Republic

[Zeppelin4]

The wording on this policy is confusing to me. The way it reads to me is it increases the cost of policies. Could someone clear this up for me?

 

[Ahriman]

If you're talking about what I think you're talking about:
Suppose that the Xth social policy has a base marginal cost of Y.
The actual marginal cost of the Xth policy is Y(1+0.15*(N-1)) where N is the number of cities you have.
That is, each new city you have makes policies 15% more expensive.
With the policy that reduces this, the actual marginal cost of the Xth policy is Y(1+0.1*(N-1)).

So the policy reduces the coefficient on the number of cities by one third, from 0.15 down to 0.1.

[Note, these used to be 0.3 and 0.15 before the vanilla patch change.]

 

[Zeppelin4]

Thanks for the reply. I feel the republic policy could be written better. The word increases makes me feel it would cost me more not less.

 

[Thalassicus]

I agree that's poorly worded, though I'm not sure how it could be explained better. Any ideas?

 

[Ahriman]

"Reduces by one third the extent to which the number of cities increases the cost of new social policies " maybe?
"Reduces the cost per city of new social policies by one third" ?

 

[Zeppelin4]

"Reduces the cost per city of new social policies by one third" ?

This would be much better.