Forts and Rails upgrading

[tyrel68]

One thing I noticed in this game is that it is useless to waste time upgrading each level of forts and time consuming to do the same for rails.

The one change that I can see making these things usefull is simply do the following:

1) You go to build a fort on a province
2) if you have no forts there already and researched lvl 3 forts
3) you begin building a lvl 3 fort no matter what
4) the penalty for skipping levels is an increased build time
5) this makes the 50 or so year build time for lvl 5 forts obselete
6) a good penalty for going from nothing to lvl 5 forts would be 10-20 years or so and maybe an increase in cost

Same for rails and any ideas would be great

 

[tyrel68]

Just to clarify, the rails are fine since you are forced to build them anyway but this would at least make it possible to build a lvl 5 fort before the turn of the century(maybe a little extreme...1880 is more like it)

Possible time penalties:

1)Starting level 0 End level 5 ( 5 levels x 4 Modifier = 20 years build time)
2)Starting level 3 End Level 5 ( 2 Levels x 4 Modifier = 8 years build time)

The cost could also be muliplied by the same mulitplier