XivaKnight
Recruit
Presently, being a mercenary for a kingdom is pretty awful. For one thing, you're barely going to turn a profit even if you're locked in combat 24-7. Either your enemies are too weak to be valuable, or you're too weak to take on higher value targets. Assuming you enter the middling range, you're just going to be leaking denars 24-7, struggling to maintain. But I actually wouldn't mind all that terribly much, if it weren't for the fact that joining an Army (The thing you're supposed to really be doing as a mercenary in times of war) is a nearly guaranteed way to **** yourself.
You don't get any influence while in the army. So if you're stuck in a siege, you're just going to be bleeding denars by the thousands. If the army runs out of food, which is almost guaranteed will, it will consume your food, and the influence gain isn't nearly enough to cover the costs of even the food alone. By the time the siege breaks up, you the player are left with no food, no money, no battle, and no immersion.
You don't get any influence while in the army. So if you're stuck in a siege, you're just going to be bleeding denars by the thousands. If the army runs out of food, which is almost guaranteed will, it will consume your food, and the influence gain isn't nearly enough to cover the costs of even the food alone. By the time the siege breaks up, you the player are left with no food, no money, no battle, and no immersion.