Technological/Manufacturing Capitals and Bonus Tiles

Sorry if someone else has posted this, but...

Hello, you know how the Capitals for Technological and Manufacturing increase production/research on/from the planet by a percentage? Does the effectiveness of that percentage increase if you put it on a corresponding bonus tile? Such as a Manufacturing capital on a precursor factory zone or whatever the bonus tile is called.

Or is the bonus nil and void?

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You won't see any gain by placing them on bonus tiles.

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Reply #2 Top

Ah, thank you for the quick and helpful reply Moosetek13! ^-^

Reply #3 Top

The exception is the political capitol. Due to how the bonuses it gives are calculated, it can use the bonus from either a morale or influence bonus tile.

The difference is in how the different planetary outputs are calculated. Manufacturing and research are produced as concrete point values, and the capitol structures increase that output by a percentage. Since the two structures perform slightly different functions, the game recognizes one as getting the bonus and the other as not getting it. A structure that gives a +% to food production has the same issue, and the bonus will not apply to that building for the same reason.

Influence and morale are different, as no structures produce concrete values of either influence or morale. ALL structures for those two categories increase the planet's stats by a % value, so all structures that increase those stats by a % can use the bonus.

Note the above does NOT apply to things like trade goods or galactic achievements. Only structures with effects limited to the planet they are built on can receive tile bonuses. Anything that affects your empire as a whole cannot use a bonus tile.

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Quoting WIllythemailboy, reply 3

Note the above does NOT apply to things like trade goods or galactic achievements. Only structures with effects limited to the planet they are built on can receive tile bonuses. Anything that affects your empire as a whole cannot use a bonus tile.

Hehe, that being allowed would have so exploitable. Nano-recorders, anyone?

Reply #5 Top

Nah, I'd go with the Artificial Slave Center on a 700% tile for an instant 200% manufacturing bonus empire wide.