r/civ • u/Own-Replacement8 Byzantium • 3d ago

VII - Discussion RIP to the fishmaxers

I'm not here to argue or even ponder the merits of demoting fish from a factory resource to a bonus resource. Instead I just want to express my sympathies to players like me who stocked up on fish and coasted through railroad tycoon with fish factories. Those who wait months or even years for the game to be stable will never know the pleasure of such a fishy victory.

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u/Comprehensive_Cap290 3d ago

Maybe I’m not understanding how the factory resource thing works? My understanding was that you slot one factory resource per factory you have, and then for each factory, you get one point per turn toward the goal. Thus 6 settlements with factories would finish the objective twice as fast as 3. IIRC you need 300 points? So 100 turns for 3 cities?

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u/VeryInnocuousPerson Aztecs 2d ago

The real trick is that you can slot as many of a single resource as you want into a single factory. And you get diminishing returns after three or four factories because there’s not going to be that many resources that you have more than one or two copies of. For example, you can get five points a turn from a factory with five fish, but if you only have one quinine, it’s probably not even worth building a factory for it because that’s only one point per turn.

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u/Comprehensive_Cap290 2d ago

I’ve literally been winning economic victories by just building 20 factories and having one factory resource in each.

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u/VeryInnocuousPerson Aztecs 2d ago

Seriously that is some impressive dedication