Fools! So afraid of losing even the tiniest bit of control that you refuse to accept that there will always be missed opportunities! So insistent on proving you're right! It holds you back, and one day you'll see! You'll all--
There are plenty of opportunities I'm willing to miss, but this ain't one of them.
Besides,
I was already planning to do this project this turn anyway even before the whole passive-aggressive "guess we'll just forget about that" thing happened.
the only issues I find with your plan are the tib spikes...
The theory behind researching the tiberium spikes changed when we learned that our first-generation "crudely plug a Scrin tiberium accelerator in backwards" inhibitors were actually
pushing tiberium underground because tiberium is slightly motile. The accelerator is designed draw it towards a Scrin mining rig while accelerating its rate of overall mass increase, so the inhibitors were pushing it away. The science teams apparently fixed the problem off-screen, but the lesson learned is "maybe these tiberium accelerator/inhibitor devices with their alien xenotech operating principles are more complicated than we thought," so doing some controlled experiments with them seems like a good idea. I very much doubt we'll implement them on a larger scale for obvious reasons, but we need all the tiberium knowledge we can get.
and not doing the last phase of Alloys since that one gives a 10% increase to tib income
It does not seem to do that according to the list. Instead, it seems to give us a -10 Progress cost to tiberium mining projects. So for example, a glacier mining project that cost 250 Progress would now cost 240 Progress. This isn't that great, as it effectively means we save 1/9 of a Tiberium die on every project we do. Which means we spend like 4-5 Heavy Industry dice (at a high Resource price) and to recoup that many Tiberium dice we have to build about 36-45 phases of tiberium mining actions, which is a huge number- more than we could conceivably do in the current Four Year Plan, and something that probably wouldn't pay for itself for several years.
It may have other benefits, but they're not quantified, and we have a TON of other stuff to do, much of it Plan-critical. So if that's the only foreseeable direct benefit, putting it off starts seeming like a better idea.
I was thinking about what exactly this meant. While obviously it's a stepping stone project we need to do to unlock better, more powerful projects while only getting a marginal gain from this one, I went back and read some of the past Alloy results.
So working out blades would let GDI figure out how to alloy STUs in a ways when different alloys are layered, and make up for short comings one alloy has in areas another doesn't.
Taken with this, makes me think that this would be how we can start working on high end vehicles frames and the like.
Hm. Interesting speculation. With that said, we've done a huge amount of investment into alien alloys, and it's probably time to take a break from that for a year or so, let what we already know and have learned since early 2062 "cook," and then get back into it.
At least that's my feeling.
Wait the YZ-10 Hub is in the Blue Zone now. Does that mean the YZ-10 Inhibitor replaces the BZ-2 Inhibitor? Also is YZ-11 still under mostly NOD control?