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It depends on which things we prioritize.
The thing is, the biggest thing people a lot of people are doing to get 200-300 R reserve funds (Void Stalker is a notable exception) going into 2062Q1 is skipping the banking reforms. That's been quite consistent, and I don't think it's a good move.
...If we don't lean heavily into vein mining and we don't deliberately pursue Capital Goods intensive options, it likely won't. But then, we really do want to fill a 250-300 point stockpile as soon as possible. Whether we're at +18 or +12 makes a significant difference for when Capital Goods really hit the civilian economy in a big way, even though neither scenario is "in danger of hitting single digits."
Likewise, whether we feel we can afford to do things like AEVAs or not makes a practical difference.
Predictive Modeling is a mistake; we're not in such a strong Capital Goods position that we can afford to take a -10 hit right on the eve of starting a new Plan when we can't afford to do any megaprojects in a hurry and have several other -Capital Goods actions to take (Zone Armor factories, electric car factories, vein mines).
Security reviews are a bad idea right now; we have too much else that pressingly needs doing. It's robbing Peter to pay Paul.
It, along with Ferro-Aluminum Armor Refits and Railgun Munitions, are perfect projects to do in 2062Q1-Q2, because of the low cost per die.
Mashing the button on them now when we are wrapping up a tremendous amount of unfinished business including multiple Plan promises would be a mistake. But expect me to mash that button soon.
We have multiple lines of evidence indicating that GDI has no specific plans to use incendiaries as some kind of hard counter to biomonsters, and by now we have more than enough experience to deduce whether that would work.
Prime, we are already laboring under about -160 RpT of line items. If we can get most of that off our backs during reallocation without spending our PS all the way down into the ground, then fine, we can do that and create new spinoff bureaus next turn, in 2062.
But we already have such a massive pile of line items that until we actually see the exchange rate for converting lost Political Support into line items taken off our budget, it would be reckless in the extreme to saddle ourselves with an additional -50 RpT of line item expenses in 2061Q4.
The bureaus will make sense soon; they do not make sense now.
Acknowledged. Will fix this and other issues soon.
Will fix these issues
In neither case will I really be counting on the slim possibility of completion, so I don't consider it very relevant. As the station bay has the larger payoff, it will be easier to justify dice investment into it in large, adequate amounts in 2062Q1, when we do NOT want to truly slow-walk those projects because we can't start Columbia or Shala until they are finished. Thus, I want to pour roughly even numbers of dice into both. I cannot complete both on my current dice budget, so all I can really do is get both so close to finishing that they are effectively "done deals" in Q1.
This is a valid argument. At the same time, I very much want to maintain a reputation for Treasury keeping its promises, and I am morally certain we will need to invest in ASAT Phase 5 next Plan. I will stand by that dice allocation, viewing the expansion into early Phase 5 as a logical response to the realization that there is still an active threat from deep space.
It is important to recognize the difference between Nod-the-polity and Nod-the-ideology.
Nod-the-ideology... I'm honestly not sure what it even is after you strip out reverence of Kane and loyalty to the polity, but whatever it is, it's just another religion. Humanity can live with it.
Nod-the-polity is a very different and far more toxic matter, at least as it exists now, and GDI has a very strong incentive to keep it contained to the Earth so far as possible.
Between this and having only one die on tiberium power, are you sure you're okay for Energy?
That's a lot of megaprojects for a modest return on investment in political benefits. Even if all of this is stuff you want to do anyway, it bears consideration that we cannot do everything at once in a finite amount of time.
Remember that that's 1200 points of Infrastructure investment (on top of two planned cities we're already committed to!) in exchange for, frankly, not much Housing in return. And that each "Phase 5" of an industrial capstone is typically an investment of something like 15-30 dice in its own right. We can easily write far more checks than we have the power to cash.
While I have every intention of completing North Boston Phase 5, I am not sure I want to make a binding commitment to do a 2400-point megaproject for +5 Political Support at a time when we have at least as much PS as we know what to do with.
With sufficient tech development, yes.
I'm already in favor of developing autodocs when they become available, to be clear. I think it'll be superfluous for civilian life, and admittedly that is the context I was thinking of, but the military applications are, yes, excellent.
