Scale Building Cost with National Base Tax

[Lee Saxon]

The cost of buildings is ridiculous right now. (1) Particularly for small/poor nations, it can cost 2-5 years of an ENTIRE NATION'S gold income to build one little building and (2) the bonuses are so stingy it takes 50+ years to break even on that cost, even for % bonuses and wealthy nations.

We can't be sure just from glimpses of YouTube playthroughs, but it looks like Common Sense is making at least the first of those problems even worse.

Now, I recognize that you can't make buildings cheaper because for wealthier nations and the late game they would be way too cheap.

I think the solution is scaling building cost. Link it to the nation's total base tax. Make it so everyone can afford buildings. Though you might need to also scale the buildings' effects, so that this doesn't give poorer nations too big of a buff.

And isn't scaled buildings also more realistic? Tell Paris and Malawi to build the best temples they can and you'll get two very different levels of grandeur.

 

[Heinrikr]

No, it would certainly not be more realistic, because the buildings are meant to be roughly the same. If paris and malawi builds a temple, it means that they build about roughyl equally good temples, which would reasonably cost the same for both. Buildings are, in other words, standardised, and as such it costs the same to build them even if you are malawi or france.

 

[Lee Saxon]

What? No way. A handful of the richest individuals in Paris or New York could finance a greater landmark than the entire GDP of Malawi or Haiti.

 

[Heinrikr]

What? No way. A handful of the richest individuals in Paris or New York could finance a greater landmark than the entire GDP of Malawi or Haiti.

yes, they could, but as I said, building are standardised. When you build a temple, you are not building "a temple scaled to your wealth" you are building a temple of a certain quality wholly independent of your wealth.

 

[AmbroStoics]

What? No way. A handful of the richest individuals in Paris or New York could finance a greater landmark than the entire GDP of Malawi or Haiti.

By that reasoning, said building should also be better, and in some way offer more, thus making it a different building with better effects than the Haitian one, or whatever.

 

[Lee Saxon]

By that reasoning, said building should also be better, and in some way offer more, thus making it a different building with better effects than the Haitian one, or whatever.

Right, but many of them do, as many of the bonuses are %-based. Those that aren't such as the Temple could be changed.