First you will see the notification if a trend goes over 50% the issue is there are 160 topics so the Ai companies are increasing different ones each time and nothing crossed that 50% mark yet for you but they will..
I was thinking about what you said and I think your right about the end game vs early game. I was thinking the dev costs - would be great late game when making multi million dollar AAA titles, but at that time it wont be as important as the right perk is early on. I think I need to re-balance the perks to be more viable early game I think that's a really good point your making. I will have to do some calculations, but I think I can tweak it so that they are better early game options and maybe reduce there power in late game etc
If I didnt include RPG that is an oversight obviously RPG should be there I thought I had role playing but if I don't I will def add it.