Sounds like we really want to do this (and Yellow Zone generation) after we get our next stage of Blue Zone Energy generation online. The more Energy we're putting into all those Military factories, the more vulnerable to that kind of attack we're going to be.
The difference is that GDI has the knowledge base to field-assemble nuclear reactors to power military bases in a hurry. Because they do that in the games, more or less.
Mostly it is a matter of GDI and GDI's forerunners basically doing this for an actual century. The field assembly bit is relatively new, (inside the last 20 years) but still a whole lot of power plants in that time frame.
Yeah, now that we completed the Leopard factory, the Blue Zone Power Grid project is getting all our Heavy Industry dice, and quite possibly several free dice as well. Because there are a *ton* of factories/shipyards and other projects that will eat Energy.
It just feels insanely unrealistic, are we the head of treasury or the Dictator? Its not like anyone else in the quest does anything other than the occasional Nod reference.
Honestly this whole privatization thing should be a thing the entirety of the government is deciding, since encouraging things like coops and such would require concrete policies and legislation, our MC is nowhere near politically influential enough to make judges and legislators to rule and vote that way.
You underestimate just how much pull people like the Chancellor of the Exchequer (Britain's finance minister) can actually have on government policy. They are the one that sets the budget, dolls out grants, assigns additional funds to different ministries as needed or as according to their instructions from on high. When you are the one in control of the purse strings people listen to what you have to say as you can very easily not fund their projects or decide that next time the budget is being set for the year they get less. Of course though, if you upset too many people you can be removed for ignoring too much or for hoarding resources to yourself.
Yes, but they don't unilaterally decide public policy as well as the laws alone. Our MC is described as enigmatic, but this is also meaning that our influence and allies are few beyond being in the party that controls the government currently. We are literally the only one that does anything, the only one that decides what the GDI is doing in totality, because there is no reference to GDI doing anything other than what this mysterious guy with no real political game says to do. We got mildly talked to even at our least popular and other than that we do whatever we want.
We rarely hear any details about the forever war against NOD, or about the management and upkeep of all the industry supplying our spending, or about the internal diplomacy between GDI's various blue zones and politicians. Plus so far large parts of GDI have been unable to do more than keeping the lights on with their small budgets.
That would be very helpful, because in most if not all the updates, all we see is what our character is doing, and to me it feels like the difference between the Head of Treasury and the absolute monarch of GDI is the title.
.Dr. Granger is the #3 person in the world as far as power goes. (#1 being Kane, and #2 being Director Granger.) GDI total budget at Turn 1 was 500. We have come pretty close to doubling that. We have done far more than any other GDI higher-up towards damaging NOD's support in the Yellow Zones. Parliament could probably put pressure on to affect these decisions, but at the level of power we have, the question is what it costs to take an action, not whether he can do it or not.
So your saying we ARE the dictator? Like its constantly referenced that noone really talks to the MC and he doesn't really get involved in politics, his influence is practically nil because of that. Not to mention that even if we have not dipped to the popularity we had before, we likely don't have the public popularity to do whatever. Like our government is a democracy right?
