Re: Productive Scale needs some Enhancements
Cost reduction would be nice, no question.
But would that *ever* be enough to get you to take Productivity instead of order? I kinda doubt it, with rare exceptions - LA or EA Ermor, Abysia with some strats, it'd make Productivity worth considering as Pangaea, although still not worth it.
The key, I think, rather than nerfing Order, is to give positive scales a synergistic benefit.
So the population increase from Growth is multiplicative with the money bonus from Order. There are a set of really cool events that require Order - making Order/Fortune worth considering. If Productivity made forts faster to build, that would be very multiplicative with order and with order+growth, as you could then usefully spend all that cash you were raking in. If they're just cheaper or more expensive, you'd tend to take Order/Sloth since you have the money to afford the forts anyway.
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