Board Thread:Suggestions forum/@comment-27689279-20151115004814/@comment-25101089-20151115020453

Regarding the second suggestion, since that is suggested a lot, I will explain it again:

There is no 'secure' way to make such a thing possible. The game can record when the player hires a troop, but not when one is lost, because a troop could be lost by any number of untrackable ways besides just being killed: it could be removed by a command, be removed by a corrupt chunk, fall into the void, or something like that. So over long spans of time, the 'total number of hired troops' would gradually increase more and more above your actual number.

Because of this I think adding the first suggestion might just confuse people, and it would encourage more suggestions of the second suggestion.