In a recent game i noticed this weird behavior.
I started a 1900's game and decided to be very stingy in the beginning. So I did not put any money into component research the first couple of years.
When I started funding my teams started at 20-30ish in morale. Because no funding kills morale. This I am fine with.
The problem however is that no amount of later funding or engineer salaries can bring morale up again. I have tried to triple engineer salaries and I have tried doubling the funding (if you punch in the number it is possible to put in more than what the 100% slider will give you) .
No matter what i tried even over many years morale never came up again, and the low morale meant my component research was halved for the rest of the game.
I think this is a bug, the game can not be meant to permanently punish the player if they bring the morale down?
IMHO if it is possible to bring the morale down. Then it should also be possible to gain the morale back again.
I started a 1900's game and decided to be very stingy in the beginning. So I did not put any money into component research the first couple of years.
When I started funding my teams started at 20-30ish in morale. Because no funding kills morale. This I am fine with.
The problem however is that no amount of later funding or engineer salaries can bring morale up again. I have tried to triple engineer salaries and I have tried doubling the funding (if you punch in the number it is possible to put in more than what the 100% slider will give you) .
No matter what i tried even over many years morale never came up again, and the low morale meant my component research was halved for the rest of the game.
I think this is a bug, the game can not be meant to permanently punish the player if they bring the morale down?
IMHO if it is possible to bring the morale down. Then it should also be possible to gain the morale back again.