Why are Factories not damaged at all by combat/forceful change of state owner?

[KubiG37]

Per title - why is only infrastructure being damaged by combat taking place in a state? (Land combat, there are no strat bombers for now!)

It is quite ridiculous thinking of Soviet troops taking over German Konigsberg, coming to a factory producing Panzers:
"Don't mind us! We're just passing through, but maybe if you could manufacture soviet PPSH instead of panzers, it would be nice!"

There should be at least minor damage to everything in a state whenever ownership changes by direct combat, or perhaps even just by nearby combat in the same state. Something you'd need to devote at least minimal CIV time to get to function again.

This would also further help prevent the snowballing effect of 1 country slowly consuming other country's territory and acquiring its own factories for itself for immediate use.

 

[DaleDVM]

This is very true. It should take considerable effort to retool captured factories. However, I do not think that it should completely tie up the production que of currently owned civilian factories. After all a factory in Hamburg is not going to be doing a lot of production helping to repair a factory in Krakow.

I think this would be best represented by having a larger delay to the availability of newly captured factories. During that delay those very same captured factories and the labor in that conquered country are using their own production capabilities to retool and repair the industry for usage by the conquering country.

This is already represented in game "somewhat" by the fact that not all factories in conquered territories are available to a conqueror immediately. Then the percentage climbs as compliance grows. It could be considered that a fair percentage of the conquered "unavailable" factories are doing the repair and retooling of the factories that do become available. Also remember that new MIC factories start out at quite low levels of efficiency and take a while to ramp up military production.

 

[TalyonUngol]

Because it's already implemented behind the scenes with compliance.

 

[freejones912]

Per title - why is only infrastructure being damaged by combat taking place in a state? (Land combat, there are no strat bombers for now!)

It is quite ridiculous thinking of Soviet troops taking over German Konigsberg, coming to a factory producing Panzers:
"Don't mind us! We're just passing through, but maybe if you could manufacture soviet PPSH instead of panzers, it would be nice!"

There should be at least minor damage to everything in a state whenever ownership changes by direct combat, or perhaps even just by nearby combat in the same state. Something you'd need to devote at least minimal CIV time to get to function again.

This would also further help prevent the snowballing effect of 1 country slowly consuming other country's territory and acquiring its own factories for itself for immediate use.

Probably because among other reasons, its needlessly complicated and serves no real purpose. It wasnt unheard of for captured factories to simply keep making what they had been, because as you said, its difficult to retool a factory to make something when it can just keep making tanks or guns. It would have minimal effect on the overall conflict. If youre at war, stuff its gonna get broken, and if you arent, well theres no immediate need to represent individual factories changing to new equipment.

 

[xtfoster]

Not only is it simulated in the new Compliance system, it is also simulated in the legacy (as in it has existed since release) Production Efficiency system.
And, as some have already pointed out, in many cases the highly specialized factories just continued (at least in the beginning) producing what they were producing under their former owners.

The LT vz. 38 (aka Panzer 38(t)) and its numerous variants is the most obvious example.

In France most "weapon" production was (officially) suspended, but French factories continued to produce trucks, airplane engines (while Germany would have preferred to produce their own designs instead of the Gnome and Rhone engines it would have taken too long to retool).

The same can be said for naval equipment (although for the most part nothing larger than a large Torpedo Boat/Small Destroyer was actually finished in the occupied zones. (But that is mostly true for the Reichsmarine as a whole, so not sure if it means anything.))

I haven't really looked, but I'm sure other occupied areas (Poland, BeNeLux, Denmark, Norway, etc.) were similar.