Two things I will note here: we are now at the point where we get a 94% success chance on Security Reviews with 1 die, which I think is probably sufficient, and secondly we will be wanting to do recruitment.
Funny thing is, Erewhorn has a 95% chance to finish Chicago Phase 4 off. (At 529/550, it's only 6 progress off an omake finish.) If we have enough R to squeeze doing that in, we could effectively get an extra Heavy Industries die that way.
inb4 we roll a nat 100 on that, Erewhon redecorates all the housing in Chicago - it's a masterpiece of art, but nobody wants to live there because of all the trompe l'oeil paintings making them think they're living in non-Euclidean spaces.
We don't need it. It would probably help insofar as it would mean +Logistics, but we are not cripplingly dependent on having railways go everywhere that we want to set up operations.
I hope so, but I really do want to make sure the military is prepared. By the time we do Karachi, Nod will at least have begun to recuperate from its losses in the Regency War, so I want to make sure we're ready for anything that pops up- with SADN and the first wave of power armor factories in place, and with at least Phase 1 of the Orca/Hammerhead wingman drones deployed so that our escort carriers are working at full capacity. I'd love to squeeze in the naval laser refits but that may be a bridge too far.
[grunts]
he get to enjoy counting trash instead
I am pretty sure Erewhon would have enjoyed the bean-counting job more if it had involved getting to zap the beans repeatedly with laser cannons after they had been counted.
MRASP isn't a platform IMO, well. Its not a platform that's going to have other tech installed into it. MRASP is more or less a single minded project to miniaturize and stuff the capability of a base into a mobile platform. Plus MRAsP is the first true prototype of this kind of thing. Its not going to benefit from other Talons tech unless those are industrial based.
Given that the current set of Plan commitments has only a moderate amount for us to do in Light Industry (normally an excellent source of Consoom), mandates only one other project in Agriculture (our second-best source of Consoom), and has negligible requirements in Services (our third-best source of Consoom), I think it's safe to say that we've got this.
You raise a very good point.
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| RZ Harvesting and Glacier Mines | MARVs, Inhibitors, and Vein Mines | |
| Dice Cost | 61 Dice | 59 Dice |
| Income | 742.5 RpT | 750 RpT |
| RZ Mitigation | 21 RZ Mitigation | 16 RZ Mitigation |
| YZ Mitigation | 20 YZ Mitigation | |
| Energy | 19 Energy | 4 Energy |
| Logistics | -20 Logistics | |
| Capital Goods | -20 Capital Goods |
You've got me coming around on the merits of trying to do the Orbital AEVA project possibly, though I'm considering other possibilities and how to balance the dice invested in the station bay and the shuttle yard. Even in best-case scenarios, it's fairly unlikely that we complete both projects in 2062Q1; if we're accepting the loss of an Orbital die to boot up the AEVA, the best thing to do might be to balance the dice such that both projects get at least a minimal chance of completion, so that we can be assured of finishing both with only 1-2 dice each next turn in 2062Q2.Alright, based on input, have a draft plan for upping our orbitals through the power of AEVA.
-[] Heavy Industry (4/4 Dice, +33 bonus, 75 R)
--[] Advanced Alloys Development 56/120 (1 die * 15 R = 15R)
--[] Improved Continuous Cycle Fusion Development 0/120 (2 dice * 20R = 40R)
--[] Microfusion Cell Development 0/60 (1 die * 20R = 20R)
-[] Tiberium (7 Dice + 7 Free Dice, +43 bonus, 345 R)
--[] Tiberium Vein Mines (Stage 2) (5/195) (5 dice * 20R = 100R)
--[] Red Zone Border Offensives (Stage 2) (101/250) (5 dice * 25R = 125R)
--[] Deep Red Zone Tiberium Glacier Mining (Stage 1) (0/250) (4 dice * 30R = 120R)
-[] Military (8/8 dice, +30 bonus, 95 R)
--[] GD-3 Rifle Development (0/30) (1 die * 10R = 10R)
--[] Ground Forces Zone Armor (Set 1)
---[] New Sevastopol (0/180) (2 dice * 20R = 40R)
--[ ] Ferro Aluminum Armor Refits (0/350) (3 dice * 5R = 15R)
--[ ] Buckler Shield Development (0/100) (1 dice * 20R = 20R)
--[ ] Infantry Recon Support Drone Development (0/40)(1 dice * 10R = 10R)
-[] Bureaucracy (4 Dice, +28 bonus)
--[] Recruitment (3 dice+Erewhon)
--[] Security Review (1 dice)
---[] Agriculture
The usual reminder that everything is subject to change until we get the update applies
It's also notable that if we time it right, we can do a big solid surge of overflow and build the RZ-3 hubs and the RZ-1S hub all in rapid succession, because with the right sequencing, each hub overflows to the next one as they are closer to each other than to any other competing hub.
This reminds me heavily of the analysis I did during back in 2058 about how we'd hit the RpT income increase target that time.
Yeah, so let's think about the narrative.
Ehh, let's just say I'm thinking pretty hard about exact dice breakdown. It's complicated what to roll on each. Not an issue where I'm going to be pressing people with different opinions.
But why would that make sense? We should be keeping up some kind of tempo on ZA factories, because we need to both fill the holes in our coverage and expand so that we can continue covering all these new Red Zone mining projects. Like, you argue trading out New Sevastopol and Microfusion can free up more space for glacier mines, but we need ZOCOM freed up to provide backup for those operations, and the longer it takes to deploy Ground Forces their Zone Armour the longer elements of ZOCOM have to deal with splitting their focus. The more Zone Armour factories we can bring online quickly, the sooner ZOCOM can trade off lower-priority missions with Ground Forces and consolidate their higher-priority ones, so we're less likely to run into a sudden crunch of them saying they cannot sustain the operations we need them to. Now yes, we should have the first Ground Forces ZA groups coming out of New York by the end of this turn (assuming a six month period for construction and training), but the next won't be coming for a while - the London facility may start contributing the quarter after New York per its completing, or it may well take another quarter due to the Nat 1; I want to keep the delay on the next wave at no more than a quarter if at all possible, and a 47 percent chance gives us a coinflip chance of no delay at all.
| RZ Harvesting and Glacier Mines | MARVs, Inhibitors, and Vein Mines | Combo of Combos 0 Glacier Mines | Combo of Combos 1 Glacier Mine | Combo of Combos 2 Glacier Mines | Combo of Combos 3 Glacier Mines | |
| Dice Cost | 61 Dice | 59 Dice | 58 Dice | 59 Dice | 59 Dice | 58 Dice |
| Income | 742.5 RpT | 750 RpT | 742.5 RpT | 750 RpT | 757.5 RpT | 740 RpT |
| RZ Mitigation | 21 RZ Mitigation | 14 RZ Mitigation | 14 RZ Mitigation | 14 RZ Mitigation | 14 RZ Mitigation | 15 RZ Mitigation |
| YZ Mitigation | 20 YZ Mitigation | 20 YZ Mitigation | 18 YZ Mitigation | 16 YZ Mitigation | 14 YZ Mitigation | |
| Energy | 19 Energy | 4 Energy | 4 Energy | 6 Energy | 8 Energy | 7 Energy |
| Logistics | -20 Logistics | |||||
| Capital Goods | -20 Capital Goods | -20 Capital Goods | -18 Capital Goods | -16 Capital Goods | -14 Capital Goods |
