Help with building question plz

**Ludens** · 01-31-2009, 12:52

Originally Posted by HunGeneral

Is the bonus this Port gives really woth the price?

No, it gives the same benefit as a normal port of equal level. Hence it's only worthwhile in your biggest trading ports, and even then it takes something like a century to pay itself back.

**Mediolanicus** · 01-31-2009, 13:02

It is a good way to soak up unnecessary mnai. And that's pretty much it's only gameplay use...

**Ardri** · 01-31-2009, 19:20

If you like the role play aspect of the game you can basically treat it as a splurge of power and wealth. Basically, it is like saying, "We have so much wealth and technology, we can build grand harbours where they naturally should not be." Like Mediolanicus said, it is a very good way to use up some excess mnai.

**A Very Super Market** · 01-31-2009, 19:25

It is actually is pretty useless, since the only reason and only way you could build it, is if you're economy is super-profitable, which defeats the point of increasing your naval trade. So yeah, pretty pointless.

**gamegeek2** · 01-31-2009, 19:37

Heh, well sometimes we like to spend our 200000 mnai on stuff other than military.

**Ardri** · 01-31-2009, 19:42

Isn't it also historically accurate for governments to spend large sums of money on projects that aren't really worth their value, but they had the money and felt obligated to spend it?

**Mediolanicus** · 01-31-2009, 20:38

Originally Posted by Ardri

Isn't it also historically accurate for governments to spend large sums of money on projects that aren't really worth their value, but they had the money and felt obligated to spend it?

True, governments like spending large sums of money on projects that are totally unnecessary and aren't really worth their value, but they just feel obligated to do so because it might give them some prestige or a higher standig among nations or just to shows they can handle such a large project - even if it is an unprofitable project...

**Ludens** · 01-31-2009, 21:40

Originally Posted by Ardri

Isn't it also historically accurate for governments to spend large sums of money on projects that aren't really worth their value, but they had the money and felt obligated to spend it?

Well, Augustus' enlargement of the harbour of Ostia for example. And it wasn't quite useless. It allowed him to concentrate more resources at the centre of the empire. I guess the Hellenic factions may have carried out similar projects.