Sawmills

[Seravy]

I'd suggest doing it in a different thread (there's almost certainly some old ones discussing the change to famous in depth) and seeing if anything new can be done for Heroes.

MY reply is there : http://www.realmsbeyond.net/forums/showt...#pid681872

[MrBiscuits]

-Sawmill now costs 68 and generates 6 production.

Am I reading this right? Sawmill is around a third of the cost now and still 75% as effective?

Edit: I just realised it was only 100 before and therefore 200 gold....doh.

Still it seems cheap compared to the smithy

[Seravy]

The smithy is intentionally expensive because you get it for free. You only need to build one if it gets destroyed in battle.

[Bahgtru]

Aggressive races without spearmen are a bit shafted by this at start, some swordsmen of the decent races can sometimes stop common summons. I mean the price of the smithy. Getting for free something expensive also opens up the possibility to sell it for quite some money... I find this a bit questionable all in all. I understand that I am a bit late with raising this.

[Seravy]

Selling the smithy significantly slows down the development of your new town and only gets you 40 gold. Not worth it. And I don't see how aggressive races could be hurt by this if they get a smithy everywhere for free - as long as they don't let the enemy into their city tiles in combat, the smithy will never break.