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- Arizona
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[X] Plan Matters of Faith and holding India hostage
Semper Ad Meliora (Code Geass/Britannian Royalty Quest)
- Thread starter Slayer Anderson
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Resonant
Procrastinator Supreme
Er, no. They want to coerce us into leaving them alone either by paying another group to hound/distract us, OR hold us hostage to impress their demands, OR if all that proves non-viable then simply... surrendering to Lelouch and hope they can get by since their operations shouldn't intrude too much on Lulu's pragmatism. Not all 3 options combined, although that would be a funny scenario to contemplate
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Brightflame
Lord of the Dance
- Location
- Inkopolis
Er, no. They want to coerce us into leaving them alone either by either paying another group to hound/distract us, OR hold us hostage to impress their demands, OR if all that proves non-viable then simply... surrendering to Lelouch and hope they can get by since their operations shouldn't intrude too much on Lulu's pragmatism. Not all 3 options combined, although that would be a funny scenario to contemplate
Ah, that makes alot more sense. Thank you.
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[X] Plan Matters of Faith and holding India hostage
[X] Plan Matters of Faith and holding India hostage
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[X] Plan Matters of Faith and holding India hostage
ThatGuyWithIdeas
Treize died for our sins
- Location
- Romania
Depending on how things go in our Chinese campaign, then we may be better off taking the promised Area 8 action from the personal section. The biggest reward (that we are certain of) from the Diplomacy version of the Area 8 action is shares in the Crown, which, if we do well in the China campaign, we will be able to buy the entirety of the Crowns out through Tianzi, which lessens the importance of the action.
@Slayer Anderson This is mostly a proposal for next turn.
I don't think I am the only one that was confused why See a Girl About a Robot was still around (even if it cost half as much and had a DC lowered by 15 points) when Milly moved her residence to our island. That action was in addition to helping with Gawain's DC a potential path to recruiting Milly since we wanted her for her expertise (which included setting up facilities for our future KMF and space development projects). It was reasonable as she still needed to get her staff so any such projects wouldn't be under Stewardship yet as her specialty was disabled.
But she recruited her staff this turn. And Milly in addition to her duties in setting up infrastructure and her projects will be responsible for coordinating supplies for all other departments like the military and sciences (there might be some interesting line items for the psionic department that cause raised eyebrows).
So when Madison puts forward a proposal for constructing a very expensive and high DC facility for prototyping aircraft when we have Milly around it is rather strange. The high DC might be both because the Steiner Konzern would be opposing it with some regulatory roadblocks and Madison nor really having experience with setting up such large facilities.
Stewardship was often used for constructing facilities in other departments (the base, expanded port facilities, watchtowers for Martial and Lelouch's Temple/Workshop for Piety).
So with Milly being fully read in on what is going on and what is available on the island (including the Gawain and our plans to reverse engineer it). I wouldn't be surprised if Milly took over the construction project of the aircraft prototyping bay if we decide to sell our first engine design. It could have a lower DC but maybe a higher cost because for example Milly ties it into airfield expansion (since we will most likely want longer airstrips and more hangars and airstrips for our airforce expansion).
As for the KMF she might have a request from Jeanne for KMF training grounds and decides to help with Gawain while playing to our need to keep things secret offering to create a KMF design workshop combined with test/training area and hiding the development team as maintenance technicians in the paperwork. It could be a multiple DC project. With lowest we get a KMF bay and testing/training area that allows for designing our own KMF and offers bonuses to reverse engineering KMF but we failed to hide the purpose so other corporations know we are doing something with KMF design on our island. Middle DC manages to hide the design purpose. Highest being a bonus to KMF training due to Milly inviting Marianne to help design the testing/training area and might even give a SL increase to Milly due to social interactions with Lelouch's mother who dragged Lelouch and Nunnally to help.
Basically I think constructing the larger labs should be under Stewardship while design projects should be under Learning. Of course if we pay for the construction and maintenance of those facilities we would get the rewards for the Gawain reverse engineering project on the same level as if we done it without the Ashford help. In short a larger investment giving a larger return.
And this isn't just because we have so many interesting Diplomacy/Learning options to squeeze into 2 choices while we have 3 choices in Stewardship for some time.
I don't think I am the only one that was confused why See a Girl About a Robot was still around (even if it cost half as much and had a DC lowered by 15 points) when Milly moved her residence to our island. That action was in addition to helping with Gawain's DC a potential path to recruiting Milly since we wanted her for her expertise (which included setting up facilities for our future KMF and space development projects). It was reasonable as she still needed to get her staff so any such projects wouldn't be under Stewardship yet as her specialty was disabled.
But she recruited her staff this turn. And Milly in addition to her duties in setting up infrastructure and her projects will be responsible for coordinating supplies for all other departments like the military and sciences (there might be some interesting line items for the psionic department that cause raised eyebrows).
So when Madison puts forward a proposal for constructing a very expensive and high DC facility for prototyping aircraft when we have Milly around it is rather strange. The high DC might be both because the Steiner Konzern would be opposing it with some regulatory roadblocks and Madison nor really having experience with setting up such large facilities.
Stewardship was often used for constructing facilities in other departments (the base, expanded port facilities, watchtowers for Martial and Lelouch's Temple/Workshop for Piety).
So with Milly being fully read in on what is going on and what is available on the island (including the Gawain and our plans to reverse engineer it). I wouldn't be surprised if Milly took over the construction project of the aircraft prototyping bay if we decide to sell our first engine design. It could have a lower DC but maybe a higher cost because for example Milly ties it into airfield expansion (since we will most likely want longer airstrips and more hangars and airstrips for our airforce expansion).
As for the KMF she might have a request from Jeanne for KMF training grounds and decides to help with Gawain while playing to our need to keep things secret offering to create a KMF design workshop combined with test/training area and hiding the development team as maintenance technicians in the paperwork. It could be a multiple DC project. With lowest we get a KMF bay and testing/training area that allows for designing our own KMF and offers bonuses to reverse engineering KMF but we failed to hide the purpose so other corporations know we are doing something with KMF design on our island. Middle DC manages to hide the design purpose. Highest being a bonus to KMF training due to Milly inviting Marianne to help design the testing/training area and might even give a SL increase to Milly due to social interactions with Lelouch's mother who dragged Lelouch and Nunnally to help.
Basically I think constructing the larger labs should be under Stewardship while design projects should be under Learning. Of course if we pay for the construction and maintenance of those facilities we would get the rewards for the Gawain reverse engineering project on the same level as if we done it without the Ashford help. In short a larger investment giving a larger return.
And this isn't just because we have so many interesting Diplomacy/Learning options to squeeze into 2 choices while we have 3 choices in Stewardship for some time.
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A personal action is too valuable to spend on it in my opinion. I feel like SL being as game changing as it is, and the importance of developing a Lihua and Xingke's SL's in the aftermath of the Civil war, as well as being a father to Lelouch's daughter to please both Sayako and Euphemia(and not be a neglectful father) we won't have one spare for it. If we win this, whatever we get from visiting 8 is small potato's anyways, but Personal actions are essential to building up beneficial relationships to waste on someone who was always going to be our enemy in the event we start taking Australia for ourselves. Frankly I'm rather in favor of just ignoring that promise. Prince Lelouch had time to go galavanting around area 8 for a share of the crowns. Emperor Consert Lelouch has more pressing matters to consider.
What is the viceroy going to do? provoke OSI into assassinating him by threatening war? Not likely. Some times priorities change and old decisions are rendered bad by new developments. No ones going to side with the lazy viceroy over Lelouch anyway, so playing that game isn't as essential, especially since Emperor Consort Lelouch would have the backing to begin properly ousting the Pirate groups if this succeeds, some of which 8 would rather keep around. Seems like things will go south regardless.
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- Location
- Pennsylvania
[X] Plan Zrayz
-[X] Shadow Administration
-[X] Teaching the Trade
-[X] Animal Testing
-[X] Enhanced Recruitment
-[X] Weapons of Faith
Reasons for my plan: I want that third intrigue option dammit and we need Shadow Admin to do that, given there's a high probability our psionic agents will be out in the field they run the risk of getting killed off so we need a way to replace losses, Animal testing is needed if we want to get started with psi-tech safely, healers don't just heal people they are also VERY useful when you need to perform Enhanced Interrogation on someone, and weapons of faith because this is our last chance to look at the OSI blades before we have to give them back.
-[X] Shadow Administration
-[X] Teaching the Trade
-[X] Animal Testing
-[X] Enhanced Recruitment
-[X] Weapons of Faith
Reasons for my plan: I want that third intrigue option dammit and we need Shadow Admin to do that, given there's a high probability our psionic agents will be out in the field they run the risk of getting killed off so we need a way to replace losses, Animal testing is needed if we want to get started with psi-tech safely, healers don't just heal people they are also VERY useful when you need to perform Enhanced Interrogation on someone, and weapons of faith because this is our last chance to look at the OSI blades before we have to give them back.
I would agree that our Personal actions are to valuable to simply spend them on the promise, but we should wait until we see what the Personal Action in Area 8 would bring. It could be a vacation with our advisors or lovers which raise our SL with several of them while fullfilling both our promises to the governor and Euphemia.
Also our diplomacy actions in area 8 could change into something better, which would happen if the Chinese Civil War ends quickly enough and Lihua buys the Rest of the crowns for us
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- barking
[X] Plan Zrayz
I think we should bring up our guy friends SL. They're at what 4 while all female relationships are 6 and up.
Edit: Milly being the only exception to the rule. Considering she just came. That's sad that Gino and Kenshin are equal to her.
Edit: Milly being the only exception to the rule. Considering she just came. That's sad that Gino and Kenshin are equal to her.
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True. It is best to wait and see before making up our minds.
I'm hoping with the war decided Xingke will be free for lelouch and Gino to introduce him to the joys of pushing the limits of prototype jets until they explode. Joining the Supersonic boys club feels like an appropriate start to Xingke's friendship with lelouch since we missed the chance for a most excellent adventure.
Edit: Unfortunately if we are going the route of Emperor Consort it's not productive to ignore Lihua the very next year, and investing time is more a requirement of proper fatherhood than optional.
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- Who Knows Where
Greta Romano is also at SL 4, just for the sake of accuracy.
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- Pennsylvania
Yeah I don't get that. I know all our low social links went up because of the briefing…but Greta specifically asked to be excluded from it so why did her SL go up?
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Because lelouch offered, which demonstrated a respect for her beyond a disposable pawn, which was all she expected, and didn't push the issue. The fact that this is the first the future dukes and VIP foreigners and advisors hear of it adds to the weight of the gesture of trust lelouch is extending to her.
That is a good point, that said if you were to separate the action into two it would obviously eat into our very limited number of actions we can take per year.
EDIT I may have had a brain fart when I wrote that.
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