Suggestion: Free first Idea upon unlocking group

[unmerged(303856)]

Why would you want to eliminate the "triple" effect? Just because you can change the system does not mean that you should, after all...

Oh, I know that. It's not that I see it as a design flaw, it's just something that bothers me in a very minor way. I also feel that picking a group should have some effect immediately. If both of these annoyances could have been fixed with a single change, I would have been pleased. I can certainly deal with it though.

 

[Cymsdale]

I get the impression that if the initial implementation was that the first idea unlocked when the group was opened, and someone posted a thread saying the first idea should cost points to unlock, it would be a lot of the same people exclaiming how terrible the idea was.

 

[MylesSCP]

I also don't love that the only, and I'm making quotation marks with my fingers here, bonus you get to starting the idea group is the opportunity to spend more points later for the actual benefits. It would be nice if there was some small bonus to start off with, similar to how the completion bonus works, but not nearly as strong. There's so much opportunity cost for Monarch Points no matter where you put them, it seems too much that selecting an idea is pure opportunity cost for benefits still hundreds of monarch points down the line.