Well we could go 2 on Super MARV and then the rest on mil projects but getting a peek at the YZ version of Super MARV would be nice and something we can probably toss one dice at a turn for an extra boost. And how did overfill from a glacier supporting RZ end up away from the glacier?
Where are you getting this from? The overflow is from RZ6 South which would make the YZ in South America, if it had been RZ6 North than that would be directed to Central America. And the text says the new hub is in Columbia not Central America. In addition finishing the YZ hub is going to add more refugees coming into the GDI and out of NOD control. So calling it a Central American hub is wrong, it is a South American hub and one that will secure our control of the region from NOD.
Look at where I described it. It is right at the base of Mesoamerica. aimed north towards Panama and Mexico.
You said columbia, which is still south america. Central america and mexico should have another hub further north. Also why is the overflow from South at the north end?
Again, I'm only even considering doing a Yellow Zone MARV hub because it's specifically Chicago, and having MARVs there will help secure facilities that are in their own right generating income.
Honestly Venus is the one place with an environment so crappy and appalling I think tiberium might not even be able to survive there.
A hub in Colombia would sort of help with the Amazon glacier mines by securing their flank.
Fair point. I'm pretty sure the military will be comfier with the Yellow Zone harvesting option, because it doesn't involve exposing ourselves as deeply. On the other hand, the Red Zone containment option is more lucrative and generally cost-effective.
The only reason I'm even thinking of building a yellow zone MARV hub is because we can base MARVs specifically right around Chicago, which seems like an obvious synergy since it assists both in the military security of Chicago (a nontrivial concern given the state of the military) and in the actual tiberium harvesting and mitigation.
I don't actually disagree here; you make a good point.
The resource thing may change; if we complete something that meaningfully increases our tiberium refining cap, we'll want to fill that up quick-like. And it sure would be nice to have an average of more than about 12.5 Resources/die to allocate, because we won't always be able to stick to the most attractive projects in each field including a lot of 10 R/die stuff that makes things cheap.
Hm. A good point. Which red zone is that, by the way?
Geography time. Colombia is directly south of Panama, which is the southern end of Central America. There's actually a lot of territory, much of it very rugged, between there and northern Mexico.
Also am I reading it right that Yellow Hubs help bring more population under our control or were the refugees coming from the RZ hubs finishing?
I know Colombia is where SA connects to CA but that means even if it extends into CA it is not a CA hub but a Northern SA hub, more so since Panama is has quite a bit of mountains that would put a limit on how far a Colombia hub can spread into CA
Yellow Hubs will. Generally projects with the YZ tag in Infra, Military, and Tiberium fields helps bring more refugee waves in. Because all of those at this point are generally pushing out from the relatively narrow band you have now, towards giving NOD forces bad days and securing the civilian populations of those areas.
I like this, RZ, YZ and BZ hubs each filling a slightly different purposes beyond adding places to base Super MARVs for income and mitigation.
A R&D dice gets to 120 if a 100 is rolled so two dice on Ion Drive Module Development would work better here as deploying the C-Sat requires Ion drives.
[grunts]
Effectively impossible. Even the smallest of the continental Red Zones is just too big for you to eliminate.
Depends on how it is going. The sooner you start, the more organized and planned it will be. For example, if you are starting before the end of the plan in a substantial manner, you will be likely launching primarily from your holdings in places like Duqm, the West African Blue Zone, or Colombo. Basically bringing people in on ships or aircraft. The later/more desperate the situation is, (although the most desperate options have become quite unlikely) the less planned the evacuation will be, with launches coming in blocks from the blue zones.
Okay, that is an aggressive Consumer Goods turn; much like @Vehrec 's plan last turn I have to respect it for knowing what it wants and pursuing that ruthlessly. I do have some concerns...
I'm not especially thrilled to be leaving an infrastructure die de-activated. It may not be possible to dig up the resources, of course...
High risk of delaying our fusion power applications by another quarter, not something I'm thrilled about, though I understand why you're doing it because you need to shake loose the Heavy Industry dice to be more confident of getting the power budget thing than I would be.
Note that one potential drawback of this plan is a ~4.5% risk of falling into Capital Goods deficit if Yellow Zone Light Industrial Sectors completes and Bulk Plastics does not. My plan spends more on Chemical Precursors for precisely this reason, to make sure that we're not in danger of a Capital Goods shortfall when we finish the Yellow Zone factories next quarter.
I assume you're not planning on working on Chicago?
I recommend Orbital Cleanup since it's generally resource-neutral in the long run.
Ahh, I see. Yeah, I can understand why you're doing this. Me, I have aspirations of completing Durable Goods Libraries in Q4 and figured to put a dent in that, since realistically Fashion Development won't finish this turn.
As others have pointed out, this gives us an unsatisfactory turn for progress on the MARVs. High risk of not completing our unfinished fleet in the Amazon Red Zone, and the MARV hub we complete is in a suboptimal position, since it does not maximize either income (that would be a Red Zone hub) or security benefits (that would be nearer to Chicago).
To be fair, you have the resources here to do a lot of the things you haven't budgeted for (e.g. that fifth infrastructure die).
I acknowledge that your plan has a very good chance of filling us up on Energy, but the downside is, um. That "total possible" reflects a lot of stuff that is far from certain to succeed. A more realistic expectation value for your Consumer Goods output is...
The problem is that this is a chicken-and-egg paradox. The military is spread thin, so needing to deploy like a million soldiers to defend a new planned city in the middle of a Yellow Zone where Nod is already strong makes it hard for them to hold on. Eventually it would pay off in the long run, I'm sure, but not in the short run.
Maybe. On the other hand, they're resource-intensive, and the first phase of the cities isn't really useful unless we intend to follow through on the following phases, which probably cost at least -Energy and maybe other things.
