Quote Originally Posted by vines View Post
This is a very good question. The answer depends on how big your military is. Remember pop science adds a lot to nw/a for a few reasons 1. science adds networht just by its self. 2 it add people and people add to networth 3. the bigger population the more likely one is to make there military bigger. Bigger military mean more net worth. If one has a super big army one does not want to us science. I will use my province as an example I'm playing gnome this age. My MOD military is running at 99%. I have no science because if I did that would make my net/a too high. See it all depends on your strategy and what that strategy calls for to work correctly.


you forget a key element.

Let's say 100k pop sci gets you 5% extra pop on a dwarf.
I don't remember how high sci nw is, but let's just say those 100k sci points = 1000nw, to make it easier.


5% extra pop, which goes into army. You could get 5% extra army in another way, by growing 8% land. This is because you need peasants if you get more land.
That 8% land will cost you ALOT of nw, and surely more than 1000nw. I lost my nw calcs since my comp crashed, but I believe it was around 60-65 nw for 1acre+building.

No need to say that 5% pop sci pays off if you're 150 acres or 15000 acres. The bigger you are, the more it pays off.