Board Thread:General Mod Discussion/@comment-27237992-20151117180743/@comment-27718380-20151118215222

LOTRMod wrote: "Upkeep" for troops has been suggested so many times before. But I think that nobody really imagines how it would feel in-game. Really, such a feature would just get annoying, and put people off hiring troops. It would be repetitive, extremely simple (just grow more food), and would thus add nothing beyond more grinding. It would add realism, and most people don't run around with a personal bodyguard thus they would be in unloaded chunks. I am well aware that upkeep would have been asked for many times before, but the thing is there isn't enough grinding in my mind. You progress far too quickly if you sit there for even an hour mining you can go from stone tools to mithril, which is very quick in my opinion. Already people have huge farms and so on, so I don't see the problem with adding something which makes the game harder, and more realistic.