Continuing arcology construction has only partially solved the actual distribution of people. While there are enough units to house everyone up to a high standard, and the construction has been pushing down rental costs as it increases supply, neither has been enough to really induce population shifts that would make the refits (although needed) less disruptive.
However this has meant that finally, there are open spaces in arcologies, and while GDI certainly does not practice rental systems that intentionally encourage a certain percentage of properties standing vacant, there are advantages to the system, with a certain amount of the arcology rooms being able to be converted to other needs such as short term residential so that major upgrades can be done over the course of several years in some of the oldest arcologies, and otherwise being able to do more thorough upkeep and maintenance without forcing people to move on a regular basis.
Looks like Stage 5 is still very desirable. Not a priority, but certainly well worth doing.
[ ] Suborbital Shuttle Service (Phase 3)
A final and most significant step, prioritizing even more Leopards for the suborbital role will make it so that GDI can establish a regular network of flights, and create efficiencies of scale rather than brute forcing the problem. While there are significant limits imposed by the turnaround time of a Leopard class fusioncraft, there are also significant advantages.(Progress 154/150: 25 resources per die) (+8 Logistics) [95]
Mini-capstone Complete.
[ ] Bergen Superconductor Foundry (Phase 4)
Scaling up production once more will allow superconductors to find their way into a wide array of products, ranging from the ordinary to ones that most people will never see in their lives. Particle accelerators, fusion plants, network interchanges, cogeneration facilities, and a wide array of other elements will be significantly improved by more widespread availability of superconductors.
(Progress 523/610: 30 resources per die) (+4 Capital Goods, +8 Energy) (-2 Logistics) (+5 Political Support) [82, 14, 48, 28]
Soon (tm)
The impacts however, are going to be felt over the course of decades rather than weeks or years however, and there are serious concerns that the program, without political interest from Parliament, especially given the collapse of the Biodiversity party, and it folding into Reclamation, that the program will effectively be abandoned. At least, until GDI stabilizes the Tiberium situation in a more permanent manner, especially given the twin hits of the doom clock, and the Mount Belaya explosion.
Okay, about this. (Reforestation)
I think we need to get as much done as we can before the politicians decide to mothball it.
It seems likely that political and public opinion is going to decide that it is no longer useful. Then it will suddenly swing back when it becomes a critical issue, and we will be hounded for not being able to pull forests out of our arse.
This sort of wide scale environmental rehabilitation is going to be cheaper and more effective the earlier it is started. The more ground we can get prepped and seeded/stabilised now will help a lot later on.
pebble bed reactors have not changed particularly much in the last decades, and many of the other components are similarly modern
Sad that we still aren't using micro-fusion here.
Refining Refits:
It looks like we might end up with two types of refineries. Our standard ones for simple materials. And then the expensive Visitor ones, when we specifically want to produce more STUs.
Old Tanks:
If they are still good, we really don't have the dice to waste on replacing things that still work.
We have air assets that don't work anymore.
We have an overstretched ZOCOM.
We have a need to deploy tons of Zone Armor.
Shala Bays:
I think we should focus a bit more. Anything we don't put into Shala is likely to appear as an option in the next round of Stations.
The Animal Husbandry bay only gives meat availability to space, which is hardly a need right now. All the other benefits can be achieved with Earth based facilities. (Or later development on Luna.)
We are also developing lab grown meat, so we aren't strictly blocking meat from the diet by not building it.
[X] Plan: Bring Life to Space
-[X] Experimental Crops Bay x2
-[X] High Efficiency Void Crops Bay x2
-[X] Species Restoration Bay x2
Also acceptable:
[x] Plan Save the Biosphere, Do Science
