Quote Originally Posted by Slaists View Post
Note that consecutive state gifts are just a waste of money. The first state gift (2500) gives a boost of +100 points with the target country. This boost decays over time. For example, on the next turn, there would be only +98 of the boost remaining. So, if, on that turn you make another gift (2500), your end-turn relationship with that country (discounting all other factors) would be +100... So, effectively, you just wasted 2500 for boosting the relationship for 2 points.

Also, gifts of all levels +2500, +5000, +10,000 all take the player to the same relationship boost level: +100.
after the 3rd gift or so i realised that it wasnt increasing the boost really - but is it really the case that all the levels of gift give the same (maximum) boost of 100? is there any benefit to using a more expensive gift then?