Description of Social Politics or other Achievements

[Mufti999x]

First of all, I am playing in German language. Maybe the following is a translation issue.

Let' say you have a new social politic to pick and it reads (example)

100% Gold and Happiness for the support of Specialists
100% Gold und Zufriedenheit für den Unterhalt von Spezialisten

Why the heck should I pick this? Specialist cost me more? And what do I get?

[RJM]

I would interpret this as the policy, when slotted, pays for 100% of the costs normally levied on specialists.

[TheNightglow]

the english version has similarly clunky wording, in english your card is something like:
+100% Food and Happiness towards maintenance of specialists

what it is supposed to do is reduce the maintenance by 100%
there is another card that is something like
+2 science and -50% towards maintenance of specialists
--> new maintenance becomes 150% of the base maintenance
if you combine both cards you will still pay 50% maintenance^^

btw the "Gold" is wrong right? specialist maintenance is Food and Happiness, building maintenance is Gold and Happiness (which is also covered in a different policy or attribute)

[Ishau]

The wording isn't great and the percentages are not correct.

What it does in reality is pay half the cost. So the 100% towards happiness and food, which is actually 50% towards happiness and food, reduces the cost of a specialist from 2 to 1. Combining it with the 10% means it costs 0.9 food and 0.9 happiness per specialist.

[TheNightglow]

Originally posted by Ishau:

The wording isn't great and the percentages are not correct.

What it does in reality is pay half the cost. So the 100% towards happiness and food, which is actually 50% towards happiness and food, reduces the cost of a specialist from 2 to 1. Combining it with the 10% means it costs 0.9 food and 0.9 happiness per specialist.

oh I always thought the reason why I still see maintenance costs is because I always combine the 100% off card with the more science/culture from specialists card that (i believe) increases the maintenance