I was just thinking that I go out of my way to NOT use the term "factory" on my description pages.  For instance, the primary (and most significant) method of production on Anarchy involves factories.  Factories are the only method of production on Go-Geared, and you will not find the word factory in the description.  I did this because I think the term can be confusing.. 

In the case where a bonus is placed on a territory that is not a member of the continent, the term factory becomes somewhat of a misnomer depending on the back-story and the way the board is conceptualized. Consider a map of warring widget companies, where the factories (buildings on the board) produce widgets in hoppers.  Imagine trying to explain the mechanics of such a board using the WG definition of the word factory.

As I said before, I use the term "in-hand" bonus to describe the conventional bonus structure, but I'll end up spending a bit of time figuring out how to communicate the mechanics of a factory based system depending on the board.  Perhaps that's just the way it has to be.

Of course it's a different story when I'm communicating with designers.

Hugh wrote:

Who came up with ToS?

been around since late '09 early '10 (basically since the beginning). not sure who coined the shortened version first. can't do an advanced search with the new google engine.

Yertle wrote:

Wow.  I'm impressed that defining things actually makes things more complicated... 

This is my favorite post that has ever been posted!

P.S.  I came up with ToS during the forums feud with Doom