract out mercenaries??

[tariqari]

Hey,

So for the first time since CIV 3, I actually started an "Emperor" game tonight with India. I'm doing okay...unstable but still booming!....

So I've built everything there is to build and waiting for my next tech, I'm really poor so I decided to contract out mercenaries for extra gold. I placed two mercenaries for hire and China contracted one...but now I can't find out where they went! When I go to the mercenary manage contract window, both my contracted mercenary and the one in the pool have disappeared, and I don't have any option to list more mercenaries...

Considering I don't have anything left to build besides warriors, I'm really in a spin and I need to get rid of my extra warriors. Is this a bug? Or am I unaware of something else?

 

[dionysos2048]

same problem here
very annoying

 

[tariqari]

Well that's kind of good to know it's not just me, the real question is whether this is a bug or if I'm doing something wrong.

 

[Party]

Mercenaries? What the hell are you talking about? Is this some feature I have majorly overlooked?

 

[tariqari]

Mercenaries? What the hell are you talking about? Is this some feature I have majorly overlooked?

Apparently...

 

[Party]

Apparently...

Explain. I've been playing for three years now....

 

[tariqari]

Just click on the hammer in the upper left corner of the screen, hang on Ill post a screenshot

 

[tariqari]

My mistake...it's an axe. Upper left corner of screen beneath the gold counter. If you still can't find it, look it up in the civopedia > RFC Concepts > Mercenaries.

 

[Zhuge_Liang]

So, Mr. Party(if you are), how's the tale going???

 

[Party]

So, Mr. Party(if you are), how's the tale going???

Oh, what tale would that be?

 

[Corm]

Mercs are a wee bitty buggy atm. If you hire out 2 or more of the same type in the same turn you loose all of them except the first. So you hire out 3 archers on one turn the next turn you will only see 1 remaining in the box. The others vanish. You can however hire out say a maceman and archer and chariot on the same turn safely.

If a unit dies in service it vanishes from the box too obviously and you dont always notice the mesage (or even get one) for the merc dieing in combat.

Finally as you have noticed hiring out is just plain buggy. Sometimes I hire out a unit and it works fine other times it just vanishes and there appears to be no rhmye or reason to it.

I also noticed that if I have hired out a merc and try to recall it they rarely return now. I belive as of the last patch they are continent specific now too but I havent tried hiring out mercs with the new patch. I assume the problems above still exist though.

Still if your heamoraging money and have plenty of units I still think its worth the risk.

 

[Zhuge_Liang]

Never mind......................

 

[utopian201]

Mercs are a wee bitty buggy atm. If you hire out 2 or more of the same type in the same turn you loose all of them except the first. So you hire out 3 archers on one turn the next turn you will only see 1 remaining in the box. The others vanish. You can however hire out say a maceman and archer and chariot on the same turn safely.

If a unit dies in service it vanishes from the box too obviously and you dont always notice the mesage (or even get one) for the merc dieing in combat.

Finally as you have noticed hiring out is just plain buggy. Sometimes I hire out a unit and it works fine other times it just vanishes and there appears to be no rhmye or reason to it.

I also noticed that if I have hired out a merc and try to recall it they rarely return now. I belive as of the last patch they are continent specific now too but I havent tried hiring out mercs with the new patch. I assume the problems above still exist though.

Still if your heamoraging money and have plenty of units I still think its worth the risk.

I fixed it here:

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Post in thread 'RFC: BtS Bug Reports'

Aug 5, 2025

There is an issue where you could only contract out one type of mercenary; eg if you contract out
1 war elephant
1 spearman
1 war elephant
Then click back on the contracts tab, the first war elephant would be gone.
I've fixed the error so you can contract out as many of the same type as you like

Unzip the file to Rhye's and Fall of Civilization\Assets\Python\MercenaryUtils
Make sure to backup MercenaryUtils.py, but I've included a copy of the original just in case

• utopian201