- Location
- Mid-Atlantic
There's no firm consensus, I think.
However, we have considerable incentive to use our Infrastructure dice for 'boring' projects that increase Housing and Logistics right now. We're burning through Housing at -10 per turn for the refugees and we have no idea when that will stop because we have like 100,000,000 people to house. And our most efficient means of creating Housing, along with one of our favorite means of creating Food, cost Logistics.
We're currently braced for another 30 'units' of Logistics over the course of this year. At current rates, that means we need +30 Housing and +15 Food. Which means five phases of apartments, which means -10 Logistics over the course of the year. And while to some extent we can hope to claw back some Logistics from the war effort winding down and hopefully many of the Nod raiders pulling in their horns... Well, we should do some +Logistics projects.
So there's plenty of reasons to want to use Infrastructure dice for 'normal' things that it excels at (Housing and Logistics) rather than doing a small megaproject at 550 Progress that gives us a surge of Capital Goods (which are nice, but not something we need), Consumer Goods (ditto), and refining cap (which we need, but can easily get with Tiberium dice, which we have plenty of and aren't required to spend on anything that's going to cause immediate problems if we don't get it).
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Had a thought.
@Ithillid , our actual population is increasing significantly. And it's clear that now that apartment phases cost -2 Logistics, new housing is being constructed on the outskirts of existing Blue Zone cities to house everyone. Back during the First Plan there was a systematic effort to reconstruct urban mass transit. Now that some of these cities are actually growing, will we see a specifically targeted Urban Metros Phase 4 action to expand mass transit links within and around the cities themselves? It seems the obvious thing to do, because it would tend to directly offset the -Logistics costs of the apartment phases by creating new light rail, subway, and bus connections to tie those far-flung apartment complexes back into the urban areas they surround.
The "single point vulnerability" aspect of Chicago is definitely something we should be concerned about until the SADN rollout covers those areas, yes. While we've largely pushed Gideon's forces out of easy striking range of the city, he could still pop it with a nuclear cruise missile if we wanted to put in the effort.
My priority in this plan draft is to get as many actual Plan goals out of the way as possible, as quickly as possible, in a way that makes it at least plausible to have all Plan goals finished by the end of Q3, barring the ones likely to be the thorniest.
This plan sets us up to be in a better position to have a Bogatyr die in Q3 or Q4. Earlier iterations of my 2061Q2 plan draft had a Bogatyr die, but it was subsequently removed. I have my reasons. If I had to pick a die to sacrifice, it'd be one of the OSRCT dice, one of the Seattle dice (I'd be loath to do that), or the second New York die (which may prove redundant and unnecessary depending on the outcome of the Natural 1, or may not).
