- Location
- Mid-Atlantic
I'm happy to squeeze in the housing refits whenever I feel like we have Infrastructure dice to spare. I just don't consider them to be a top priority activity.
We've already done so much to lower the population that's in 'low quality' housing that the vast majority of the people who live there probably have some degree of choice, or are well content to accept the location in exchange for minimal rent and good location, or something. It's not an irrelevant problem, it's still connected to quality of life, but if I had to put it on my list of priorities it'd be like #3 or #4.
And when we get a refugee wave, they're going to be in Low Quality Housing for a while whether we like it or not, because we can't build surplus HQ Housing at any useful rate in the foreseeable future.
Again, to be clear, I still want to do it and fully intend to do it by the end of the Plan. It's just not at the top of my list of things to do compared to stuff like "more forts to harden the border now that Nod's had long enough to recover that they might be capable of more meaningful raids"
Well, I'm still trying to game the numbers a bit. The Orca wingmen drones are wanted by both the Air Force and Navy, and the deployment time is such that we're under a bit more of a deadline. Naval laser refits are in a similar position 1-2 turns from now. With the Seattle frigate yard, I feel like there's a little more wiggle room in how big of a deal getting it done a turn or two faster or slower is. Unless we anticipate another major war within the next 2-3 years (and I don't), then the delays probably won't amount to much.
If we're willing to accept for a short time not being able to just keep pouring a giant river of Capital Goods into the stockpile, we can choose to do a couple more AEVAs. We'll be able to turn the river back on in a year or two, anyway, with Aberdeen and North Boston and possibly if we're lucky Nuuk Phase 4.
But that's an "if," and there's a price.
On a side note, Military isn't really a perfect candidate for an AEVA. It's nice, but not great. This is because Military has relatively few big long megaprojects, but lots and lots of little mini-projects where most of the time the +3 on a die roll just does nothing at all.
What's best for AEVA is projects where it's virtually certain that every turn we'll be spending the vast majority of our dice on projects that have rollover or that cost a thousand or more points of Progress, like Orbital, Heavy Industry, and Tiberium. Military and Light Industry, less so. Least useful AEVA, ironically, is probably Services, because we almost never get a really really big prolonged project there.
Ehh, I can see it. The two munitions projects we definitely have are Railgun Munitions and Ultralight Glide Munitions. Both are useful for Karachi. If we found the Department of Munitions, then immediately research UGM, we're going to be rocking at least 100 Progress on projects useful for Karachi. It's not my favorite thing to do this turn, but I can see the logic.
Also, I'm pretty sure that when it comes to Karachi, either it'll work or it won't. Us spending one more or less Military die a little more or less optimally just isn't gonna make much of a difference.
