Support costs for animals ?

[code99]

Is there a way to disable that ?

I understand the costs for military units and stuff but animals?
Im in prehistoric and was runing at 70% research with 4 gold income so all in all was doing ok and i had a decent "army" and after a while, i subdued some animals and kept some in my city for future use but then i noticed i was -11 gold , had to drop research to 0 ....

IMO animals should not require maintainance. I know i can kill animals and get food+hammers but i want to keep some ...

 

[DRJ]

Is there a way to disable that ?

I understand the costs for military units and stuff but animals?
Im in prehistoric and was runing at 70% research with 4 gold income so all in all was doing ok and i had a decent "army" and after a while, i subdued some animals and kept some in my city for future use but then i noticed i was -11 gold , had to drop research to 0 ....

IMO animals should not require maintainance. I know i can kill animals and get food+hammers but i want to keep some ...

This is intended. If you capture an 'eagle' for example and you want to build a 'feather worker' with it once you researched 'bone working', you can decide if you want to pay the maintenance costs for the 'eagle' for a certain amount of time before it pays off (let's say bone working still 3 techs away) or sacrifice it right away.

I do agree that it is unreasonable to have same maintenance for a battalion of eagles like for an army of 1000 men, however I think you get the picture: one time you butcher, hoping to catch same animal again, later, one time you keep it and pay to get higher benifits out of it later. It's an investment, then.

 

[code99]

Good point. Anyway, i've solved my economy issues for the moment so i can keep a few.

Thanks

 

[Dancing Hoskuld]

Is there a way to disable that ?

I understand the costs for military units and stuff but animals?
Im in prehistoric and was runing at 70% research with 4 gold income so all in all was doing ok and i had a decent "army" and after a while, i subdued some animals and kept some in my city for future use but then i noticed i was -11 gold , had to drop research to 0 ....

IMO animals should not require maintainance. I know i can kill animals and get food+hammers but i want to keep some ...

There is no military support for animals per se. However there is military support for the number of units you have and that includes animals, workers, missionaries as well as military units.

 

[code99]

so i guess "excluding" the animals from that aint easy right ?

 

[Daft73]

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so i guess "excluding" the animals from that aint easy right ?

..though it's not SO bad, Sure if you have to raise them..keep them around for awhile you must pay for said creatures food and housing of sorts.

Can't tell you how much I pay for our 2 cats, dog, turtle, and the 5 fish a year, let alone, over great spans of time.

 

[code99]

..though it's not SO bad, Sure if you have to raise them..keep them around for awhile you must pay for said creatures food and housing of sorts.

Can't tell you how much I pay for our 2 cats, dog, turtle, and the 5 fish a year, let alone, over great spans of time.

oh i can only guess how much u spend on em ... anyway, i dont mind having expenses for animals and stuff, my last question bout excluding them was just out of curiosity