[Freeciv-Dev] Re: (PR#13683) Reducing the upgrade cost

["Brendon" <yautja@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

<URL: http://bugs.freeciv.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=13683 >

Jason Short wrote:
> <URL: http://bugs.freeciv.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=13683 >
> 
> And finally: another approach may be to change the shields recovered 
> when a unit is disbanded.  Currently it's at 50% but could range from 0 
> to 100%.  This would drastically affect upgrade costs.
> 
> -jason

A problem I noticed after I wrote those forum threads is the Legion. 
Costs 40 shields but upgrades to a 30 shield unit, if it goes >= 75% 
it'll be free to upgrade.

Although even just changing it to 60 - 70% would make a big difference 
for Monarchists upgrading all their Pikemen without Leonardos. At 70% 
they would cost 13 to upgrade instead of the current 25 gold.

-Brendon