And building all the buildings in all your cities always is "exciting"? I'd say that this is both boring and mundane. At least processes can be run forever, so needs less micromanaging.
(Un)Happiness Brainstorm
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Another idea:
7. Yield buildings improve their respective processes. E.g. Science buildings improve science process by X%. That way it's worth to run science process in science focused city, culture process in culture focused city etc. It's also fits thematically.
7. Yield buildings improve their respective processes. E.g. Science buildings improve science process by X%. That way it's worth to run science process in science focused city, culture process in culture focused city etc. It's also fits thematically.
Yes, processes are "boring" and should be left as the something you do when you run out of all other things to do, design-wise. It currently also ignores all city yield modifiers except production (by design), and all instant production is lost while you're running a process (this is up to change).
I challenge that. Why only then? Why don't we make it a viable alternative when there are building to build, so it's an interesting trade-off decision?
Nightmare Dusk
Warlord
While it's a lot of work, my personal favorite to help fix the issue would be to add a ton of buildings (or increase prices) that it becomes impossible to build them all. Without completely changing how the happiness system works, you still have a few options on how to "specialize" cities. Idea that just came to mind is having every building give a yield, and reduce unhappiness of another. For example, You have markets, caravansaries, customs houses, etc. massively increase gold income (and merchant specialists) but also have a bunch a flat reduction to illiteracy, boredom, and distress. The library, university, public school, etc. massively increases science yields (and science specialists) while giving flat reduction to boredom, poverty, and distress. That way the city makes a bunch of a yield, but still stays relatively happy. Granted, this requires going through every building in the game and readjusting it to work this way, it's probably faster/easier to make adjustments to the happiness system. I don't actually expect us to do this, but it was a neat enough idea that i needed to share
So then you build a building for the trigger, not just for the sake of it.
