About the Specialisation Index ...

Thanks for starting a thread! 

I don't like the way it forces me to buy certain buildings before I can access the ones I want. Looks  a simple cash-grab on the surface, but its forcing me, for example to spend the gold keys I need for war cards before I can spend any SimCash. I'm not buying gold keys, I'm just stalled on enjoyment. Where's the benefit to anyone?

It also seems to cancel any population boost for a building that doesn't contribute to the index. The building states it gives a 50% boost, but when I place it, I get 0.  Maybe a glitch, or a llama, but it feels like false advertising.

I can see how it could potentially help my planning, by simplifying the population boost for that specialization into an easy to read index, an improvement over the bunch of awkward blue lines that go off-screen. I still see the blue lines in Mayor's pass, which isn't part of the index. If the index accurately shows the population boost, that could help to plan how I want to reach target populations for opening regions, for example. But that remains an if.