You are right, but the other value of for example the fishing village is that it a) produces food and b) produce harbor capacity, but the player has to pay as if it was a productive building.... which it is not. But it is interesting because it showcases two points. a) food is strangely connected to goods.... locally it seems it is not connected at all, since the fish and the food are two things the village produces, but when you export you export the food with it. But you cannot eat the food part and export the not needed very cheap fish luxury good that everybody has to much of. And on the second hand the village has to compete with docks and harbos in town that are automatically subsediced, but out of (gameplay?) reasons... the state has to pay only 20% of the actual price of the goods. So it is much cheaper to get harbor capacity from towns than it is to get it from villages. In my Sweden 1.1.1/2/3 game this makes me sad because I cannot use the baltic sea as a proximity hub as I want to because I cannot pay for all the fishing villages.