The argument is more that the Barghest had a massively uprated drive system, pilot setup, and other systems, to the point that it was valid to issue it a new name, rather than just calling it the "Banshee-B". It may not have been a huge change, but the difference between the base Barghest and the new version (2 missiles added) is much less.
By the way, I do accept that you won this argument... except I could have sworn there were more significant propulsion changes between the TW3.5 'Barghest' and the TW3.75 'Barghest-bis' than between the TW2 'Banshee' and the TW3.5 'Barghest.'
Actually, every 100 Resource processing capacity of modern refineries is 1 unit of STUs. We currently have about 1300 Resources worth of modern refineries.
Yes, but we can't seem to stockpile STU's by having a production surplus, which is frustrating but there you go.
Under present circumstances, as long as we have a sizeable surplus, converting our refineries is not
urgent, even if it is ultimately desirable.
Note that my Q3 plan includes refinery refits, and so does the tentative Q4 pseudo-plan I penciled in just to see how we'd get by with the extra Philly dice stretching our resources!
I, too, support the refinery refits...
but they are in no way a vital prerequisite for something like the Karachi Sprint, and my impression was that
@Dmol8 seems to have decided that they
are a prerequisite.
With that said, if we only concern ourself with maximizing STU production, a viable alternative is to simply build new (STU-producing) refineries and mothball old ones. The quasi-mandatory second round of refinery construction we need to do by the end of the Plan anyway, plus Chicago and Jeddah-Medina and first round of smaller new refineries and the old-school refineries we've already refit, would be more than enough to cover virtually all the RpT income we're planning to get from tiberium during this Plan, and to provide us with a significant boost in STU income. The old-school refineries would hardly ever need to touch a green rock anymore except in emergencies, and their inability to produce STUs would become much less of a problem.
