Posted by: Sebastian
« on: June 29, 2012, 02:13:52 PM »Quote from: TheDeadlyShoe link=topic=5005. msg51345#msg51345 date=1340989927
Financial centers have a fixed cost, but their wealth output scales with your +wealth bonuses - technology, governor, and racial. They usually arn't the solution to a short term financial crunch - you might be better off building nothing at all!
To get reliable information on this - go look at the 'Population Per Capita Income' in the wealth/trade screen. This is how much 1 financial center will earn in 1 year when built at this colony. Financial centers cost 240 wealth to build, so just divide 240 by income and you'll have the time to pay back. In my current game, one civ has 23/capita and another has 41. So the first civ would take 10. 4 years to pay back on a financial center and the second 5. 8.
Nice, I hadn't even thought to think of it that way.