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I havn't yet tried it out, but the HRE might be extermly powerful latter on as it can make gold profits by spreading corporations inside it's territories. Corporation costs are maintenance costs so are reduced by -75% by the Rathaus. On the other side you get +5 raw gold per city with the corporation. So with all gold modifiers in that city you get a +15 gold back with 2 corporations spread that gives a +30 gold. So to have a deficit you will need corporation costs that exceed 120 gold. Just imagine how much food and hammers you can get for 120 gold?
I just did a quick test in the world builder. I ended up having a +52 base hammers and +12 food per city and was still making a bit of profit using corporations. Adding in hammer modifiers this gives +104 hammers and I'm not even counting Police State modifiers and this is for a pop 1 tundra city.
This is just crazy!
The only problem is that you will most likely not have resources in such quantities as I gave in the worldbuilder (48 iron, 24 fish). So this would extremely favor war mongering as conquering will not only add new cities but will also improve the old ones through additional resources.
And you are the only one to get the bonus because other civs can't afford it. So you will either largely outproduce or outtech any neighbor.
This would even make production depend quadratically on the territory instead of linear as it was the case without corporations.
(You will need Solver's patch installed for this to work I suppose.)
I just did a quick test in the world builder. I ended up having a +52 base hammers and +12 food per city and was still making a bit of profit using corporations. Adding in hammer modifiers this gives +104 hammers and I'm not even counting Police State modifiers and this is for a pop 1 tundra city.
This is just crazy!
The only problem is that you will most likely not have resources in such quantities as I gave in the worldbuilder (48 iron, 24 fish). So this would extremely favor war mongering as conquering will not only add new cities but will also improve the old ones through additional resources.
And you are the only one to get the bonus because other civs can't afford it. So you will either largely outproduce or outtech any neighbor.
This would even make production depend quadratically on the territory instead of linear as it was the case without corporations.
(You will need Solver's patch installed for this to work I suppose.)