Who thought it was a good idea to make the US age 3 factory cost 250 wood and 250 food. Seriously that is stupid and kinda defeats the purpose of the card. Who comes up with these changes
Well it’s normally an Age 4 shipment and allows you a 3rd factory wagon card.
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Yes, but it is still a stupid to change it. That was the main perk for the US
It was kinda needed, maybe not in this way but to bring it in line with the others. There was literally no reason to not go New Hampshire but now it makes the other options seem just a little better. It would’ve been nice to see the others buffed instead of New Hampshire nerfed tho
Yeah but I’m still gonna go for the factory every game. This just makes it annoying
They did buff the others. Indiana shipment comes fast, tennessee comes with settlers, and kentucky gives you two coal mines (although not infinite)
1 factory is too good. Unless you set an extremely high cost (which is of course a bad idea), there is no reason to go for other options.
I’d even prefer giving some other economic bonus instead of the factory. 1 factory has too much value and very hard to tune (just like since you cannot make 1.75 falc, you cannot design a slightly weaker version of 2 falc).
Or make the age3 factory have lower work rate. Then what is the point of sending an age 3 factory anyway.
It’s difficult to balance because that was always the only option ever chosen, the others needed stronger buffs imo. That being said the factorys not all that important especially if you FI because you’ll still only be able to have 2 factories whatever happens. Something like 2 coal mines could be good to FI maybe, haven’t looked into the other changes yet.
If they nerfed it that much and it’s still so good that you choose it every time, the nerf was probably necessary.
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More accurately every other option for age 3 is trash and is still trash. Kentucky change is a nerf for outlaw builds (which were ruined anyway with the dance hall shadow nerf) and all other age 3 options are either unusable or not worth sending a card for.
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I never send the factory card and I am quite good with Murica.
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Everyone was picking it because us economy is trash in early game and the factory was leveling the field.
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They feel better now than ever, maybe not for prolonged age 3 but if you’re planning on getting to age 4 fast you can make good use of the other options, tennessee giving you another vill card plus a few extras, also the outposts giving 10 pop isn’t bad now, especially for an FI it will let you save wood on houses and you make use of the outposts for defense until you reach industrial.
Kentucky is not bad either, giving you 4k gold from 2 mines that gather double the normal rate, you can get to age 4 really fast and then just send the 2 factories like normal and still have an extra 3k of fast gathering coin. 2 sharpshooters per shipment is great too.
Not tried indiana yet but now that it arrives fast it might not be so bad.
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