'Critical mass' culture research
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The TEC research says that culture drop is 100% per jump instead of 200 %.
Even after researching this, when looking at a grav well, it still says culture decay is at - 200% per jump.
I suppose the tooltip in game not changing is most likely the thing that is actually applied, meaning, the research is not doing anything.