[Ironhawk]

I dont think the answer is allowing people to select and/or modify forts during Pretender design. You could select forts in Dom2 and the only anyone ever picked was the cheapest/fastest one possible. Watchtowers, for the win!

IMO, the easiest fix would be to reverse the current costs for forts. Since the quality of the fort is basically immaterial, make the 5-turn forts cost 800 (to compensate for thier long times) and the 3-turn forts cost 1200. In this way, you don't force the player to always choose thier "worst" fort - but rather give them the option to build a cheap, slow, good fort, or a fast, expensive, bad one.