Scientific Funding

[Florryworry]

The new universities give a development cost reduction but don't do what they are supposed to which is boost scientific progress. Now I know you can't possibly put a tech cost reduction on these babies because you can build them infinitely and that would skew balance.
How about you add the feature for people to press the button: 'scientific funding' giving them +1 of each monarch point per month or even make them choose between monarch points saying something "sponsor millitary research".
This button would require you to have 1 university for every 100 development (in order to be able to give the brightest minds of your state an education) and would cost 10% of your monthly income each month.
It would be very expensive but very much worth it. If you make scientific funding have a % tech cost reduction people would awkwardly press it on and off all the time.
As you grow larger you'll be forced to build more universities and deliver more ducats to the ministry of education, you can add events to having scientific funding active with bad events like radical thinkers and good events like scientific innovation.
Also innovation a very unpopular idea group right now could be buffed by giving you a discount to the amount of universities needed as a finisher or possibly a discount to the 10% income.

Best part is non of this is fundamental to the current game, it's just an added bonus and therefore you could make it DLC.

I'd buy it!

Keep up the amazing job guys and coninue having a nice vacation

 

[BrokenSky]

Or it could give tech cost reduction percentage equal to the number of years since the decision was implemented, up to some maximum, say 10, and have each year it's turned off reduce this. Some kind of education tradition or something? Some Innovative policy could increase the cap to... say 15%? or maybe 12%... To get the benefit you'd have to keep it invested, as turning it off would immediately drop the percentage by one:

Explicitly:
Modifier activated / dis activated by decision:
Requires Number of Universities >= Total development / 100.
-while active:
* Each full year adds +1 Education tradition (needs a better name) up to a maximum (default 10)
* Receive tech discount equal to -(Education tradition)%
* -10% National Tax income
(* More likely to receive events relating to technology (e.g. improvements in land technology, Land research flawed etc.) )
(* (Very slightly) More likely to get natural scientist adviser in pool )
-when dis-activated:
* lose 1 Education Tradition
-while dis-activated:
* Each full year gives -1 Education tradition, minimum 0.

Some innovative policy could give:
+5 maximum Education Tradition
(Possibly something to do with secondary education - grammar schools or something?)