Factories built "at a increased risk" of what?

[Chema_Cagi]

Hope that someone can help me. I've read and re-read the manual trying to find the answer to the mysterious sentence in the "build factory" requester: it says something like "you can build X factories without increased risk and cost".
The increased cost is clear, but what about the increased "risk"? I've never got a "failed to build factory" message or anything. Apart from the fire in factory events, what's this "increased risk" when building many factories?

Thanks in advance

 

[unmerged(2735)]

I've never had this happen to me, but I believe it means
increased risk from random events such as "fire".

 

[unmerged(548)]

I believe this could be something from the original boardgame that never made it to the release of the CG. Download the BG fule book from the net and read it if you wnat to know more

 

[unmerged(2878)]

My first post, yay!

I think that Ken was right personally. I remember when I first started building a couple refineries in Russia. I played most of the way through the game without building more refineries and never had a fire. I played as France a little later and made about 5 refineries and had a fire really early on.

Perhaps the game checks each refinery once a month for fire--therefore the more refineries you have, the greater the chance one will have a fire.

Or mabye more refineries = greater risk of a fire event occuring. If it occurs then the game will pick a random factory for it to occur in.

 

[unmerged(1995)]

Gee, certaibly no...

I currently have 120+ manufactories and had only *one* random event of factory destruction.
If this chance depended on the number of factories you own, I'd have seen it much more (or you won't ever be seeing it with less than 5 factories)

 

[unmerged(1798)]

Originally posted by yves
Gee, certaibly no...

I currently have 120+ manufactories and had only *one* random event of factory destruction.
If this chance depended on the number of factories you own, I'd have seen it much more (or you won't ever be seeing it with less than 5 factories)

Perhaps your random number generator needs replacement?

 

[unmerged(1995)]

No, this is not the first time I've had a fair number of manufactories.
I'd say the event is really random, and doesn't depend on the number of factories you own.

In the BG, too many factories meant more risks of revolts.