What is the break-even point for any policies that can reduce monarch point costs?
For example, take the Humanist-Trade policy: Exchange of Ideas. If you were to take those as your first 2 national idea groups, and had that policy activated for every subsequent idea group, you would save 1680 monarch points. So, as long as you spend less than 1680 months (140 years) with the policy active, you've at least broken even in total monarch point costs. Or, to look at it another way: So long as you can complete an idea set in 23 years, 4 months with EoI activated, you're ahead of the game.
That one's easy to figure out. Its the others that are trickier. For example, take the three policies that reduce advisor costs (each by -10%): Education Act, Foreign Advisors, Diplomatic Cooperation. Even running all 3 of those, if you're able to afford 3 3-star advisors where you would have only been able to afford 2's before, you break perfectly even. However, that assumes that you have 3-star advisors in each category available, and that you couldn't afford them without those policies.
Then, there are others, like Cultural Unity, which gives you an additional -20% to cultural conversion costs. At 25 points per base tax, so long as you convert provinces equivalent to 2.4 base tax per year, you're breaking even. Of course, this is not exactly the most practical use of your monarch points in the first place, so thats not a very good consideration, either (granted, if you're Muscovy/Russia, this bumps you up to -65%, not too bad).
Are there any other policies that can pay for themselves, outside of very specific scenarios?
For example, take the Humanist-Trade policy: Exchange of Ideas. If you were to take those as your first 2 national idea groups, and had that policy activated for every subsequent idea group, you would save 1680 monarch points. So, as long as you spend less than 1680 months (140 years) with the policy active, you've at least broken even in total monarch point costs. Or, to look at it another way: So long as you can complete an idea set in 23 years, 4 months with EoI activated, you're ahead of the game.
That one's easy to figure out. Its the others that are trickier. For example, take the three policies that reduce advisor costs (each by -10%): Education Act, Foreign Advisors, Diplomatic Cooperation. Even running all 3 of those, if you're able to afford 3 3-star advisors where you would have only been able to afford 2's before, you break perfectly even. However, that assumes that you have 3-star advisors in each category available, and that you couldn't afford them without those policies.
Then, there are others, like Cultural Unity, which gives you an additional -20% to cultural conversion costs. At 25 points per base tax, so long as you convert provinces equivalent to 2.4 base tax per year, you're breaking even. Of course, this is not exactly the most practical use of your monarch points in the first place, so thats not a very good consideration, either (granted, if you're Muscovy/Russia, this bumps you up to -65%, not too bad).
Are there any other policies that can pay for themselves, outside of very specific scenarios?
