I'm a bit surprised that the Military and Satellite Bays aren't getting a few more votes when we know that there is a Visitor base in the solar system.
I expect we'll be seeing some altered projects for the purpose of fighting off attacks from space next plan. Will be interesting to see what they are.
Well, we already have some of the "killer app" projects kicking around.
ASAT Phase 5 is all about expanding the weapon network in space.
High Orbit Ion Cannon (likely to return in different form) is all about putting some more hard-hitting ion gun batteries out in space "facing outwards."
Orbital Laser Satellites is among other things a
defensive weapon system, but also space defense in general. I personally anticipate that some of these projects will show up as Military Plan targets in 2062.
By contrast,
OSRCT,
Orbital Nuclear Caches, and
Tactical Ion Cannons are more focused at space-to-surface threats, aimed
down at Nod, and are less likely to be favored.
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The trick is... you ultimately don't win wars just with fortifications. The known Visitor installation in the solar system, which likely plays a role in any plan for them to return, is way out around Jupiter and turtling against it won't help. Either they just sit there and we glower at them from behind fortifications they have no intent of attacking (and perhaps no capacity to attack), or they're laboriously rebuilding a transmitter to call for a massive reinforcement wave in which case giving them free time to do so is a losing a game.
We need the means to project power to Jupiter and punch out the base there, or at least investigate it. Not just the means to "refight the last war" by blasting a hypothetical
second Visitor fleet identical to the last one that attacks us
if it happens to attack Earth, as opposed to, say, settling down around Venus and using its tiberium to von Neumann themselves up an even larger and nastier force.
I do want the advanced mats stuff, but I'd rather make a entire station dedicated to it and it's experiments.
Thinking about a advanced science lab put in between a shipyard and station foundry, that is to say industrial applications, rubs me the wrong way.
I want enterprise to be totally dedicated to space industry. Churning out ships and parts like mad for everything else. A blue collar environment.
Advanced materials should be a shiny pristine lab complex station.
To be fair, it sounds like the
Advanced Materials Bay option is more like a steel mill than like a research lab. It
makes stuff.
So your okay with having a long wait on any specialized space foundries, or not having distributed space foundries, or having to hold off on more advanced Fusion power tech (just a little)?
I've never liked questions like this, because they feel passive-aggressive to me when posed this way.
"So you're okay with not having X?" No, when you put it that way, I want every bay option available, all of them. Can I have that? No, so I have to prioritize.
As you well know.
