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What is this decision? It gives a 1% deduction on research points and prestige and then tells, that it will change after 10 years to give 0% bonus in research fields all over the place.

Do the 0% gradually increase or is it a bugged event right now?
 

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You start (at least in the USA) with bonuses to commerce, culture (both +10%) and industry (+5%) and -10% research in army and navy techs. So if you really want army or navy techs, take this.
 

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It changes your country's academy. Look at your techtree, there are some indicators of your current academy. It's basically school of thought.

The classic academia has no bonuses regarding to tech.
 

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If you really want to push your military techs then you should change the entry in your USA country file from commerce_tech_school to prussian_tech_school where you get a +10% Bonus on the army tech and industry tech. Or you change it to traditional_academic so you relative your tech approach on a certain base.

Just my sixpence sofar...

greetings

Mike