On Bergen Phase 4, its to help us get ahead of the Mk 1 Fusion energy crisis starting in 66 since per Ithiliid we will not start any refits until the plants start failing. At the heart of it is a discord quote from Ithiliid from July 23rd, 22 on our fusion energy crisis
"your options are basically
- Build LT Power
- Crash Bergen
- Starve for energy."
I want to get Phase 4 done and then see if Phase 5 needs to be started or we can do Reykjavik 5.
At even three dice per turn, we can start pulling ahead pretty readily. It's not at all clear to me that Phase 4 is going to help much there in the immediate short term, if only because it's going to be hard to maintain support for
more than three dice on fusion power per turn while the alloy foundries are still an attractive alternative.
If we need
Bergen Phase 4, it's either because of the hypothetical where we lose the third fusion die, or because we're crash-building a phase of fusion plants per quarter like we did during the worst parts of the Regency War. The former is, again, speculative. The latter isn't going to start happening within the next 1-2 quarters because there will be no immediate motive to do so and the existence of the alloy foundries will pull people away from that anyway.
So I'm not seeing the rush.
While I agree with you on "working on Reykjavik lets us do other projects we need to do", Bergen does answer a pressing need: we can use at least as much superconducting material as the entire completed complex could produce, and we could likely use it close to immediately. If for nothing else, than for improving power transmission. And I expect there are many others, including a whole slew of military uses.
Yes, but there are plenty of other pressing uses for myomers too.
My point isn't "
Bergen Phase 4 just gives us more of something we already have but could use more of, and is therefore pointless." It's "
Bergen Phase 4 gives us more of something we already have but could use more of,
and so does Reykjavik, so it's a wash."
My plan does not have
Dairy Ranches, because right now we'd just be building giant empty domes. Because the cows that would occupy those domes haven't been born yet and won't for quite some time, despite enthusiastic efforts to speed everything up with artificial insemination. No, we can finish the second phase of the dairy ranch domes later. There's no rush.
I'm working on researching lab-grown meat options as a supplement. Because
that is going to be
scalable, and is also much more practical than, say, trying to free-range herds of beef cattle (or any other meat animal) in the current environment.
and NYC. NYC because we have serious issues in the area with tiberium spikes erupting from the ground. We need to fix that narratively before we lose the entire city.
Tiberium veins erupting from the ground in the middle of urban areas is
not new; it's a known problem we've been having for decades and is one of the major motivators behind the invention of the tiberium spike, which has been ubiquitous since some time after the end of Tib War II in 2030.
Having that happen is just one of the "shit happens" consequences of living on the tiberian Earth of this game setting.
Unless the point of those plans that switch it is to lose NYC?
That's rude. Derpmind's right. Don't go there that way. I'd rather lose your vote than gain support on the terms of someone arguing like this. No one's plan among the leading plans is ever about
causing some kind of disaster on purpose.
Besides, all the leading plans have a Blue Zone inhibitor
somewhere. New York isn't unique in being threatened by tiberium veins. Plenty of places around the world are. It's just that we didn't have a natural one roll while building a major project in those cities, so we didn't
hear about it.