Actually I did look to see. I've been reading every post since Q2 2056 Results threadmark. So I saw you argue with every single post that suggested that Cruiser Shipyards not be built since that Threadmark. So no I don't know the opinion of everyone in the thread because every plan builder has either agreed with you for whatever reason or has been arguing with you.
Most of the thread want those Cruiser Yards, but there are some posters that don't and I don't know how many of those either lurk when they see every plan that can win have Cruiser Yards or just plan around them and vote for plans that do other things they want. At this point you have been personally banging the drum of the Cruiser Yards actions so hard it is impossible for me to tell what the entirety of the thread thinks about them, I can just tell which posters don't care to argue with you about Cruise Yards either because they agree with you or it isn't worth it.
[Shrugs]
Neither I nor anyone else has a mind control machine. If the cruiser yards were unpopular, you'd see people suggesting plans that don't include cruiser yards, and those plans getting a lot of support, fairly consistently. There's nothing magic required to make a plan, and there's
especially nothing magic required to just delete one item from a plan and replace it with something else you like better.
You don't have to believe me if you prefer to listen to the place you get your certainties from, but the thread as a whole has a strong consensus in favor of actually committing to finishing the cruiser yards action. This is because we're concerned about the naval situation (as you say you are) and know that GDI's navy cannot win a naval war without an adequate supply of
ships. While our ground and air forces at least have the tools they need to manufacture the equipment they need to fight with, the navy effectively does not, making them a high priority.
You can say "well, I dunno about that," but the evidence is there if you care to look for it.
Alright since this seems to have gone confusing enough: My main argument for building Tidal Power Stations Action to it's completion is so they can act as a tripwire of sorts for NOD sea forces. We are already getting attacked by the Ten Rings in this phase so there is no point in building more than it, but once the cruisers and the foils are sailing I want that action done so I can see where NOD responds with force on the sea. That is my reason for building them up past the third phase.
In regards to
Tidal Power, we already have plenty of tidal power stations all over the place to act as tripwires. Further construction of tidal power stations doesn't provide some amazing benefit along those lines, at least not to the point where we should be building tidal power stations that don't make economic sense given the cost. We've got other pressing things to do with Infrastructure dice.
Except that Mathematics itself is a language not a science. It is the language of science and it taps into our neural calculator which is something that most languages don't do, but it is a language all the same. As such just the phrasing itself of a problem can and is biased towards looking at the problem from the paradigm it was phrased in.
Or in layman's terms: Whatever decision was made as to what constitutes a simple math problem to be solved so the plan makers can get on with their plans isn't one I agree with and as such I don't find the solutions to the problem so defined of use to me when making plans.
I have no idea what you're talking about or what "decision" you think other people are making.
As far as I can determine, you just declared that your sophisticated decision-making process is so advanced that it transcends the boundaries of basic arithmetic. That having such a complicated and multi-factored thought process protects you from needing to know how to count. That the ability to answer questions like "to do a thing, will I need four of these, or six of these" is somehow beneath you.
Now, that would be a pretty silly thing for you to say, so maybe I misunderstood.
There's a pretty strong argument for taking the Forgotten Outreach - we're always struggling for PS.
Seo is something of a maverick who's probably going to delve deeper into Tiberium research than anyone before, and that will have political costs. Taking an option that will make him better able to generate political support is pretty valuable from that standpoint. Especially since it looks like we're going to need to use Tiberium Fuel Cells to power the Inhibitors and Stabilizers.
I think
@Ithillid told us that Granger, being one of the most apolitical choices for Treasury Secretary
possible, is particularly bad at finding projects that gain Political Support.
Seo may already have fewer problems along these lines despite being a maverick; it just means we'll need to be intentional about which of his wild-haired ideas we implement, and occasionally make suboptimal choices like commsat spam to gather more +PS.
