Anyone come up with a solution to low production?

[Nefelia]

Low production cities should just slowly build the districts that they have the best adjacency bonus for, with rivers a commercial hub, with mountains a campus and so on. Forget trying to boost their hammers just use the hammers they do have as efficiently as possible and build only the essential districts and buildings. Transfer hammers to them by building builders in other cities or buying them, and send internal trade routes bringing hammers and food. They can still be very useful with low production just don't build units there or try for wonders, you have other high production cities specialised to do that (or should have )

Yep. Send a trader to the city so it can form a route to a core city for the +food and +production. As for which districts they build, adjacency bonuses are a consideration, but I tend to use marginal cities to work on districts that I neglect throughout the rest of the empire. Also commercial districts and harbours, just for the +trade routes.

 

[Nefelia]

Industrial districts and Entertainment Complex tier 2 and 3 buildings have a radius of 6 tiles.

Spoiler :

All 5 of those cities are getting bonus production from each factory.

Now, apparently I misplaced Damascus' Industrial zone - it should have been one tile to the left. It isn't affecting Baghdad. The idea is still the same though - do something like this in your games and you wont have much of an issue with production scaling through out the ages.

I'd suggest getting at least 3-4 cities being able to influence each other with their industrial zones, if not more.

Interestingly enough, my empire only has three industrial powerhouses, and their location was determined more by the presence of hills for +4 to +6 adjacency bonuses for the IZ. I haven't even built any factories yet because they aren't really worth the expenditure.

But my situation is far from the norm, given that I am running a theocratic government with +300 faith/turn. Other play styles (high commerce, for instance) can also forego the factory-stacking style.

 

[Ornen]

In my current game I managed to land both Tesla & Toronto for a 12-tile range on one of my factories... The industrial might of Germany is now truly continental

I missed the Ruhr by two turns though...

 

[lamaros]

Yeah I think it entirely depends on the cities, civ you're going with and playstyle.

The idea that you need huge production in every city isn't necessarily true in a lot of game, IMO, especially later cities.

 

[isau]

You should only go for a Science/Culture focus after you have your traders/factorys/mines kicking in, otherwise you will feel like it takes forever to build stuff.

Focusing on them gives little to no reward because the production cost of higher tech stuff you unlock goes up exponentially (each new era unit/wonder/building has like double the production cost of the equivalent from the era before it), so there is no gain in focusing on tech before production because even if you invest so much in culture/tech that you will unlock units/wonders a reasonable time earlier, you will lack the production to build it effectively anyway.

Turns out it's worse than this--each culture or tech node you collect is actually penalizing your hammers by increasing district costs. This is no doubt part of why people are getting hosed by hammers. If you do anything other than beeline the "correct" techs hammer costs will snowball.

 

[RaidandTrade]

I'd suggest getting at least 3-4 cities being able to influence each other with their industrial zones, if not more.

 

[Kouvb593kdnuewnd]

Build districts with production and rush buy buildings.

 

[rrrwww]

way i see it:

unless you need faith, every city should build monument then commercial district then industrial district. use commercial district for inland trade, one route from every city to capitol, upgrade capitol

many poor cities with bad food but good production with hills etc are actually some of the best non capitol cities, all they need is one trade route to capitol

 

[Kouvb593kdnuewnd]

Don't build monuments. Start with a district, industrial zone is a good start due to production speeding up the construction of other district. Then the zone is finished rush buy all buildings for it which will boost all nearby cities production.

 

[Esperr]

M-A-G-N-N-U-S

unless this is one of the obligatory best/max threads where you don't actually want the soulless robot response. Then DIK

 

[ezysquire]

M-A-G-N-N-U-S

As above, get chopping. And do it with the cards for maximum production.

 

[Arent11]

What is it with the people who join the forum & immediately necro an age old thread? Do they arrive from google or something?

 

[Browd]

No telling. Thread closed.