Generic Decisions

[Haze340]

I'm curious on other's thoughts about the generic decisions and how often they are used. I'm primarily talking about what I consider the Holy Trinity: Invest in National Research, Invest in National Infrastructure, and Create Public Works.

For me, I almost exclusively only use my excess money for national research. If I'm the USSR usually I'll save up whatever I can until the purges and spend what I've got to reduce my dissent. Sometimes Public Works if I'm really swimming in money, but I've only found early-game USA to be the only situation where you can consistently repeat this decision enough while it's at such a low cost due to your dissent for it to be worth it over the others.

 

[TemporalAnomaly]

The big use for <i>public works</i> is free unconditional slider moves to the right. The other two also do this at max size, but only if you are already half way to perdision.

<i>National Infrastructure</i> also gives +%TC, which can be very helpful.

 

[Dinglehoff]

I'm curious on other's thoughts about the generic decisions and how often they are used. I'm primarily talking about what I consider the Holy Trinity: Invest in National Research, Invest in National Infrastructure, and Create Public Works.

For me, I almost exclusively only use my excess money for national research. If I'm the USSR usually I'll save up whatever I can until the purges and spend what I've got to reduce my dissent. Sometimes Public Works if I'm really swimming in money, but I've only found early-game USA to be the only situation where you can consistently repeat this decision enough while it's at such a low cost due to your dissent for it to be worth it over the others.

Pre-war, as Germany, I was using public works to boost IC on top of what I was building already, as often as I could trade for enough cash from the various democracies. The research event I do only for dissent reduction or research ahead of time.

 

[Altruist]

the Holy Trinity: Invest in National Research, Invest in National Infrastructure, and Create Public Works.

Public Works: Usually I find enough cash to do it only once.
National Infrastructure: To be honest, usually I do invest quite a lot into infrastructure but I do it directly and I am quite picky in what regions. So I never use the "national infra"-choice, too random and by far not as important as research.
National Research: IMHO the best of all 3 choices: dissent reduction, blueprint and small raise in research speed. If possible I try to do it as often as possible. Investment into intelligence funding has even higher priority, though, especially when playing Germany. And there again I go almost exclusively for "industrial espionage" to steal blueprints.

 

[General Awesome1234]

Usually when I play Germany I do a cheeky strategy of focusing my IC on supplies, and selling them to random countries to spend their money on my own research. I sometimes spend money on War Games, not because it's the optimal strategy, but because I like using alternate commanders than the usual Guderian/Manstein/Rundstedt group

 

[MateuszS]

I very rarely use Public Works; too much money spent for too little gain.