What are the effects of being negative Supply?

[CaptainPatch]

Spent pretty much the entire game with negative Supply. No tooltip on Supply that I can detect. The inclination is to think Something Bad will be happening. Reduced city production or something of the sort. But I can't find an explanation anywhere.

 

[Yzman]

I thought it was increased military maintenance cost, but I am probably wrong on that.

 

[aguliondew]

The only thing I have seen was it decreases your production. I recruited a ton of defector doing a OCC. Its a red line next to the resource bar at the top when you go over supply. It is rare for your civ to not be able to support a army.

 

[Lucius_]

It can be a pretty hefty production penalty. As far as I could tell, it's 10% PER UNIT. I had 34 units and my civilization could only support 30, and it was a 40% production penalty in all cities.

 

[player1 fanatic]

The only thing I have seen was it decreases your production. I recruited a ton of defector doing a OCC. Its a red line next to the resource bar at the top when you go over supply. It is rare for your civ to not be able to support a army.

Unlike Civ, it's not so rare in BtE, since it includes all units, not just military units, including all those traders, satellites and workers. It's not uncommon that 70-80% of player support is getting eaten by civilians.

 

[CaptainPatch]

Ow. On average over the course of 700+ turns, I was at @-20 Supply. But that didn't seem to hinder my growth or production all that much

Anybody know the formula for just how max Supply is calculated?

 

[Monado]

http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=537742

Saw this in the bug report forum. Maybe you're having the same issue.

 

[player1 fanatic]

Hmm...
So according to bug report, traders are not counted as supply unit, they are added to supply in UI by mistake.


I guess that makes getting into supply problem much less an issue.

Exempt if playing with single city. I just remember one other thread in this forum where someone had supply problem (with low supply actually being penalty to him).


EDIT:
Makes me a fool in my last game for not trying to build more. My military was always effective but scaled down to 20-30% of units total, due to thinking that all those traders eat my supply.