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| − | + | Like every other Sim Settlements plot type, structures built at an advanced industrial plot will have the ability to upgrade to level 2 and level 3 versions. However, unlike other plot types, advanced industrial plots have a branching upgrade model (customization options at each upgrade level) | |
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| + | So, rather than simply building a structure that generates more of the same resource type(s) and looks different at higher levels, advanced industrial structures have different “options” when they upgrade. These “options” lead to very different buildings with very different purposes and effects on your settlement. | ||
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| + | In addition, advanced industrial structures will often interact with and influence each other’s available upgrade paths. For example, an upgrade options for one structure may not show up as available until another structure has reached a certain level. This is called the “tech tree”. | ||
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| + | Like every Sim Settlement plot type, advanced industrial plot structures will use more of your settlements resources as they upgrade (food, water, defense, etc.). However, advanced industrial plot structures will use much more settlement resources than other plot types. | ||
= How to Upgrade to Higher Level = | = How to Upgrade to Higher Level = | ||
Revision as of 21:36, 6 August 2017
The advanced industrial plot type allows your settlers to build structures that generate specific resources for your settlement. Some of these are existing resources like wood or water, while others are completely new and unique to Sim Settlements.
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How it Functions
Like regular industrial plot structures, each advanced industrial plot will act as a job for a single settler and will generate “resources” for your settlement. However, advanced industrial plot structures are designed to have a much larger impact and influence on the direction of your settlement builds.
They can provide new benefits, unique and rare resources, and access to new technology but they also come with consequences and additional “costs”. They can both positively or negatively impact a variety of traditional settlement aspects including (but not limited to) happiness, defense, food, water, power. In addition advanced industrial plot structures can (and will increasingly) impact Sim Settlements dynamic needs mechanic.
Advanced Industrial vs. Regular Industrial
The overall idea of advanced industrial is to add more functionality, style of play options, and uniqueness to your Sim Settlements. However, advanced industrial is not a replacement for regular industrial - they are intended to work alongside each other.
The major difference between advanced industrial and regular industrial lies in “when” you should be building each.
The regular industrial plot structures are designed to be used at any time throughout your playthrough. They are especially useful early on to generate more scrap/basic resources so that you can continue to build up your settlement. The idea behind advanced industrial is that over time as your settlement becomes more of a thriving town/city you'll start knocking down some of those old regular industrial plots and replacing them with advanced industrial plots to gain access to the higher end technologies.
Another big incentive to use the regular industrial plots early on and then switch to advanced industrial later is that from a resource production point of view, the regular industrial plot will actually create you more overall “resources” (quantity) then the advanced industrial plots will create you in terms of specific resource items (quality). So early on when you just need “stuff” you're going to get more out of regular industrial plots and then later on, when you can afford to start focusing your settlement on specific trades (and your settlement can support the increased resource use), you can do things like swap them out for things like the advanced industrial plot type’s lumberyard to specifically generate lots of wood.
Plot Size(s) / Foundation Options
The advanced industrial plot come in the standard 2x2 plot size. Like the regular industrial plot type, advanced industrial’s available foundations are none and concrete.
Multiple Upgrade Levels
Like every other Sim Settlements plot type, structures built at an advanced industrial plot will have the ability to upgrade to level 2 and level 3 versions. However, unlike other plot types, advanced industrial plots have a branching upgrade model (customization options at each upgrade level)
So, rather than simply building a structure that generates more of the same resource type(s) and looks different at higher levels, advanced industrial structures have different “options” when they upgrade. These “options” lead to very different buildings with very different purposes and effects on your settlement.
In addition, advanced industrial structures will often interact with and influence each other’s available upgrade paths. For example, an upgrade options for one structure may not show up as available until another structure has reached a certain level. This is called the “tech tree”.
Like every Sim Settlement plot type, advanced industrial plot structures will use more of your settlements resources as they upgrade (food, water, defense, etc.). However, advanced industrial plot structures will use much more settlement resources than other plot types.
How to Upgrade to Higher Level
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