What's the real deal with maintainance

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I've been reading conflicting opinions on how
maintainance works. I've read you can move
the slider from 50-100% on the last day of the
month and on the 1st day of the next month
morale is 100%.

But one of the hint boxes sez it takes
3 months. I mentioned this in another
thread but no one responded.

Whats the real deal?

 

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Originally posted by Kennison
I've been reading conflicting opinions on how
maintainance works. I've read you can move
the slider from 50-100% on the last day of the
month and on the 1st day of the next month
morale is 100%.

But one of the hint boxes sez it takes
3 months. I mentioned this in another
thread but no one responded.

Whats the real deal?

I guess it depends on how fast morale is returned and how much morale you have at 100%. Your more then welcome to try to find these things out and come back and tell us all =)

 

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Well, from what I can tell hint box #37 is just
plain wrong. Morale is reset at the begining of
each month according to where your maintainance
slider is set. If your army morale level is 3.5
and you move the slider to 50%, at the turn of
the month morale lvl is listed at 2.712 according
to the save file. When you move the slider back
to 100, morale lvl immediately jump back to 3.5
as soon as the month turns.

From a realism standpoint, that doesn't make a
whole lot of sense. Even by today's standards
a unit listed as 50% combat effectiveness(assuming
morale in the game means combat effectivenes, not
just how happy the troops are) is unlikely to
be lifted to 100% combat effectiveness in a
months time, let alone overnight.

 

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During the era, pay wasn't very regular. Perhaps putting the slider at 100% represents giving some money to the troops - they feel pretty good after they blow it all on wine and women. Or maybe I should say, they are too hung over to realize they are stilled owed money.