There's a reason I basically leave you in peace and only ping you if I have a particularly space-happy plan you might want to vote for.I've given up reading anything related to planningOn that note uuuh, hospital bay good. We should do it.
For 2064Q1-Q3 (before Karachi) I'm thinking in terms of a three-way split focus.
There's a reason I'm talking about a three-way split. That means typically no more than 2-3 Free dice on any one category.
Looks good to me. No real complaints. Couple of questions though.
Doing this instead of Bergen due to budget I assume?
Just expressing my desire to do other stuff than this first. Not a big deal honestly, just a personal preference. Ignoring me here is totally fine.
Would it be better to research the other techs on the plan goals first? Or is this a getting ready for Karachi thing?
Overall, not a bad plan.
Well...
I support your level of ambition.
Hm. That's a fair point. And nothing that we're waiting on for UGSV is that precious. Hoverplates, maybe, but we HAVE second generation hoverplates available on a small scale basis and that's the scale that the Talons do testing and prototyping on.
Le sigh. I copied over the probabilities without copying over the altered costs in Progress points. I'll keep chasing down the petty little things like completion chance on AA dice in successive drafts, but yeah, not a big deal..
No, it's because I don't want literally everything in Light Industry that isn't a megaproject to sit idle from now until the time we complete Bergen Phase 5. Bergen Phase 4, while obviously very desirable, is neither a Plan commitment nor strictly necessary to our immediate industrial needs, since we are able to build fusion plants at a perfectly acceptable rate. At least, as long as we don't do anything reckless like stop building entirely for a turn and then panic when we have to crash-build a phase 'suddenly.'
There are people who strongly advocate Cosmetic Biosculpting, and it is very far from a useless activity. Even if we dismiss as luxury stuff like "I want cat ears," I'm pretty sure that over the course of fighting three and a half world wars, plus who knows what all else, GDI has picked up a lot of people with major cosmetic scarring that the biosculpt technology would help with.
Partly Karachi, partly that I think this is a very powerful weapon system that just in general has a lot of potential and that we've been sitting on for too long. Some things are important even if they're not Plan commitments, and frankly, I think sometimes the legislature makes us promise things more because they sound badass than because they are necessary. If I were gonna shift priority to something else, it'd be Orca Wingmen Drones Phase 2 or Seattle Frigate Yard, both of which are marked "High Priority" by a fighting service. The only other things that qualify are zrbite guns (which is too big a project and too STU-hungry to start right away) and Ground Force power armor, which might take away the dice from stealth disruptors, depending on whether its priority shifts now that we've completed the Set One factories.
Yes, but MARVs are tricky, since they use both Tiberium and Military dice, so we have to do them at a good time. I'm hoping that 2064Q1-Q3 will turn out to be a good time.
Well, we've had that before in fits and starts. It was mainly the "oh crap we're going to do the whole Karachi route through Nuke Man's territory" that had us start hammering on SADN frantically.
This is considerably more ruthless min-maxing than I'd be willing to dare, though respectable from a certain point of view. Obviously, I stepped back from Glacier Mines Stage 5 so as to have dice for other things, including completing the third inhibitor and work on Coordinated Abatement.
If it was me, I'd probably advocate shifting a die from Columbia to Shala. Shala is very much "behind schedule" compared to Columbia already, and arguably should be getting the bulk of our dice while Columbia is slow-walked to completion. Three dice is the minimum to have any chance of completion on Columbia, however remote, and personally I think that's all we should give that station this turn. Once we've rolled those three dice, it will become clear whether we want to spend 1/1+AA/2/2+AA dice next turn to finish the job.
As alluded to by my earlier post, I consider this a respectable and reasonable alternative breakdown of Military dice compared to my own, with the caveat that in my current draft plans I am choosing not to make firm assumptions about the cost of SADN Phase 4.
We don't have any information on Phase 3 Fusion plants, and are still locked to 3 dice, I believe, so no real point on putting it in.
Yeah, sorry. Fixed that too.
I was one of the people. However, we should definitely wait for the fifth phase of Alloys to finish now that it's so close. Knocking that project down to say, 270 would make me feel a lot better about slow walking it, though obviously I'd prefer a 2 dice start followed by slow walking.
Given the precedents, it is reasonable to infer that each phase of fusion reactor will have the same Progress requirement as the one before. But yes, it's realistically impossible for us to complete Phase 2+3 by rolling only three dice; the odds against it are probably something like one in a thousand to one in ten thousand, just off the top of my head.
I think Aberdeen may just have to wait until after North Boston; they're both computing projects and we're getting to the point where we really, really need to work on the chip fabber we did promise to build rather than working on the one we didn't promise to build. The alloy foundries should, when all is said and done, cut North Boston Phase 5's completion cost to something in the neighborhood of 1800 Progress, or roughly 21-22 dice, but unless we get pretty aggressive with Free dice,* that's still something in the vicinity of 4-6 turns of dedicated, focused effort from us.
I'm strongly for finishing Colombia and building the Hospital and Spaceport Bays. Possibly fine with reversing the order, but I'm undecided.I've given up reading anything related to planning
Why? We know we need Phase 5 done before we can see the next round of Stations. Why anything less than 4 dice?
Yeah. Personally, I think that giving Shala a good hard push is much more important than having a good chance of finishing Columbia Phase 5 this turn. Shala isn't realistically going to be ready until 2064Q1, with the bulk of the work being done in the coming two turns and then probably a little more of a 'tap' to get the job done. There's no rush to push Columbia through much faster than that, especially at the cost of delaying Shala.
