Community Strategy
This is a strategy page made by players of the game. No information on this page is guaranteed to give the player success.
What is Factory Spamming?[]
Factory spamming is a strategy within Rise of Nations that revolves around spamming as many Civilian Factories as you can around your nation to use their 250,000$ of income. Due to the nature of spamming factories, it requires a high amount of resources to perform sustainably.
The strategy synergizes very well with Communism due to it's boost to resource and factory outputs, allowing you to support more factories.
Factory Spamming[]
Factory spamming is most powerful on resource-rich nations, due to the reduced need for trading for resources.
It is Highly Recommended to turn on the policy "The Public Service Act" to get more resource output out of your factories and your mines. Research Quantum Computing, and rush Socialism and Communism.
Once your nation is Communist, turn on the policy "Forced Labor for Dissidents" to gain even more resource output out of factories and mines. Research Factory / Resource output techs to be able to support even more factories. You can also turn on the policy "Improve Infrastructure" to reduce factory cost as well as to make it faster to build them.
To start factory spamming, trade enough resources to support 2 Electronics Factories, 1 Fertilizer Factory, 1 Steel Factory and 2 Motor Factories. Invade weak and nearby nations and take their treasuries to help build your factories.
After your electronics factories are built, begin building 4 Civilian Factories. While the factories are being built, you can sell your electronics to gain some bonus income. Continue expanding your nation to gain more money in your treasury, as well as more cities.
Once the 4 Civ Factories are built, sell the consumer goods to nations with a deficit of consumer goods to gain even more income. At this point, you have a massive amount of income, allowing you to rapidly develop cities and expand.
Once you have enough resource income, continue building factories. Remember to sell Consumer Goods to Ai gain even more bonus income.
Bottlenecks[]
Electronics factories produce a high amount of Electronics while using common materials, allowing you to reliably spam them around your nation.
Fertilizer and Motor Factories will be your main bottleneck for spamming Civilian factories, due to them using rare materials that may not be in high amount within a game.
The high amount of resource usage may cause massive resource shortages. Remember to build Mines of Phosphates, Copper, Gold, Titanium and Tungsten.
The high amount of resources you will gain from this strategy will also help with spamming armies / building buildings that use resources such as the Sonar Station and the Silo.
Factory Spamming for Small Nations[]
It is also possible to factory spam in smaller, less resource rich nations, albeit with much more traded resources and upfront cost. The smaller amount of cities may limit your growth, so remember to invade nearby nations, reducing losses by using the numerous offensive strategies created by the community.