Haven't played this game in 7 years, I see there are bonuses now, what do they do and which do you guys invest in?

Building costs for those growing to 40k+ acres
Expenses for commie indies doing the commie indy destock
Luck for all-explore countries
PM regen for countries once they switch to MBR
Decay for those who plan to stockpile food early and want to sell off their food stockpile before they plan on buying military, or those who plan to stockpile late and want to not have to bother with buying food
Defense isn't really used by many people right now
Turns is an extremely popular bonus, probably the most widely used
Indy booms are occasionally used by larger indies, but turns is better for them for most of the set (or other bonuses, especially expenses)
PCI booms are used by cashers once they are done growing, but they use turns while growing (or other bonuses)
Food & Oil booms are basically never used, as turns (or other bonuses) are better for farmers and oilers unless they are keeping an extraordinarily large military and are done growing.
Free GDI is often used by people that join GDI early and plan on being in it most of the set.

defense is used mostly by war countries.

turns are good and safe to get especially at early set and when doing batrch explore.

awesome thanks.

This thread beat me to the question. thanks

Thanks!

i kinda like food booms as a farmer.

cash and food boom are both (current production x 3)

I thought turns should always be better for a farmer since a farmer should grow til the end?

farmer needs resource decay.

Is there a cap to these bonuses? Like how many resource decays can you pile up before it stops? And does this just affect food decay?

And does luck affect explore rates or increases all the boom and missile rates too? And what about the old "mehul factor" in land grabs?

There is the logical cap to bonuses that you would expect. For example, you can't have negative building costs. Read the help description for luck for an answer to your other question.

resource decay affects bushels and money over 2b.

i've got 16 points but can't seem to click the free permanent gdi bonus..

do i need to manually join GDI first, then use the bonus? Or should I be able to click it right off the bat if I have 16 points?

join gdi first

Go with the luck

ive always gone with turns until i stopped lging.

the if indy, the indy boom/ if farmer, food boom, if casher, PCI boom, if ttr, then keep going with turns.

i'm a casher with all my points in expense. With military tech. I'm paying about half of what i pay had I not invest in expense. Being fat and carrying high military(especially turrets) it's saving me about 250-300 mil a day right now in primary.

yea expense is must if has alot land and defense to keep that land.