only ever applies to base value
morale stuff just adds a higher target morale

having 100% morale slighty increases production, same does having more population

Production increase for resources through buildings just adds up and not multiplies, i would assume

To me anything over Arms Industry 1 juice not worth the squeeze. You need arms industry to produce real units but that extra 10 pct takes like 10 days to recoup costs and many buildings such as Airbase 2 actually boost 10 pct; Navy 2 - 5 pct too and has function to use/build planes.

Arms Industries do pay for themselves eventually, but they also have a large up-front resources-cost and a large opportunity-cost.

It could be that the game is flawed

Or it could be that players' expectations are flawed (for a variety of reasons)

Or it could be that the game has features that are useful for both long-game and short-game strategies, and other styles.

The universe doesn't have a rule that players should just sit down and immediately understand all the nuances of games like CoN.

Dorado profits might rise or fall depending on how simple CoN's rules are, or how much CoN resembles other games, but declaring CoN fundamentally flawed seems a bit much

Maps only tend to end this quickly, because there tend to be not that many active players from the start

AIs easily pay themselves off, even more if a map lasts 1-2 month

Airport and Naval Base only give 5% more and are far more expensive

how much resources and time spent on getting 5 cities to arms #5. I generally start with bottom third of economies and by day 10 at latest in top 3 via conquest. if could build planes and ships without Arms ind I wouldn't build any.

And yes goal is to win as fast as possible. How is sitting building 5 levels of a building and waiting > 30 days fun?

Flashpoint should take 14 - 20 days
USA map 20 - 25 days (small map but a ton of "countries" in concentrated area.
Just won Rising Tides map solo w 4200 vps in 27 days (if get the right victory sites) but milage may vary greater with domes / victory sites.
World maps anywhere from 35 - 45 days. Tough games may go 60.
Not sure what happenned to Mideast or Oil and gas maps but those are 21 - 25 days typically.

So instead of waiting 10 days to wait for economy I go out and earn it / take it. How many more Researches; Builds; mobilizations are you not doing. in current USA map started 31st / 32nd economies with 5 cities; 6 days later Im on par with 7 city economies and only have arms 1 in 3 cities.