Silk is a luxury in the game that gives +2 production on makers quarters per Silk

This might not sound problematic to someone that has not played a lot, but in multiplayer games, production dominates everything. 

And makers quarters are what is used to gain production. This leads to the situation that in multiplayer Silk dominates everything, since players need to either secure trades for Silk early or kill the player with silk before the production snowballs out of control.

And dear does it snowball, here is a production statistic of a game with a silk start on normal speed. 356 districts were built by the player that had silk, over 250 were makers quarters. This leads to a situation where a player has enough production that he can one turn a mars colony or any amount of army. There is no counter to this, except killing who ever spawn at the silk early. How would silk be balanced best?
 

I agree, replacing it's buff compleatly might be the way to go.

Current bonus just causes a too big Problem

Kudos @komodowaran, for pointing this out!  It's an element contributing to imbalance that I doubt I would ever have noticed.  I think many regular players see how trade can snowball your game.  But I've rarely seen a granular look at which luxuries are the most over-powered.  Nicely done!

This is tangential, but I think it suggests a related, but separate, discussion about whether all OP luxuries should be nerfed.  And, as I write this, I can think of arguments NOT to go too far that way. In the real world, there are certain luxuries or resources that are of much greater strategic or economic value than others.  To name a few:  Oil, gold, and diamonds.  And...nations do fight and maneuver to control them.  That sounds like an interesting element to retain.

Yes, the current Soft Power dynamic of trade providing strong boosts, yet crippling to the player when it’s used as a weapon through tariff enforcement in Crisis events and or players refusing to trade, thus forcing the player to enforce a response or make their empire become independent of trade, is something I do wish this game doesn’t lose.

Changlini wrote:

Yes, the current Soft Power dynamic of trade providing strong boosts, yet crippling to the player when it’s used as a weapon through tariff enforcement in Crisis events and or players refusing to trade, thus forcing the player to enforce a response or make their empire become independent of trade, is something I do wish this game doesn’t lose.

I agree completely and believe for a strategy game it's fun, challenging and realistic to have such powerful and strategically-crucial-to-control resources. These are the elements that make trading, diplomacy and war worthwhile endeavours to deal with.

You might try the mod that spreads resources out so that they don't clump together. Spread Luxuries

Have never had an issue with silk at humankind difficulty against the AI but have never played multiplayer.

If I am interpreting the chart correctly there is a 60K production jump in roughly 40 turns and the 4th era is completed in approximately 5 turns at normal speed?

Just curious, does controlling silk always result in snowballing like this in multiplayer?

Thinking about getting into multiplayer but if the only viable strategy to win an unmodded game is max production and control silk, I would rather stick with playing the AI till the mechanic is adjusted or maybe try the spread luxuries mod as suggested above.

Yes, the chart is quite vague in the nuances that goes into production income, and is--when combined with this thread's thesis--attempting to convince us all that Komodowaran only got to those production numbers because of silk alone.