Anomalous income

[Valectar]

Is there a way to view a breakdown of where income is coming from? Because one turn I had a resonable income of about 90,000, and then next it jumped to 716,039. Could this relate to the international bank, which generates mysterious debt points? I've had the bank for a few turns but perhaps some threshold of debt points was just reached this turn?

Basicaly, is this supposed to happen under some conditions or is it a bug?

[Valectar]

I have identified the source of the additional income. Turns out a factory surrounded by 8 other factories gets a 481.89x bonus to crowns, and ends up producing ~400,000 crowns individually. Is this intentional behavior, as it dwarfs the income I get from all other sources combined! And iirc, factories are available from the beginning of the game, so if I had realized their potential earlier I probably wouldn't have bothered with any of the other income generating buildings at all.

[kasnavada]

I think you can mantis this =).

That sounds way too high.

[Shrugging Khan]

Huh. I thought it was meant to work this way, since the changelog mentioned that factories were meant to be the big money-makers now.

...I guess my multi-million income was a *bit* high.

[ptarth]

Didn't factories used to not be placeable adjacent to each other?

[Cinth]

Didn't factories used to not be placeable adjacent to each other?

If it was, it was before I was included.

[kasnavada]

Huh. I thought it was meant to work this way, since the changelog mentioned that factories were meant to be the big money-makers now.

...I guess my multi-million income was a *bit* high.

Most "starting" building and even banks and similar stuff give money in the hundreds / thousands, so yes... 400 000 / building is way to high. Actually, I think that 10 000 / turn is already very high (if a single building / action can reach that I think it's in need of a nerf).

As far as "corrections" are concerned, I think factories should not boost each other in any case - IMO factories transform resources, they don't build stuff in closed circuit for infinite income. Not being adjacent may work, as would lowering their multiplicative bonus.

[Cinth]

Factories boost Industry related crown income by 2.8 

You also need 14k pop to get that from just one factory.

[Shrugging Khan]

You can cut out one factory and use a mine, or theoretically any high-crown-value industrial building as the centerpiece. It may only add up to 200k rather than 400k, but that's still enough to win the game.

[crazyroosterman]

you know all the idea of having a ring of factorys does is make me wonder how on earth your with the ridicules amount of pollution that must cause 0_0

[Valectar]

With the amount of cash it generates, I can afford to surround that ring in as my an Hasmats as it takes to eat all the polution

[Valectar]

Also, I noticed this bug just after I noticed that I can sell off military products and such for a good amount of money, which requires the manufacturing points from factories to do. I guess this is what they meant by making factories the big money maker, as if you can get a few good quality inventions you can make a lot of money. Not the unwholesome amount of money generated by factories currently, but it could have become the majority of my income if I had pursued it further.

[Shrugging Khan]

you know all the idea of having a ring of factorys does is make me wonder how on earth your with the ridicules amount of pollution that must cause 0_0

I don't. When you have income in the multiple hundreds of thousands, you're bound to win pretty quickly in any way you like.