Infrastructure (5 dice)
[ ] Tidal Power Plants (Phase 2)
Phase 2 of the Tidal Power Plants is looking at major tidal power plants, such as the Penzin Bay Facility. These massive installations will provide almost as much energy as a standard nuclear power plant in many cases, although unlike those nuclear plants, these are geographically limited.
(progress 0/450: 10 resources per die) (++++ Energy)
[ ] Blue Zone Arcologies (Phase 2)
Investing in constructing new arcologies and not just repairing existing structures, reflects a major and ongoing investment in providing not only livable environments but genuinely pleasant ones. These facilities are not just about comfort however. If needed, these are the hardest structures politically feasible to build in the blue zones, and the most resistant to the spread of Tiberium.
(Progress 3/600: 15 Resources per Die) (++++ Housing, +++ Consumer Goods, -- Energy)
[ ] Yellow Zone Fortress Towns (Phase 3)
With the terminus cities protected, and much of the near Yellow Zone at least supported by these towns, future projects lay clusters of fortresses along coastal positions, much like Africa saw in the first phase of colonization. However, without substantially more investment into providing shells, or diversifying the weapons load of the Fortress towns, these are likely to be effectively indefensible.
(Progress 25/200: 20 Resources Per Die) (+++ Housing) (Supports Yellow Zone Intensification)
[ ] Yellow Zone Arcologies (Phase 1)
While GDI cannot at this time ensure that any of the Yellow Zone cities are secure, an arcology is a much easier problem. An all in one solution, offering housing, work, healthcare and shopping in a single building. Arcologies were first proposed in the late 20th century as an exercise in ideas. The 21st brought it into fruition as a way of living as the world outside turned hostile. The first wave is intended as housing for high value targets, a place to hold them, and, if need be, evacuate them in a single convoy. Highly popular among Yellow List, unpopular with Initiative First.
(Progress 0/170: 15 resources per die) (+++ Housing)
[ ] Rail Link Reconstruction (Phase 2)
With the primary rail links rebuilt, further effort can go to more internal and secondary lines. While connecting the blue zones was the largest potential source of logistical efficiency, more local lines such as the Japanese, Australian, or Chilean longitudinal lines will connect blue zone cities to each other, and rail spurs will provide additional connection points for Yellow Zone projects.
(Progress 40/200: 15 Resources per die) (++ Logistics)
[ ] Blue Zone Residential Construction (Phase 3)
The further development of high density residential is further out from the city centers, and many of the jobs. While still by far the most efficient use of resources in terms of housing people, the design is seeing increasing other costs, primarily in the logistics strain that housing, feeding, and moving people in a reasonable amount of time across increasingly long commutes creates.
(Progress 8/180: 10 resources per die) (- Labor, - Logistics, ++++ Housing)
[ ] Blue Zone Duplex Row Housing (Phase 2)
With initial row house development completed, further phases are well defined residential areas. Often known as bedroom communities, these provide a higher quality of life, although they do begin to substantially strain the transport links, as most of the workers have to commute into the cities in order to do their jobs.
(Progress 23/180: 10 resources per die) (+++ Housing, -- Logistics)
[ ] Integrated Cargo System
GDI has done a number of patchwork programs, ranging from civilian shipbuilding to rail, road and aircraft networks. However, a full integrated cargo system will bring previously unimaginable efficiencies to the cargo system. A combined system of shipping ports, rail lines, and aircraft can deliver anything, anywhere in the world with reasonable speed. While working within the political and physical realities of the post Third Tiberium War world means that it cannot work on the same efficiencies as the cargo systems of the late 20th century, it is as close as it is practical to get barring revolutionary new technologies.
(progress 0/800: 15 resource per die) (+++++ Logistics, -- Labor, -- Energy, -- Capital Goods)
[ ] Chicago Planned City (Phase 2)
The first step in preparing for the city's eventual extent is to establish the core of its industrial capability, Tiberium Processing. Using this, local operations can be marginally rerouted, feeding into the city, rather than needing to be shipped across the Appalachians.
(Progress 43/160: 20 resources per die) (+ Housing, --- Labor, - Logistics, - Energy) (Can spend mixed Tiberium and Infrastructure dice, at least 1 die must be Tiberium) (+50 Tiberium Processing Capacity)
[ ] Karachi Planned City (Phase 1)
Formerly the largest city in Pakistan, Karachi is a prime location for being the Himalayan Blue Zone's primary connection to the outside world. Rather than relying on exposed train lines towards the Russian and Korean Blue Zones, Karachi would serve as a logistics hub, with a much shorter connecting line to the Himalayas, and a port complex. That port complex will service ships running to the Arabian, Australian, and New Zealand Blue Zones, improving connectivity and acting as a forward base towards securing the northern parts of India.
(Progress 0/80: 20 resources per die) (--- Labor) (Can spend mixed Tiberium and Infrastructure dice, at least 1 die must be Tiberium)
[ ] Civilian Air Travel
With the C-35 and Carryall serving many of GDI's needs there is enough logistical slack to begin creating regular flights between major cities. This will be both politically popular and create some effective consumer goods through tourism.
(Progress 0/250: 15 Resources per die) (+++ ++ Consumer Goods, --- Logistics) (5 Political Support for completion)
[ ] Housing Enterprise Investment Grants
Housing is something that is often best handled under state direction, both to ensure that sufficient housing is built, and to prevent the growth of a "homeowner" class that is willing to create social harm in order to grow the value of their homes. However, with the Initiative's efforts proving insufficient to provide enough housing, one potential option is to open a series of investment grants into private construction cooperatives. While they will be more expensive than doing it ourselves, they are also substantially easier to administer. (15 resources per turn) (+ Housing per turn)
