Can help you fish for the right advisor, but definitely not worth 400 Admin. The weakest idea in the set, barely useful at all. Of course, this is without mentioning that this synergizes with Innovativeness gain incredibly, and that stacking tech cost in general is incredibly worth it. If you take Innovative ideas on tech 5, as i would recommend, over the course of the game you save 1740 of each monarch type, alone paying for more than half the group. This tech cost alone basically pays itself off. This basically means this single idea alone pays off for 2 others, AND you get a free institution embracement cost on top just as a nice decoration. This single idea combines 3 whole ideas from 3 different groups, basically meaning you’re paying 400 Admin for 3 ideas.

-10% tech cost and -10% institution embracement cost:.

The effect of this idea is basically to increase the breaking point of when the Prestige loss and gain balance out. Now, Prestige is one of the strongest national stats, but it is also easy to accumulate. This idea basically guarantees that you stay at high Prestige, but doesn’t really do as much until you actually have high Prestige. 1% Prestige decay is a rather average start to an idea group.

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