champion recruiting cost is -256 gildar

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I'm playing with a custom kingdom and sovereign. I have de betrayers ability and my sovereign recruits champions for free. At some point in the game, I can't recruit champions anymore, as the recruiting cost is in negative gildar. Usually -256 gildar, but sometimes it's another absurd negative amount. In my most recent game, I surrounded the unrecruitable champion with units as to prevent it's recruitment by my enemies, but they recruited it nonetheless. Anyone else has had this problem?

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Reply #1 from Elemental Forums Top

With your Kingdom, was the negative recruiting cost only with Empire heroes?  Or was it all L7 and L9 heroes of both alignments?  My theory is that it has something to do with the Betrayers faction ability combined with the Natural Leader sov ability with L7 and L9 heroes, but it's only a guess.

Reply #2 from Elemental Forums Top

It wasn't only empire heroes. In my first .915 game it was all lvl 7 and 9 heroes. In my second game I was able to recruit 3 lvl 7 champions, I stopped playing and the next day when I reloaded I wasn't able to recruit a lvl 7 hero.

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Reply #3 from Elemental Forums Top

Have you ever had this bug when playing without the Betrayers faction trait?

Reply #4 from Elemental Forums Top

This happens when you have the natural leader trait (i.e. heroes are free) and then build something that further reduces the cost (like the adventurers guild). It is a bug and should be reported in the FE support section so they can fix it for the next patch.