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For me it comes down to the math of FP produced per day per square. I didn't look at when certain GBs would pey themselves off. I wanted to increase my daily FP income any way I could. Hagia, CDM and Cape were all ways I could do that, so I built all 3.
I camped in HMA for a long time and made a rule for myself that I would build anything that generated FPs if it took up 12 squares PER FP or less. In the case of an SOK, it takes up 4 squares for 1 FP, so that's a really good one. Gondola dock market at 20 squares for 2 (2-3 really, but usually 2 for me) FP per day is 10 squares per FP. Hagia at 42 squares and 6 FP at lvl 10 is 7 squares per FP.
I chose to follow this method until my city was full of FP producing buildings and once it was, I would replace the most inefficient buildings with more efficient ones, like the gondola dock for 4 SOKs. I've gotten all the medal and diamond expansions available in LMA (where I'm at now) and I still have room for like 20 3x3 production buildings for repeatable quests. So I've never replaced any FP generating buildings. (Not to mention Hagia lvl 10 is covering all my happiness needs juuuust barely. I'm going to lose 120 with the winter spire unless I find happiness from somewhere else).
My income slowly grew from 40 to 80 to 120 and now it's at around 230 at collection time and with daily amount and quests thrown in I'm pushing 300. It doesn't matter when any of my GBs break even, because I have 300 FP/day NOW that I can invest in whatever I want, and that's an important part of the game. Sometimes it's good to do the hard math on whether something is worth it, but sometimes you have to do what you want. I'm building a Blue Galaxy next and that crap wont break even for a long time, but I want the rush of getting double collections on my royal ships or terrace farms...stuff that increases my daily FP amount!
I camped in HMA for a long time and made a rule for myself that I would build anything that generated FPs if it took up 12 squares PER FP or less. In the case of an SOK, it takes up 4 squares for 1 FP, so that's a really good one. Gondola dock market at 20 squares for 2 (2-3 really, but usually 2 for me) FP per day is 10 squares per FP. Hagia at 42 squares and 6 FP at lvl 10 is 7 squares per FP.
I chose to follow this method until my city was full of FP producing buildings and once it was, I would replace the most inefficient buildings with more efficient ones, like the gondola dock for 4 SOKs. I've gotten all the medal and diamond expansions available in LMA (where I'm at now) and I still have room for like 20 3x3 production buildings for repeatable quests. So I've never replaced any FP generating buildings. (Not to mention Hagia lvl 10 is covering all my happiness needs juuuust barely. I'm going to lose 120 with the winter spire unless I find happiness from somewhere else).
My income slowly grew from 40 to 80 to 120 and now it's at around 230 at collection time and with daily amount and quests thrown in I'm pushing 300. It doesn't matter when any of my GBs break even, because I have 300 FP/day NOW that I can invest in whatever I want, and that's an important part of the game. Sometimes it's good to do the hard math on whether something is worth it, but sometimes you have to do what you want. I'm building a Blue Galaxy next and that crap wont break even for a long time, but I want the rush of getting double collections on my royal ships or terrace farms...stuff that increases my daily FP amount!
My first city is a current age (and below) city and always has been. No reason you can't have a self enforced restrictions city.