[0.291] House upgrade automatic cos [FIXED]

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I noticed my gold amount crashed without warning and discovered that accepting the House tech was the culprit.  Huts immediately became houses (as intended by the Devs).  That's a nice feature but the cost can be quite substantial -- 1000 gold in this case.  I had 20 completed houses, 8 more being built, the listed house cost is 50, so it's automatically deducting 50 gold per completed house.

I'm not sure what the best answer is, but going from +149 gold to -851 can be problematic  ;)

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Reply #1 from Elemental Forums Top

Yes, I saw that in my last game also.  It dropped my treasury from about 950 gold to less than 50 in one turn.  I didn't get a chance to see if it upgraded all my huts or only as many as I could afford.  By the time I thought of looking at that it was several turns later and the game had crashed.

Reply #2 from Elemental Forums Top

Maybe being able to allocated X% of our money to automatic improvements a turn would fix this.

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Reply #3 from Elemental Forums Top

X% will not work if you are low in currency. May be I want to upgrate huts and get into dept?

Reply #4 from Elemental Forums Top

It's not so bad if you are lucky enough to get housing early in the game.  I found out in my last game that they'll only level up after your town becomes a hamlet.  So when I got housing I only had one hamlet and 4 huts that upgraded, and the two other towns I founded later upgraded their huts only when they'd grown to hamlets.  It was easier to manage the gold with it happening that way.

Reply #5 from Elemental Forums Top

I don't eleive this is as designed...these upgrades should be, basically, free (you've paid for it by whatever it took to get to the next city level).

We'll look into it.

Reply #6 from Elemental Forums Top

This issue has now been fixed; upgrading improvements (either under construction or already constructed) will cost you no additional gold.  Thanks for pointing this out, guys.