Edward Ferrero Rocher

Thanks, just wanted to make sure I wasn't misunderstanding something. Fred that's a good point about recovering weapons, I hadn't considered that.

Hello generals! Forgive me if this has been covered before, been playing the game since EA but new to the forums. Am I missing something, or is politics flatly better than medicine, economy and training? It's a 2.5% bonus to both gold and recruits, where the others are a 2.5% discount for something specific. The discount and the bonus are basically equivalent, except you can use the bonus gold for whatever you want, plus you get manpower. Medicine isn't exactly a discount, but 2.5% recovered casualties is equivalent to a 2.5% discount on veteran replacement. The cost comes out the same, but training is a little better because it also discounts new vet recruits past your casualty figures. A discount is slightly better than a bonus to income, but the difference is so small that it's vastly outweighed by the flexibility of politics and the fact that it also gets you recruits. Numbers for an example: $10,000 income 22.5 base cost per vet for a one star unit (idk if other things factor into vet cost) = 444.4 vets With 4 points politics: 11,000 income 22.5 cost = 488.9 vets 4 points training: 10,000 income 20.25 cost = 493.8 vets The difference is tiny, and politics gets you flexibility and manpower as well. So it seems like the economic choices for career points make sense in this order: Politics Economy (discounts every man, but real value depends on political points spending and number of captured guns. Too lazy to run the numbers right now) Training (only discounts vet replacements while Econ. theoretically discounts everyone. But captured/recovered guns + politics points may even this out or make training better than econ) Medicine (At first I though makes some sense as CSA because of manpower crunch, but manpower bonus from politics cancels it out) IMO it would make more sense if the three non-politics options had a higher discount, so you would have to choose between specialization and flexibility. As it is though, it looks like politics is strictly better until you max it out.