Topic/Genre combo gets "New Combo" Bonus twice

In episode 1 of my Strategy and Tactics series, my 2nd game made during the garage phase was a Government/Simulation game.

In episode 4 (Which won’t be released until 3/20) I wind up doing a medium Government/Simulation game for a publisher. To my surprise, after finishing that game and seeing the exp screen, it comes up with the “New Combo” bonus again in the 2nd game. At first I thought I must have done a Government/Strategy game back in the garage era but I re-watched it and confirmed it was a Government/Simulation game.

The other differences between the games were as follows:

Game 1: Small, For the PC, Audience not researched (Everyone)
Game 2: Medium, The Master V, Audience researched (Still rated Everyone) with a publisher.

As far as I know, the above factors didn’t determine the ‘new combo’ bonus, only the topic and genre.The other thing to note is that I did not end up doing a game report for my first Government/Simulation game. I lost the opportunity when I generated my first custom engine.

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and I assume you didn’t use a secondary genre?

Game reports shouldn’t have any effect on that bonus.

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It was way too early in the game, secondary genres won’t be available for a long time.

My 4th episode is now posted so you can see video evidence of me getting the bonus in both episode #1 and #4.

Here is the 4th one, starting at when I start development on the game that gets the 2nd instance of the bonus.

It happened a third time with a third Goverment/Simulation game.

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