Maintenance&Training and Preparedness costs skyrocketing.

[madjack]

The problem is, I have close to 900 units (air, land, sea) and had a Maintenance&Training cost of 200m$ a day (all units in reserve, playing as moscow.)

After saving and reloading the same game, I start the clock, and after midnight - surprise: Maintenance&Training cost is now over 1000m$ a day. I can't fix it no matter what I do (before or after the increase)..

Shall I send the savegame?

[Balthagor]

sure, zipped with the following text please;

http://www.bgforums.com/forums/viewtopi ... 49&t=12971

[madjack]

I sent the save file.

[madjack]

I tested out and found out what's been triggering this bug. Very funny.

Plesetsk Cosmodrome -
Disabling all the facilities (orbital launch pad, sat control facility and aerospace fab) in that hex..

Although it was ok when I disabled and even scrapped the same facilities in Israel's territory. Maybe disabling the last owned facs is causing this issue.

[Hundane]

Does the increase in maintenance go down after its completly scrapped ?

[madjack]

Well, I've been checking but I found out other actions may trigger this too. Like disabling fabrications and sending units into reserves. I believe the problem may not be related to facilities but rather to some kind of miscalculation of maintenance costs, like calculating the units as deployed. (Maintenance costs still increase when I deploy units though)..

Still doing some tests..

[Balthagor]

So from the savegame, I should enable the cosmodrome and watch maintenance costs a few days, then disable and watch a few days?

[madjack]

i'm not sure that enabling the cosmodrome back would prevent the issue from happening. and just one day is enough.

i found out it's not related only to cosmodrome, applies to all fabs..

it just drove me crazy.. couldn't really find what's causing it. but everytime when I try to minimize my military spending by sending EVERYONE into reserves and deactivating ALL fabs, maintenance costs just change from 150-200m $ to over 1000m $.

[Balthagor]

k, I'll be looking into it later this week or next, currently testing other stuff...

[madjack]

ok. but i did some more tests you might want to hear about.

it's not a problem with my current game. i just started a new game with italy, starting maintenance cost is 18m $. locked everything (minister & goods), not producing anything, not deployed anything. just disabled all fabs. and..

maintenance&training costs are now 68m $. and enabling fabs from now on just pushes the costs higher (even over 100m $).

so i guess the major issue is this.

EDiT: Well, same thing happened when i loaded an earlier save and didn't disable any fabs. this is so weird.

[Balthagor]

I'm suspecting it's related to the inventory of missiles in reserves...

still investigating...

[madjack]

have you been able to find anything else about this? i'm still more than curious to find out what the actual issue is. i think this may be the hardest one to troubleshoot, since I was unable to relate it to any kind of a logical, single "trigger".. but i'll check with the missiles when i have the time.

best of luck btw.

[Collateral]

interresting comment balth, i had, at the time of my ss in other post, had been mass building the simple free-fall bombs and had @ 600k of them in stock. so perhaps your on the right path. hope this helps

[Balthagor]

Well, missiles are not the only reason but they are about 90% of the increase in cost it seems. We'll investigate further...

[madjack]

just tested - you're definitely correct.

for everyone who might have experienced this issue:
i was able to reduce the maint. costs from over 1000m$ back to about 150m$ by scrapping all the missiles..

thanks for the nice support!