Basically there are two ideas at the moment:
1: Set a specific day (weekday or wkend, whichever is better for the majority) and hire long duration mercs for as much of it as possible. Just work to farm as many set items between us as possible on that day.
This could be either weekly or bi-weekly, whatever.
2: Set a merc price limit, say 50k per day, and just hire as and when needed. If we skipped days the gold could roll over to the next, stacking up.
It comes down to whether you guys think structured mercenary use or flexbility is better for us. Let me know what the opinions are......