maxing sliders

The ability to maximize policy sliders is odd.

Why should there be a limit on how much you can invest in police for example?
This has the gamplay effect of me just maximizing most of the policies I chose.

I would recommend that you are able to spend much more on most policies.
The Idea is to balance it more with diminishing returns and growing side effects,
so that it not sensible to maximize.

Yup I agree, this is partly implemented for some policies in today’s patch (1.02), for example, state schools effect on education, and police spending’s effect on crime and violent crime, is all now modeled with diminishing returns.