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Ok then let mw reohrase it
If in the future we do grants what grant would be better?
Attempting to Fulfill the Plan: GDI Edition
Ok then let mw reohrase it
If in the future we do grants what grant would be better?
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First: thanks for a rundown on Tacitus Lore. Second: cool, I like the CnC Wiki.
Thank you so much!
Editing that wiki seems like a fool's errand sometimes, after all, the franchise is all but dead and I don't even know if anyone actually reads this stuff. But I'm glad someone actually appreciates what I do.
Saarland dice where pairs so there was a 10R tiberium dice on it as well.
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Miaow! Break the Chains!
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Don't housing grants require a constant flow of Logistic resource to increase capacity?
Thank you. My mind is full of fuck. And it is amazing. I will be digesting this info for some time.
Isn't there info on the Tacitus having been made by Renegade!not!Scrin for the Real!Scrin and against the wishes of not!Scrin goverment and one of those Real!Scrin is Kane?
The thing is that I was meaning Kane when talking "devs shilling for the big bad" not not!scrin or Tiberium. But still, thank you amazing person you.
Also thanks for maintaining the wiki.
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I mean the edits that can be made will be exhausted at some point, without new material being produced, but for older franchises especially having a centralized archive for the lore is pretty nice. So it is appreciated.
They do, in addition to -RPT. Additionally, they aren't creating arcology quality Tib-hardened housing. Better to just build arcologies.
I'd rather we avoid the housing grants entirely. Arcology (arcologies? arcologi?) are more efficient, better defended, better insulated against Tib and honestly seem more future proof and the better direction. Using the planned ME sequel quest; all the structures you see in the game, wether in space or planet side, are more in line with an arcology than anything close to any sort of suburb.
If we start getting huge amounts of yellow zone refugees to the point where our housing surplus is overwhelmed and something is drawing our dice and resources the housing grant can have their uses.
As for consumer goods grants I think those are a good idea since we'll be more cash strapped after the next budget re-allocation and being able to offload fancy clothes, furniture, and tooth brushes to to coops let's us keep our focus on the military and yellow zone outreach.
As for consumer goods grants I think those are a good idea since we'll be more cash strapped after the next budget re-allocation and being able to offload fancy clothes, furniture, and tooth brushes to to coops let's us keep our focus on the military and yellow zone outreach.
Dmol8
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Well then the error is in the plan having it written as only one dice. Thanks for pointing that out.
I'm not opposed to doing LI grants once we see how the cooperative and union actions shake out, the consumer good trickle is useful enough to have depending on the specifics of what it entails and how our budget looks.
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Is this based on how those two actions could modify the nature of the grants?
Yeah between strategic planning, a cooperatives focus, and empowered unions I think the targeting of the grants will shift enough that it's less "hello private capitalist, here are public funds for you to generate private profit with" and more towards a decentralized and responsive way to fill all the little consumer niches that a full die's worth of state funding is too unwieldy for. The state can keep producing your baseline dirt cheap utilitarian clothing and bulk computer chips and industrial hardware but if small private cooperatives want to start custom assembling gaming computers or making printed t-shirts or whatever else is below our level of abstraction that's a worthwhile investment in the civilian economy.
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240R. We took the budget option to have 265R, which then had 25R subtracted for our Grant and Forgotten spending.
Specifically, the vote tally eats identical lines. If you go to the plan vote itself, the plan does Saarland twice. (And so does spend all 240R.)
To be fair to the character Kane is terrifyingly good at espionage.
Furthermore as to why he would want Granger around: if Kane has decided to use the TCN plan someone will need to build it. Just look at that considerate man that is rebuilding industry, networking with yellow zones, buying enough time with tiberuim management to make construction viable, and last but not least willing to work with ex-nod forces. That sound like grounds for jolly cooperation when things start getting dicey and he needs to convince them to help build his ascension assisting device.
Granger is doing exactly what he wants, why ruin a good thing?
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If i was more talented writting i would do a buisness quest omake
But i suck at grammar
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Miaow! Break the Chains!
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Do you have an idea? I could try to write it this or next weekend?
KnightDisciple
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Don't forget, laying a foundation of *working with NOD*. Both the splinter group he absorbed in, and the precedent set out near Mecca.
KnightDisciple
Love God. Do Right. Fear No Man.
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[X] Plan Sister Cities and Air Power Alt Military
[X] Plan Red Zone Lines + Predators + Unions
[X] Plan Red Zone Lines + Predators + Unions
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The Scrin can control gravity just as well as you can, and in fact better because they invented the drive technology you're pirating. I'm not saying it can't be tried in theory if you can build a big and powerful enough Engine of Yeet, mind you... But I don't really expect it to work. Also there is some risk of failing and handing Nod a free giant gravity drive powerful enough to accelerate massive structures into space, and I'm sure they can come up with something screwy to do with that.
Not the worst idea, but good luck identifying the Nod operatives and mindwhammying them enough to make them reliable agents without the Noddies inside the tower figuring out what's going on. Personnel access to Threshold-19 must be very tightly evaluated.
What if they have a mechanism that lets them beam the supplies and operatives in and out without making the tower vulnerable? It would be a logical thing for the Scrin to build into the design, because one of the main reasons the tower is so damn invulnerable, it seems, is because it's designed to ride out literally any conceivable forces or chaos on the planetary surface and still be able to function. Which means that anything it needs should probably be something it can get without dephasing and opening the front door, when for all the designers know the tower might need to open the front door in the middle of, say, a tiberium volcano erupting like a continously exploding nuclear detonation or some similarly horrific phenomena.
The Scrin have good teleporters; they'd want to use them here.
Yeah. Remember that the whole problem here is that we want the Tacitus and we suspect it's inside.
There is an argument for housing grants: It would let us resolve the housing quality problem while spending WAY fewer total dice on the problem.
The downsides are that we'd still end up having to spend the resources, we'd still have to spend SOME dice (quite a few of them) on the necessary Logistics support projects, and that the resulting housing wouldn't be in giant tightly bunkered-up skyscrapers like a lot of people here want.
But it's a legitimate argument in the normal sense of the word- that is to say, it does something useful, just with downsides we'd probably prefer to avoid.
Arcologies.
I should note that the reason you mostly see giant self-contained buildings in Mass Effect are as follows:
1) You spend a disproportionate amount of time on marginally habitable planets and space stations where living in a giant self-contained structure is necessary. Much of the galactic population lives on garden worlds, by contrast. I could do a more detailed rundown when I have time.
2) A significant fraction of the time you spend on garden worlds, you spend in the middle of a city.
3) As a Watsonian explanation, the three main Mass Effect games are a series of third person shooters dating back to the timeframe 2007-2012. They are not "wide open world" games in which large built-up communities such as suburbs can be easily inserted. I suspect that keeping the game engine requirements manageable probably required that most maps be either indoor areas, built-up areas with limited lines of sight, or mostly empty wilderness with few or no actual features beyond the ground itself which is just built up out of a single layer of big textured polygons.
Again, we have an ongoing problem in that we have plenty of housing, but much of it is rather crappy cramped housing in hastily constructed high-rise apartments built right after Tib War III to house the jillions of refugees created by the war. There's physical space for everyone to have a place to sleep, but a lot of them are sleeping in a glorified broom closet and they don't like it.
It should be pointed out that a grant is arguably WORSE if we're cash-strapped, because it's a continuous thing that eats -15 RpT whether we have plenty of spare income or not.
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Then my next idea to get into the tower is thus , the guys getting teleported in and out of the tower need to have some way of getting into contact with it so that someone teleports them in either that or some way to remote access the teleportation array these would the vulnerabilities we can exploit to get inside the tower , we find a Nod operative with the authorization codes to get teleported into the tower and use those to get our commandos inside to clear a way for our troops or secure what ever device used to open a portal to march an army into the tower
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This is too neat. So there must be a catch.
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Probably based on how buisness are founded and done currently
Begin as a small private owned buisness but as it grows it further decentralizes
Probably a tech based buisness given we recently did video game options demand for harware and software of compiters should be on the rise
Specially for buisness
>finances software
Tho you gotta remember that we get income from taxing the market (we should get taxes this turn or next one)
So while it would be a passive cost of -15rpt that could be outweigthed by taxes gains on resources
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The main problem is that until and unless we know what things are like inside the tower, and what the security precautions on the teleportation are, this isn't so much a "plan" as it is a "speculative hope."
I'm not saying the thing cannot be done in principle, but in practice it'd be almost certain to fail without far, far more information than we possess or can reasonably infer from what we DO know.
The taxes go to GDI's overall budget and we only get a percentage of them. So unless the return on investment of those grants is hilarious, we're still losing more resources than we're getting back, at least in the medium term.