by for » Sat Jun 29, 2013 1:09 am
Claim upkeep is 4 + claimed tiles/300 per day iirc.
Example: My main claim is medium sized at around 3000 tiles, that means it costs 4+3000/300=14 silver per day upkeep, which is not much for a settled player. 1 cotton covers that for example.
I had to put down initial costs of 3125s to claim it, that's the same as 223 days of upkeep! It gets worse with larger claims, so the upkeep doesn't really matter, the initial cost is the problem (for larger claims).
Town claims are a different matter, they don't cost much to enlarge, but the upkeep is much higher (40/day just for the minimum area).