Is Buying Industries Possible?

[KatherineOfSky]

Title -- is this something that needs to be unlocked? I have a desire to upgrade production in certain places, and buying the industry would seem to be the logical way to do it...

[Caprontos]

Don't think so.. If you bring it plenty of what it needs maybe it'll grow.. I assume the production chains do level, but idk how it works exactly.

If you can get a colony of the type of product you want, you can get it for free and ship it.. But its a bit tircky to get colonies I think..

[Narnach]

Buying/controlling industry was a core part of Railroad Tycoon and also in the Patrician series, so I'm curious to know if this is in scope or not. If not, it seems industry thrives when you supply them with the resources they need, and you sell what they produce...

Example: one of my cities has a level 17 Textile Mill that turns 2 Cotton into 1 Fabric, and can produce up to 9.78 Fabric per day. That means it needs 19.56 Cotton per day. Assuming you can supply this nearly 20 Cotton per day, and then sell the nearly 10 Fabric per day... I suspect it will slowly level up until it fails to obtain enough input materials, or if the output won't get sold enough. The devs mentioned something along these lines in another thread, but did not give detailed specifics. Until they do... study those Textile Mills! :-D