@Simon_Jester , do you really think that we need to do another Services weep just based on a GDI online snippet that made vauge allusions to NOD infiltrators? It's only been a year and a half since the last sweep, and there's nothing else that indicates any need to do that.
Does this mean that I can put things in GDI online about Nod infiltraitors and make the thread sweep a segment
whenever I want to? Because that's the precedent you're setting here.
1) My plan has fallow Services dice, so there's much less opportunity cost to doing so. All I'm losing is the chance to roll
Administrative Assistance on another project, and since my Resource budget is pretty tight as-is, that's not necessarily such a bad thing.
2) People do/did sporadically worry about it. If I can reassure them, I don't consider it a big cost. But I'll consider it.
Thank you. Again, I'm sorry to the thread for my mistake; no doubt we could have used that 10R better last turn. But I hope people are able to adjust their plans to use the 10R now.
Anyways. The following plan commentary might be a bit incongruous with all the above, but I was almost finished with it so I might as well post it now:
First off, this project costs 25R per die, not 20R, putting you 5R over budget...
The good news is that you being right twice cancels itself out- I'm 5 R over budget, but I have 10 R more to play with than I thought. I'm going back to edit in words along these lines, and to correct the chance of success.
Combining this with
@Vehrec , I
could conceivably apply a second
Administrative Assistance die to either
Tiberium Prospecting or
Ferro-Aluminum Armor, those being the only 5 R/die projects left in the entire field. In neither case does that strike me as being much more productive than doing a probably redundant Services review, since those are 200-point and 350-point projects, respectively, and getting an average of about 50 Progress closer to completion on either of them fills my heart with the meh of apathy.
To get 10 R (which would open up more interesting ways to use the second
Administrative Assistance slot), I'd need to free up 5 R from somewhere. Also... well...
Aside that, I have a major complaint with your plan: You're researching the [] Advanced Laser System but without doing the [] Tactical Airborne Laser Development. Doing both should give us a project next turn to immediately refit our air force with very teched-up lasers, giving them one of the edges they need to keep air superiority. As our immediate priority next turn is to implement at least some deployments to upgrade our air force, I'd like to have this as an option next turn rather than delaying it. We don't know how much it'll cost, but if possible it would be good to roll out the drones and lasers together. (And possibly neural interfaces for the air force, too.) I would like to ask you to consider doing this project, please.
With the same 5 R, I can reward
@Derpmind for her mathematical Stakhanovitism by taking the
Hallucinogen Countermeasures die and 'promoting' it to
Tactical Airborne Laser.
Now, I'm not
entirely comfortable with this because we
WILL be facing those hallucinogens in combat next turn and we
WILL take casualties because of Nod using them against us. Having the countermeasures a turn earlier almost certainly would save lives, and I suspect the deployment project for said countermeasures will be relatively cheap.
And also because I expect
Wingman Drone Deployment to be such a strenuous demand on our dice budget next turn that, combined with pressure to build at least one shipyard, there's not necessarily going to be enough wiggle room to
also roll out the tactical laser pods in any case.
But I
could do it, and I respect
@Derpmind , so unless I hear objections, I will probably make that change. I'd rather wait a few hours to give people time to make their voices heard. Events may make me unable to update the plan quickly at that time, or I may forget, but I do want to indicate at least
willingness.
(I'd ping my voters, but there are like 30 of them, and mass-pings like that have gotten me enough flak in the past that I don't pressingly want more)
I would definitely prefer having tactical air lasers done as well and support changing the plan slightly.
The fact that you voted for my plan in the first place and want this change certainly tips the scales in favor of the change... but see my remarks to Derpmind in the paragraph above.
...
The practical upshot of all this, though, is that I'm
open to doing something other than the arguably very redundant Services review with those two Bureaucracy dice; I just can't think of anything specific that's likely to have an impact.
Making some political promises in exchange for getting to keep the moon mining income through reapportionment again sounds nice, but we're already tightly stretched in quite a few places and the war may put some unpredictable pressures on us, so I don't know.
