What if you were able to build them in every territory but just the ones in the territory with the main plaza would give the resource?

Hmm, I do like it, and I'd even say that it should be a requirement for every EQ producing a resource.

Buut, I do wonder if it would open them up for an 'exploit' of detaching territory, making a city and pillage-attaching/absorbing it, making it just a question of paying a lot of influence.

I still think that maybe they should be buildable only on Strategic Deposit, replacing it, and probably only once per resource type (but that one would likely be exploitable as well).

Quite frankly, at this point? Hard Caps for EQs. Only problem is that it would make the cultures less unique if you could run out of those, but maybe they'd become a decision rather than something you spam at the dawn of new era.

Ah, you both make excellent points.  One solution could be that instead of "Must be built next to the main plaza", it instead (or additionally?) gained "When next to Main Plaza: Creates a new Deposit of Weapons which is automatically exploited".  That means it would only work when it's actively next to a main plaza, avoiding the exploit of detaching-and-remerging.

It could also open up new EQ power levels where we could still build an EQ in each territory, but an EQ next to the main plaza could give a stronger benefit.  Strange coincidence: There are six eras with six EQs, and a main plaza can have up to six tiles adjacent to it. :)

An issue I see is it'll favour having many cities and it's already the winnig scheme of the game.
I'd rather get a stability malus per number of cities » it would make building many EQ finally impact stability and taking new cities would also impact it, making it harder to use it to conquer the whole world.

And on a different level: having arms factories right in the middle of a city seems weird.

6 tiles around a main plaza, when not placed against a cliff or mountain. One of the tile could also benefit from a train station.

That's why I'd love for Stability to become an issue to manage for the player first to make final judgement, but I don't really think that's the way to deal with Arms Factories. IMO, they need to have a hard cap because of CS bonus, it doesn't matter that every next one will cause massive stability issues, if you need something like 5-6, even less if LT remains unchanged, to make anything your opponent can pull out on you, aside of massive tech advantage, irrelevant.

Hey now, the newly-released Sumerian Eduba has a property of "+6 Science per adjacent Main Plaza" and "+6 Science per adjacent Administrative Center", which is a whole lot like what we discussed above.  Maybe this is something we can revisit?

So maybe Soviet Arms Factories could produce something along the lines of "+1 Weapons Deposit per adjacent Main Plaza" and something still respectable like "+20 Industry and +30 Money per adjacent Administrative Center".  Open up a new style of EQs that are great in the city's central territory, just-good in additional territories.

I like that idea, still not sure it would limit Weapons enough to make them manageable on receiving side, but I'd like to see how it works, along with removal of CS boost from their LT.

A1y0sh4 wrote:

What if you were able to build them in every territory but just the ones in the territory with the main plaza would give the resource?

This could one interesting way to limit really powerful EQs that isn't too complicated.

Wald