
Originally Posted by
kassikas
Troops are just another form of resource, just like food and gold and wood and such. No one wants to spend their resources on something less valuable then what they already have. No one would spend a million wood on ten thousand wood would they? Why would they spend troops that take hours to build and millions of resources on hundreds of thousands of resources?
If they do use those troops to gain resources, they only do it for a decent profit, as troops require both resources AND time to build. And what do people spend those resources on after their cities and techs are maxed out?
More troops. That is the only thing they can spend their resources on.
This is called inflation. A 100k army is devalued because the only thing there is worth getting your troops killed for is enough resources to build a larger, say 150k army.
Then a 150k army is devalued because the only thing worth spending it on is a 225k army.
Then the 225k army is devalued because the only thing worth spending it on is a 338k army.
And so on and so on until people have millions of troops.
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