What about under a demand where you either do an 1800-3000 point project to fill out the arcology program, or do a 600-1200 point program to just house blue zoners. Or just do a 600 point program, and kick the yellow zoners out.
Wow. You are a skilled writer.
But do we need to do housing immediately this turn? What's the downside to waiting a turn or two while we finish the Rail Link Reconstruction first, especially since the railways are the other half of the request?
For one thing, the arcologies are future-tech complicated structures with multiple integrated systems. They need to be built from the ground up to work. We can't convert our current housing into arcology-level housing without first demolishing the current construction that's already there. And secondly, now that we're climbing out of our Consumer Goods hole the biggest personal posession people are going to want now is high-quality housing.
So, as I intended to handle it, there would be broadly three phases of simulation, each representing a broad section of capital accumulation and organizational growth. In the first phase (where you are now) markets are handled as essentially black boxes where you feed resources in and goods come out. This represents a constant churn of small companies. It is a lot of mom and pop shops or small businesses producing some goods for sale. The second phase is the financialization/politicization of the system, where you start seeing individual companies that are producing their own capital, and you can begin extracting real value in taxation. Third and finally is the actual financial simulation aspect where they start being able to do their own thing in a much more real way, and placing actual demands on your system.
As you said that you Intended to handle it that way does that mean it's now changed or is this still the system your using?
Mostly it means that you just won't get parts of it over the life cycle of the quest. Because people have been bound and determined to focus heavily on central planning rather than engaging with the grants mechanics.
Fairly spacious in the actual apartments, but the big win is that they have pretty much everything right on top of you. Libraries are just around the corner, swimming pools, bars, dance floors, theaters. You can live a very happy life never leaving the building.
For every die and every resource spent on blue zone arcologies, that same amount of dice and same amount of resources would generate about twice as much housing in yellow zone arcologies. We do not have infinite dice, nor infinite resources. Thus, by creating a luxury apartment and a windfall for a single family, we leave another family vulnerable to tiberium and NOD that could have been (relatively) safe.
