Factories

[Brew God]

Hello Fellow Civ 7 Fans - What is the easiest way to build Factories? Some cities can and most can't. Do you need to have the Oil source located in your territory? When Civ 7 launched, I was able to build many factories and now I am having problems getting them up and running.

Any helpful tips would be great. Thanks

Brew God

 

[Serenya]

You have to build a railroad in the settlement (the downside of islands), be connected to the capital, and if a town the factory specialization which requires a factory resource (unless using the mod that make factories available for the mining specialty)

 

[Calcifer]

You don’t need a factory specialization to build factories in town, that specialization just makes them cheaper to buy and gives you and additional resource slot.

 

[Serenya]

You don’t need a factory specialization to build factories in town, that specialization just makes them cheaper to buy and gives you and additional resource slot.

I don’t recall seeing the option on my farming towns, I’ll definitely check tonight!

 

[Kwami]

I can confirm that you don't need to choose the factory specialization to build a factory in a town. I know this because I regularly forget to choose the specialization before buying the factory and so I end up wasting a lot of gold!

 

[Boris Gudenuf]

The primary requirement to build a Factory is a rail connection to your Capital, which can be either a straight Rail Station/Railyard connection between the two settlements, or a combination of Railroad Station/Port to connect across bodies of water. The game, of course, makes it insanely difficult to tell exactly when you have a valid connection.

The biggest problem I have with the Civ VII system is that the Modern Age Tech Tree puts the Rail Station in the 2nd Tier of the tree, which is about right (first scheduled railroad service started in 1830 CE) but then puts the Factory in the 3rd Tier - the same tier with WWI aircraft and radio stations in it, when the first factories complete with steam power for their machinery showed up over a century earlier in the 1780s! Stationary steam engines to power factories of all kinds, in fact, should appear half a century before Railroads, not a tier later in conjunction with military equipment from over a century later.

 

[TheMarshmallowBear]

In regards to Rail Stations, you may have to build Rail Stations inside towns that are between your settlemenets, which can be quite confusing, usually your settlement becomes correctly connected when the roads become railroads after you buy the Rail Station near the settlement, then the settlement is connected.