REPAIR COSTS ARE WAY TOO HIGH

[Patricklus]

yea keep on trolling. you dont have fun dying every 5 secs do you ? even if they just lowered the repair costs on horses/weapon would help greatly cant use a heavy lance horse and a wep and make money even in peasent gear unless i ride a sumpter. not an option

[Vibe]

Was just telling you what your options are, but you are too stubborn.
Enjoy losing your gold.

Also, I don't die every 5 secs with tabard+leather gloves+staff, most of the times I even get a KD of 1.

[Patricklus]

well im no badass.. and yes i am stubborn

[DarkFox]

Repair costs are way too low.

[Blondin]

I agree upkeep should be higher.

[Espu]

Not being able to go in horseman gear every round.. Working as intended.

Raise upkeep, it's too low.

[Deathwhisper]

The problem of upkeep imo is that it's too random.

It should be a fix % of your total gear cost each round. Even if your total gear cost is quite low (20-30k), you can still lose a lot of money if you're unlucky enough to have your 8k weapon or armor break almost every round.

[Patricklus]

yea they just dont play cav so they dont know and they dont want too know they have all the gold they need so they dont care

[Fluffy_Muffin]

Build up a buffer and you should be fine

[Blondin]

I played cav last gen, will play cav next gen, i don't have a lot of money, but i use low/mid tier gear.
So yeah i care that upkeep is raised!

[Spawny]

Was making money nicely on battles servers with a steppe horse, heraldic mail with tabard, mail gauntlets, mail chausses, kettle helmet, knigtly heater shield and 1h weapon.

[Fluffy_Muffin]

Or sell one loompoint and you should be fine with gold for the rest of your days

[v/onMega]

Or sell one loompoint and you should be fine with gold for the rest of your days

This.
Offer it for 400k +, easiest way to get the money u need.

Cav is a freaking deadly class, it costs alot of money :-)

P.S:
I perfectly recall days WITHOUT ANY CAV... So u better spend time on solving ur problem instead of pointing your finger on ppl who grinded the shit out of the game ;-)

Sell the loompoint and you ll never have to be whiny again!!!

Vibe aint trolling, he gives u short, simple solutions :-)

[LordBerenger]

Here's the solution to all yer upkeep problems.

Get a fresh character Gen 1.
Level up to 20-25 and then right before you gain lvl 26, respec and keep doing this.

Because as Gen 1 you pay nothing in upkeep gold and thus u can use Tincan suit and plated charger all day long with no upkeep.

16/18 build is pretty fun and u can still be successful.
(16 Str being for u can use Black Armor / Milanese Plate etc...).

You pay nothing at all for upkeep. It's a perfect way to play tincan/heavy cav as.
Just like good old times Except gold gain is better and there's multi.

I expect chadz to nerf this next patch or so however (can't let people have fun ;/).

[Overdriven]

The majority is fine with the upkeep. It is, as always, a loud minority that tries to lobby.

I know you are upset, because you cannot afford the best equipment possible anymore. Or at least not all of the time. But I have to tell you, that was never intended. It is a bug, if you will.

People got so used to wearing the most expensive stuff all the time. It was our fault for not dealing with this earlier, because this is not how we want to see our game go. While we are not that much into reality in detail, we want to preserve a "global realism". And as many people have stated, wars and skirmishes weren't fought by platers, it was fought by poor people. Before the latest patch, I was wearing everything. I had high end armor, even gauntlets, an occasional horse, a big ass polearm and a secondary polearm that was faster. And I was still earning money.

This was not intended. I'd say it's different now (it isn't really because the upkeep increase was like 5 to 10% from the previous cost), but our idea is that you have to make a choice. Go for armor strength or for weapon strenght. Not both. If you want both, pay for it.

chadz quote on upkeep ^

I'd suggest downgrading your horse. I'm an HA and use steppe armour, leather gloves, nomad boots, horn bow, 3 sets of barbed arrows and a Courser costing around 34k in total. I have a steady buffer of about 35k gold for the bad days where I bleed money with no multipliers and repairs on the horse happen more than normal and the days where GK decide to use our Mamluks in heavy horse charges. But otherwise it's perfectly manageable. I'd suggest downgrading from the Destrier to a lower tier horse until you've built up some funds. Or if you want to be really extreme, sell a loom point when you get one.