Running out of Rare Materials

Zozo001 wrote:

goth y boi wrote:

In my most recent game (ww3 as Kenya), I’m having a Rare Materials shortage at day 6, even though I have conquered 2 other players’ RM cities. What can I do to quickly increase production, ASAP?

The quickest way (still taking several days to yield extra material, alas) may be upgrading your RM city ArmI, if you have not done so yet.

Not quick, but a long term solution: look for available RM producing provinces and conquer those, then build LocInd. Make sure you maintain morale as high as possible by clearing nearby enemy areas (as well as finish wars fast).

First realize that freshly conquered cities produce very little.The quickest way (still taking several days to yield extra material, alas) may be upgrading your RM city ArmI, if you have not done so yet.Not quick, but a long term solution: look for available RM producing provinces and conquer those, then build LocInd. Make sure you maintain morale as high as possible by clearing nearby enemy areas (as well as finish wars fast).

If it's your Homeland City with 85% Morale, it will produce 1118 Rares per day.
An Arms Industry's 10% boost in that Homeland City will produce another 112 per day.

If it's a captured City (someone else's Homeland) with a 16% Morale it will match the Arms Industry by producing 112 Rares per day.
With a 34% morale that captured City will produce 156 per day.
With a 40% morale that captured City will produce 170 per day.

If I didn't do something stupid while getting those numbers, it looks to me like capturing a city has a bigger payoff than building/upgrading an Arms Industry.

In typical public games, quickly capturing a few abandoned homeland cities is often pretty easy.

Let's use Playbabe's spreadsheet look at a Rares City with a 5 population.If it's your Homeland City with 85% Morale, it will produce 1118 Rares per day.An Arms Industry's 10% boost in that Homeland City will produce another 112 per day.If it's a captured City (someone else's Homeland) with a 16% Morale it will match the Arms Industry by producing 112 Rares per day.With a 34% morale that captured City will produce 156 per day.With a 40% morale that captured City will produce 170 per day.If I didn't do something stupid while getting those numbers, it looks to me like capturing a city has a bigger payoff than building/upgrading an Arms Industry.In typical public games, quickly capturing a few abandoned homeland cities is often pretty easy.