[X] Plan Offensive and Hoping for Alloy
Except for crystal study the 4 tech we have are for ship parts so taking the time now to progress two in different categories and try to get them close to finishing. I do want to unlock some sapiens tech but we have not had a 3rd focus to do so.Edit: On an entirely different note, why research nuclear and shield capacitors? That's not usefull at all, unless we want to create new ship designs. We've only just done that, so I don't see a reason to do it again.
It is stupid to throw an entire generation into the battlefield because stuff like logistics, morale and economies matter in wars and the QM is clearly going for verisimilitude in this quest. Reality cares for facts not Hard Men making Hard Decisions.
It won't. First of all, sending additional forces is more likely to weaken our side than to strengthen it. The Hivemind is psionic, and our units can not stand against that psionic might. The more forces we send, the greater a weakness we create within the allied defenses, and the more intel the hivemind has access to.
Secondly, the war has not yet started. What were doing now is a pre-emptive strike.
The bolded part of your quote matters only if conscripting an entire generation would pose logistical, morale or economics penalties, which they don't, as far as we know.
We do know that it does. Heck, just doing the whole conscripting an entire generation would have given us negative population growth and we know that going to war has had a political/social impact of making us more militaristic. If you are going to ignore that certain events have and will have indirect effects that aren't explicitly told to us when we choose them, then there is no point arguing with you because you haven't been paying proper attention to the details of the quest.
So, with that in mind, the difference between committing 100 million forces is of very little significance. It'd amount to less than 1% increase in deployed ground forces, while opening the offensive up to major risks in the form of betrayal and invasion, as well as various kinds of disruption.The Gellar Monarchy is committing only a few billion ground forces, with it's constituent species committing more than half their own populations of their own accord (considering one of their homeworlds is one of the reclamation targets), a good chunk of their industry, and well over two hundred size-worth of ships. The An'tak'he have committed close to ten billion on the ground, roughly two thirds the ship value, and about as much industry. Halon has decided to almost entirely commit industrial strength and ships.
Well it is 50 million, I revised it down and kept it there which is less than one turns pop growth on our home world and is likely pulling in part from reserves. We are nowhere near scrapping the barrel with that deployment.So, with that in mind, the difference between committing 100 million forces is of very little significance. It'd amount to less than 1% increase in deployed ground forces, while opening the offensive up to major risks in the form of betrayal and invasion, as well as various kinds of disruption.
In addition, people should keep in mind that our space forces (which are vastly more effective) consume energy, which we're rapidly bleeding. We need that pop to gain energy.
We're deep in the red on energy expenditure. We're already going to be scraping the barrel with zero deployment.Well it is 50 million, I revised it down and kept it there which is less than one turns pop growth on our home world and is likely pulling in part from reserves. We are nowhere near scrapping the barrel with that deployment.
Our energy reserves increased by 6 this turn. And sending 50 million still ends up with us up 20+ million pop on our homeworld so it wont be going down from there.We're deep in the red on energy expenditure. We're already going to be scraping the barrel with zero deployment.
Each fleet deployement costs 10 energy, which is going to increase rapidly as more ships are added.Our energy reserves increased by 6 this turn. And sending 50 million still ends up with us up 20+ million pop on our homeworld so it wont be going down from there.
Honestly I am expecting our fleet contribution to take casualties which means we will want a steady supply of ships to at least reinforce up to the current level of deployment.Each fleet deployement costs 10 energy, which is going to increase rapidly as more ships are added.
It might add one utterly random project, and only if the gained die goes into the chance of those projects. You have a lot of active projects, the chance of this happening is smaller than usual.Our fleet is doing more then our ground troops so i am sending the entire fleet and research subsidies will add two new projects to research.
It would increase your reserved Order progress considerably, but the issue is a matter of psychic maturity, not technology. Yes, if you put together a proper psi-division, they will naturally be more resilient, because you won't be accepting Dalfea with weak or latent abilities, but you can't just increase the level of strength of the average Dalfea.So, by any chance would expanding the number of people sent to the front mean a higher chance of gaining a tech to study based on resisting psichic pressure, or something similar? Or a military thing to help train our troops to do it, or something like that. Not immediate unlock of the tech, but a small number of research points already put in it.
[X] Plan Reasonable Commitment and Hoping for Alloy
That... was a big error I made.Our energy reserves increased by 6 this turn. And sending 50 million still ends up with us up 20+ million pop on our homeworld so it wont be going down from there.
They are taking some damage, but as part of the most unreasonably lucky task force, they did not take enough that field repair stations can't fix them up, even this time despite being the most hotly contested area.Honestly I am expecting our fleet contribution to take casualties which means we will want a steady supply of ships to at least reinforce up to the current level of deployment.
Thanks for the info, replaced it with filing the Most Valiant of the Hearth (Head of Planetary Defense and Expansion)It might add one utterly random project, and only if the gained die goes into the chance of those projects. You have a lot of active projects, the chance of this happening is smaller than usual.
Would adversity not speed maturity? Force the psi abilities of the army Dalfea to get up to par faster than it would normally occur? Just in order to survive on the battlefield despite the hive mind attentionIt would increase your reserved Order progress considerably, but the issue is a matter of psychic maturity, not technology. Yes, if you put together a proper psi-division, they will naturally be more resilient, because you won't be accepting Dalfea with weak or latent abilities, but you can't just increase the level of strength of the average Dalfea.
The overall power of a psionic isn't something you can train, edit, or even generationally select for more of. Notably, the average strength of your race's potential does rise as more of them exist, but this only affects the overall average. There will always be Dalfea whose abilities are weaker than their neighbor's.Would adversity not speed maturity? Force the psi abilities of the army Dalfea to get up to par faster than it would normally occur? Just in order to survive on the battlefield despite the hive mind attention
Why is it just time that increases psi powers? Is it a genetic thing which naturally increases through the generations? Or what? Is there anything we could do to speed our Psionic maturity?
Kalvanox remembers tribute?: 88, KALVANOX CAN'T JUST DROP IN AFTER SO LONG UNANNOUNCED. MAYBE KALVANOX SHOULD WAIT FOR THEM TO CALL FIRST... WOULD KALVANOX LOOK TOO ALOOF? MAYBE KALVANOX SHOULD JUST VISIT. OR KALVANOX COULD JUST HAPPEN TO BE AT THE SAME STAR SYSTEM ON A RAID... THAT WOULD SO LOOK MORE ORGANIC. KALVANOX IS TRULY BRILLIANT!