[GS] The Campus is still OP. And also boring.

[acluewithout]

I agree it would be a hard sell. But in some ways I think it would make science more important - because you couldn’t just default to spamming Campuses to get it.

 

[HorseshoeHermit]

In any tech progression game, science is always going to be the best long-term path. There really isn't any way around it that's not laughably unrealistic.

No, only because of other assumptions.

The tech progress enables new kinds of actions. That is the only essential feature of a research system.

Some other things that tech progress does which it doesn't have to do, is move up the cap on total enhancement to all your assets. When you enable Factories, you're not just getting factories, you're allowing Factories to be added to your Workshops. And every city only has 1 workshop - that's not necessary either.

If there is no such thing as a single bucket of enhancement that is restricted by science, it's less certain that science is necessarily the best long term path. Investments that are allowed to multiply at a given scientific level, or development that proceeds outside of science (and feeds back on itself), can challenge the supremacy of a science-first strategy.