We do not need this, we had 70 space left added 50 from Chicago phase 2 and subtracted 5 or 10 from tib mining so we are at 110 or 115 space left for income currently. And Chicago phase 3 will add more processing cap
Fair. Until we unlock more tiberium mining or significantly improve military confidence, and those are related problems, that's a comfortable margin of error. I'll happily swap out two dice of
Refineries for three dice on Chicago.
That, and we skipped Security Review for two turns now.
Which departments we haven't checked in a while?
The military's the biggie, but I imagine they're also the ones most aggressively vetted by agencies that don't work for us, and it's hard to see how they could fuck things up on the civilian front that much. I suspect it was just a turn that went badly. The "everyone distracted by the elections/holidays/whatever so not as much got done" explanation is as good as any.
I fully expect the Starbound to splinter in the future into separate "Space Industry is the Future" and "Fuck Earth, Flee to Space" parties.
Maybe, but probably only if we see a Starbound Party large enough to credibly swing the government around itself. Right now they need unity and their core goals are broadly compatible, to the point where if they split they'd just be two less relevant factions quibbling with each other over details.
The Hawks split over a very fundamental issue: is our love of GDI firepower more about defeating Nod
as such, or more about maintaining our fortified lifestyle in the Blue Zones and our disdain for the Yellow Zones?
The Free Market Party likewise split over a fundamental issue: Do we want to move away from planned economics because we think the planned economy isn't providing for the masses optimally, or because we want a return to the neoliberal world order that was flourishing back when GDI was formed back in the 1990s?
But "we want space industry" and "we want to flee Earth" aren't so incompatible, at least until you start seeing Starbound representatives voting against tiberium mitigation on the grounds that it's a lost cause and we should use the money to flee to space faster. Which
right now would probably be political death for the guy who did it, so the prospective "Leg It Party" wouldn't be very viable.
Surprising that Starbound went from being a minor party with 2 representatives to being a major political party. They have more representatives than the Free Market Party and a bit less than Initiative First.
Perhaps that's from the fact that the Blue Zones have shrunk for the last few turns and people want options available to them. Or maybe it's from the Moon Landing that probably took place right before the Election. Either way, it looks like Space expansion is going to be a major concern going forward.
United Yellow List isn't looking so hot. Experts predicted the party would eventually fall apart without a concrete set of ideals. Unless they can rally I don't think the future of the party will continue past the next election.
The bad news is that this means we lose a consolidated body of support.
The good news is that the most likely reason this is happening is because
Yellow Zoners are identifying with Blue Zone political factions, and vice versa. That is to say, Yellow Zoners are looking at the Blue Zone political parties that exist and saying "this is the one for me, and will look out for my interests," instead of thinking they need their own party to do that.