Factory

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Factories and ports connected by Railroads with a Train on the tracks

Factories are a Building that allows players to earn Gold by connecting with other non-military buildings.

Mechanics

Factories spawn trains and railroads automatically when two or more connectable buildings have been placed within range on land. The connectable buildings are: Factory, Port, and City, though only Port and City train stations pay out gold. The railroads can currently only travel directly in cardinal directions.

The distance within which a factory and another building can connect in is between 15 and 100 units, with each individual railroad connection having a maximum distance of 120 units.

Once a train reaches a station that pays out gold, both the station owner and the train owner receive the gold reward (unless a single player owns both, then they will get the reward just once). The amount of gold a train gives upon visiting a station depends on the relationship between train owner and the owner of the territory in which the train station's building is built at:

Gold reward based on relationship

Owner	Gold Reward
Allies	50,000
Neutral / Teammates	25,000
Self	10,000
Enemies / Embargoed	0

The probability of a train spawning during every tick is dictated by how many factories the player owns, given by the formula

$spawnChance=\frac{1}{(numFactories+10)*20}$

This means that the more factories a player owns, the less likely it is each individual one will will spawn a train. The overall chance of a train spawning in your network, however, increases. The expected amount of trains is given by the formula

$expectedOverallSpawnChance=\frac{numFactories}{(numFactories+10)*20}$

Trivia

The game's code keeps track of how many wagons each train is carrying, with a function for loading cargo, and managing where the locomotive is, but as of writing, there is no known gameplay usage of this data.

See also

• Train
• Railroad
• Update 24.0
• Update 25.0