Production Questions

[blue_yonder]

Ok – that all sounds very plausible. I wonder if we’ll get some kind of damage report after each raid, telling us how much we’ve been set back in each category. If entropy avatar is correct in thinking a direct hit on a synthetic plant results in a direct loss of those products, then the next question is whether these (and the other non-standard buildings: rocket sites and nuclear facilities) are identifiable on-map and can be specifically targeted, or whether they are 'disguised' as just another factory with two chimneys..

 

[Daelyn75]

The worse feature for me though was the automatic building of seemly unlimited factories at the very start of the game. I mean it's 1936, the height of the great depression. Factories were shut and unemployment was at record highs. Where would nation states get the wherewithal to go on such a massive building programme? I know about FDR's New Deal and Deficit spending and all that not to mention Germany's Autobahn programme etc. But the effects were gradual not instantaneous.
I know there's no money in the game but there should be some mechanism to limit the sort of building we were seeing in the World War video.

This other than the oil thing only for production bothered me. For the countries suffering a depression, it just feels really unrealistic to me. I can see Germany, Japan and the Soviets doing it, but other then them, not so much. The rest of the world I can see them doing it in a limited way, but not full tilt like we are watching a horse race.