The amount of trade value produced by the Temple of Prosperity Branch office building provided by the Gospel of the Masses civic at no point outweighs the resources provided by any of the other branch office buildings available, making the opportunity cost of building a temple not worth the return. Though on paper +50% spiritualist ethic attraction looks like a lot, in practice this modifier does little to increase the amount of spiritualists on a planet. Even if it did, .33 trade value per pop is a very small amount, especially considering that a branch office is only able to take advantage of half of that. Even taking into account the trade value of the prosperity preacher jobs provided, a simple mining building would produce more resources.
Considering it takes a civic to make a Temple of Prosperity, it being so subpar is pretty disappointing. In my opinion, the +50% spiritualist ethic attraction provided by the civic should simply extend to branch office planets without the need of a building, removing the terrible opportunity cost and making this portion of the civic worthwhile.
Considering it takes a civic to make a Temple of Prosperity, it being so subpar is pretty disappointing. In my opinion, the +50% spiritualist ethic attraction provided by the civic should simply extend to branch office planets without the need of a building, removing the terrible opportunity cost and making this portion of the civic worthwhile.
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