1.05 - Recruitment Cost Bug

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At some point in my sandbox game, it seems wandering champions suddenly get a huge gildar cost. As in costing 4294967296 to hire. Since I can't track them in this game (from my last save game finding one is at least several turns and I've done several things), I can't add any more real specifics without trying to put everything on hold, finding a champ, and following them while doing only one thing at a time. And that'd be... as time consuming as a whole campaign.

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Reply #1 from Elemental Forums Top

What level are they, how much hero tech have you researched in the Adventure tree, and what's your charisma? All of these factor into champion prices.

Reply #2 from Elemental Forums Top

The first one or two champions I stumble across are normal in price. There's a decent delay between the first one or two champs I see (and hire) and when I find the next few. When this happens...

The wandering champs are level 1.

No hero techs; only one adventure/resource tech researched. In one attempt on this map, I tried to post-correct the bug by researching Recruitment. Didn't change it. I will try researching Recruitment earlier and see if that changes it though on two separate plays (I saved at the very beginning of the game so I have, presumably, a fresh clean set up to work from) I was able to hire one more champ before it happened.

Sovereign charisma is 10.

Galactic Civilizations III
Reply #3 from Elemental Forums Top

Researching it doesn't seem to fix it. I also noted a duplicate champion - Ratek. Who I also now see has Janusk's description and history (both mine and the wandering one).

Reply #4 from Elemental Forums Top

I believe that the AI get "Janusk's" as well. Basically everyone starts with one free champion to get the game rolling. It's a problem that they didn't recruit the free champion though...

Reply #5 from Elemental Forums Top

I've also seen duplicates of other champions too though. On a side note, this game in particular is fairly unusual as I seem to have almost an entire continent to myself. I had only seen one minor race after 40 turns in one and 70 or so in the other playthrough - the latter one, it was only because I built a ship and was sailing the coast. Too bad the map set up could be fubar - it was a nice set up! Lots of land, a number of spires...