***1.2 eco can't get to 33% discount on mats please fix***

[copper dust]

dude i own market in Edinburgh, throw down 100 masonries, and u still can't manage to get the 33% discount for buildings. like some yes, the ones that dont require as much, but others e.g. sargeantry, u can't even with 20 masons like tf

please fix, it wasn't like this in 1.1

same with lumber, mason as mentioned, glass, and few others.
and yes all buildings are subsidized

[copper dust]

update: have eco set to most profit first (not infra first), and the masonries subsidized - still - buildings aren't filling up

[analog hare]

Yea I think this is a bug or there is an error. I have a +100 lumber balance and still no -33%

[weary mauve]

maybe they removed it?

it was a dogshit mechanic tbh

[balmy lodge]

There shouldn’t be a minimum cost cap, there should be -99% cost if things are actually that cheap

[weary mauve]

ur still paying for labour and land tho

[balmy lodge]

That why we need wage

And most buildings should be owned by estates

[weary mauve]

no please dont they ve tried to model all that in victoria 3 and ended up with a laggy impossible mess of a game due to the added cpu time strain that they had to strap international - fookin - migration in a game about late 19th-early 20th centuries

i would rather have them spend that extra cpu time on making ai less stupid especially at fighting wars

than some pointless inconsequential 'wages' mechanic just for the sake of 'realism' in a game where ai cant expand or control their armies

[balmy lodge]

Then have the building cost and upkeep increase the less unemployed pop there are in a location, and vice versa

I think this can represent that while not adding too much calculation

More Pop wealth per capita should also increase building cost and upkeep

And vice versa

[fervent marlin]

Just make it scale with location taxbase

No need to complicate it

Still achieves the same result of giving maintenance scaling

[weary mauve]

too many calculations for no reason

game cant even spare cputime for ais not to be dumb with their armies

id rather they spend the cpu time budget on that

[fervent marlin]

Isnt dynamic pathfinding one of the most cpu intensive things ever

[weary mauve]

its also more important than some useless mechanic about wages literally nobod ycares about the precision at which the cost of a building is calculated

people care about the main stuff. they shoudl spend the budget on the main stuff first

[fervent marlin]

I mean i agree

[weary mauve]

i mean vicky 3 did just that

tonnes and tonnes of absolutely useless precision on garbage

meanwhile no automation for ur country

ai cant do shit, cant even defend own colonies, cant defend capital naval invasions

the game has no external migration (not really) etc