I don't think so. As far as I can see and know, the only difference in production is given by the level of Mountain Halls.
Not all of us are pensionado's or unemployed. There are actually people who enjoy this game in their spare time. The rest of the day and/or night is reserved for real live goals.
I am not retired just unemployed (same thing but without an income
) and can't make more than 2 Bracelets/ 24h because in last chapters, due to astronomical amounts of sentient requirements, I can't waste any MM on normal production. I use about 7 MM/ day for that and I am producing MMs around the clock. Here in Beta, for 1 Bracelet I use 5 T1 x 3h x 3rounds. With the over night production I still need 3 rounds cuz 9h prod is not even equal with 2 x 3h. With the delays in collecting (I am not glued to the PC) this is max I can get - 2 Bracelets/ 24h
How many? Don't forget that players over ch.14 must have also sentient manufactories. If they want to finish a chapter in less than 6 months, they must have 2 of each sentient. That means 6 extra manufactories. To build them, chit*loads of pop and culture is needed. Also, we have to upgrade all kind of other buildings. The new type of FS was designed to use the normal manufactories and have less of tiny ones. As an end player I just can't afford to build extra T1 and upgrade them (to make a difference). I have 5 T1 but are other players who have only 4 (due to lack of space), so, the Bracelet, for them, will take even longer than 3x 3h (10h with the collection delay), most probably about 3.5 rounds or in worse scenario - 4 or 5 collection.
Since you consider them to be so difficult, may I ask how long you need for one? Because I have only claimed that it is easy to do one every two days (=green path, 18 members), realistic to do one per day (=all paths, 25 members) and not impossible to do more.
Ofcourse they are more normal because they use normal manufactories,. That is not the same as easy.
This week I needed 17.8K for one bracelet. I have 5 manufactories level 19 (maxed out) and they produce 2136 each every 3 hours with a spell on all of them. Since yesterday I need 22K for one bracelet (yes, that was a mistake) and I run out of spells. So I would say that I am able to make 3 per day, but I am the exception because I work from a homeoffice and therefor I can collect whenever I want.
It's actually Arcane residue
You must know by now that the Dev's don't think, they just act regardless of consequences.
What previous post alluded to is rising efficiency per total space required. So not just per space that manufactory itself occupies (this one doesn't change), but also the space for culture/pop needed to support it. So if the same manufactory requires e.g. 100 tiles to support it in C16, it will need less than that in C17 because culture/pop is more efficient per tile there. Hence, the same goods output requires smaller total footprint -> higher per tile efficiency.
