about BE

[Kemia]

as science over rules BE gets up faster than population. so I was curious when its over 100% BE what type of buildings does it affect?

I have always been curious if pumping sci into BE would be more useful to up the BE%

the reason I ask is because I am a sage and very curious about it.... any pointers would be greatly appreciated on this

what I mean by affecting buildings would be TG/barracks, hospitals, schools etc... even banks?

[igotnomilk]

Pumping science into BE% is worthwhile, sure. But generally 80% BE during war is acceptable, anyone going above 100% in war is running really low draft and probably not being very useful.

But it is not as worthwhile as population science - which affects more things than just your BE%. Allows you to run higher draft for example. Also a big help when you get chained.

As far as I know every building is affected by BE% except libraries (only affected by DBE).

In general I would pump BE science last, and not as much as the other sciences.

[Palem]

Capacity buildings aren't affected by BE.

[Kemia]

Thanks im just asking because im running a sage attacker (and just for proven I have +7% BE and 6% pop already, and my draft is up to 63% i maintain between 80-90% BE) currently

[nooblet]

All buildings except capacity buildings are affected by higher BE.
% buildings can never attain more than 25 * modifier effectiveness (i.e., guardstations cannot have more than -50% gains). Higher BE does not exceed this cap, so a building maxes out at less than 50%. <100% BE can never reach this cap for obvious reasons. A few buildings have lower caps.
Flat rate buildings have no cap on how effective they can be.
Libraries are unaffected by BE to prevent a circular reference issue with BE science and libraries, which would make libraries stupid-good at high BE and useless at low BE.

On the value of BE science, and BE in general - It depends on how much you're relying on buildings to make your province work. High tools science is best when combined with stuff like barracks and guardstations which have effects that can't be replicated by anything else. Banks and the economy buildings, and income in general, get little from tools science.