The last 10% is actually the most valuable part to ensure. It prevents critical failures, which can prevent an action from ever taking place. And considering how important excellent munitions are for our military, that improving the factories will increase our yearly revenue, and how time critical it is to buff up the CAU before they cease to exist as a polity (not only losing us a potential ally, increasing the viability of conquest for world powers, but also losing us 3900 credits/turn in trade) it is an extremely important that it succeeds this turn.
I see, this is just a matter of differing philosophies. I despise being able to boost actions to 100% except in the most simple of cases, simply because
anything can and will go wrong at some point, no matter how well-prepared you are against it. There's no guarantees. I remember there was a change in how boosting worked related to this, but I don't know the specifics of it or where to find them. Regardless, this does make sense from a mechanics standpoint. A couple of points though. Our munitions are as important to us as munitions are to anyone. That's... not really an argument. Everyone needs good munitions. I understand improving yearly revenue from trade, that makes a level of sense. But the CAU is doing just fine. They kicked the shit out of France last time I checked. We don't need to amp ourselves up because the CAU is reeling on the brink. France took some backyard that nobody cares about, got their nose broken, then backed off.
That aside, the net effect of what Void Stalker is doing is purchasing an extra action for every 10 turns for 9000 credits.
For the sake of not wanting to figure out what maths were used for that, I'm going to believe this. Also call it a pretty measly benefit.
We regularly spend significantly more to purchase action slots.
...No we don't. Where did that come from? Here's where all our action slots came from and what they costed.
Industrial: Create Department of Industry, Cost 100 over 1 turn
Financial: Create Finance Committee, Cost 100 over 1 turn
R&D 1: Create Science and Technology Advisory Board, Cost 100 over 1 turn
R&D 2: XCOM Research Agreement, Cost 1000 over 1 turn
R&D 3: Improved Research Algorithms, Cost 3000 over 3 turns
Combined: 4300
Our combined costs for unlocking all the action slots we've unlocked so far is less than half what you say is being spent to get one action every ten turns.
Once again, that's a
deplorably pathetic benefit to receive for that investment.
EDIT: Grammar.
Were, not was.
