Academic Privilage doesn't help science? (bug?)

[Utilitarian]

Am i missing something? Looking at Academic Privilege now it doesn't seem to do anything to actually help sciences at all? It makes my rulers and specialists a little happier but my unemployed pops still are unhappy, and I don't see anything about an improvement to science at all.

Meanwhile Utopian Abundance unemployed pops.... increase science research? Whuh?

As it is, AP just seems like a slightly more expensive version of Stratified Economy that makes my specialists a little happier.

Was this an oversight in the upgrade to 2.2? Like, I don't really care about the power level but it just doesn't seem to have anything to do with science now, despite the description still saying it does. (also like, most of my specialists aren't even researchers?)

 

[Jorgen_CAB]

No... the point is that specialist political power and happiness is increased and thus also your stability is increased quite allot and so are your overall production of goods and resources.

Academic Privilege will not make unemployed more productive or happier in any way, but they also make them less significant for stability purposes and thus production.

Whether this is worth the increase in commercial goods for specialist will entirely depend on your economy or not. If you have a highly productive specialist economy it might be a considerable boost, especially to those planets with allot of specialists.

 

[Utilitarian]

No... the point is that specialist political power and happiness is increased and thus also your stability is increased quite allot and so are your overall production of goods and resources.

Academic Privilege will not make unemployed more productive or happier in any way, but they also make them less significant for stability purposes and thus production.

Whether this is worth the increase in commercial goods for specialist will entirely depend on your economy or not. If you have a highly productive specialist economy it might be a considerable boost, especially to those planets with allot of specialists.

But.... what does that have to due with my populace being encouraged to pursue academics and sciences? Like, yes I understand what the mechanical benefits of Academic Privilege are (making specialists happy) but this is a really different effect from prior to 2.2 and doesn't seem to really fit the flavor much?

 

[Incompetent]

It's rather poorly explained in-game, but Academic Privilege does actually give +10% physics/society/engineering from jobs in addition to its other effects.

 

[Jorgen_CAB]

But.... what does that have to due with my populace being encouraged to pursue academics and sciences? Like, yes I understand what the mechanical benefits of Academic Privilege are (making specialists happy) but this is a really different effect from prior to 2.2 and doesn't seem to really fit the flavor much?

Academics are not just those working with science, it include all specialists. And as said it will give a small benefit to science directly as well.

 

[Baqar79]

It's rather poorly explained in-game, but Academic Privilege does actually give +10% physics/society/engineering from jobs in addition to its other effects.

I was rather disappointed when that bonus was lost in 2.2, but it looks like it only disappeared from the description, and does still indeed work (just switched my current stratified race to it and it does indeed get the additional +10% bonus).

They really need to add that to the living standards description, but I appreciate the information!

 

[Utilitarian]

It's rather poorly explained in-game, but Academic Privilege does actually give +10% physics/society/engineering from jobs in addition to its other effects.

Ah, so, present, but just neglected to be explained. I appreciate the heads up.

 

[Surimi]

But.... what does that have to due with my populace being encouraged to pursue academics and sciences? Like, yes I understand what the mechanical benefits of Academic Privilege are (making specialists happy) but this is a really different effect from prior to 2.2 and doesn't seem to really fit the flavor much?

Academic privilege also causes pops to be more highly weighted for researcher jobs, to reflect them being encouraged to pursue science.