Does gifting relieve you of maintenance?

[robvollman]

My unit maintenance was too high, and I noticed the Greeks getting beat up by its neighbours, so I gifted it my most obsolete units. But my maintenance costs didn't go down. I even waited a few turns to see if it was a delayed reaction, but no. Do I have to keep maintaining those suckers? Or perhaps obsolete units don't count against maintenance so I gifted them for nothing?

 

[aimlessgun]

Well it used to be that it only changed maintainence ever other unit, but I thought it got fixed in the patch.

If you gifted multiple units your costs should have gone down.

 

[KrikkitTwo]

Perhaps they patched it so that unit maintenance never goes down.

 

[Agent327]

My unit maintenance was too high, and I noticed the Greeks getting beat up by its neighbours, so I gifted it my most obsolete units. But my maintenance costs didn't go down. I even waited a few turns to see if it was a delayed reaction, but no.

If you had population growth during those turns the maint reduction might well be nullified. If you delet a unit, your maint goes down.

 

[Wurlf]

It definitely goes down when I give to city-states. I never tried giving to another civ though.