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Spending about three tiberium dice to get +500 refining capacity would be a LOT more efficient than spending about ten infrastructure dice to get +120 refining capacity.
Honestly, I'm worried that we'll
need the infrastructure dice. We're struggling to keep Logistics up and we're in the opening phases of a Housing crisis that will
definitely be attracting a lot of political flak because we've been to a large part ignoring it to build planned cities. It's like, Initiative First is home to a ton of racists and xenophobes, but they're going to attract a lot of voters who are wondering why they're still living in cramped little grim gray brutalist apartment blocks that stack up like Lego bricks a decade after the war, even while the Treasury spends vast amounts of time and resources building up big industrial tiberium hubs and processing centers in the Yellow Zones. It's going to seem like a somewhat unfair allocation of resources and attention as modeled by allocation of dice.
"If we can put a man on the moon again, why can't we build new arcologies?"
I expect that if we don't manage to kick up the rate of arcology construction
significantly, it's going to become a huge part of our targets for the next Plan.
[takes breath]
@CyberEnby ?
Are you familiar with the term "sore winner?"
I'm not saying
you're doing this, but in all seriousness, the hyperzealous "no backsliding" mindset has created a cadre of
very sore winners in this thread. I've been voting for the "more communism please" votes just as consistently as almost all of us, but it's gotten exasperating watching the nastiness. The pro-capitalist nastiness that flares up sometimes is just as unwelcome, but at least those guys are arguing
against the thread for identifiable reaosns, rather than simply continuing to beat on the corpse of their fallen enemy far past the point where they've clearly already won.
@Crazycryodude , I generally have a lot of respect for you but can you please
stop this tone? It's offensive to those who are planning for the evacuation as a fallback position.
At this rate? Based on what we've
actually been doing in the past seven years of gameplay? Use your eyes, man.
If GDI is reduced to a space-based remnant, it won't be because they "abandoned 80% of humanity to die."
It'll be because GDI's Earthside presence went down kicking, biting, and screaming, taking in as many refugees as they could to shelter them as long as they could before the hateful green crystal overran their buildings, fighting tiberium to the last
literal ditch.
Fighting
unsuccessfully, I might add, in this scenario, entirely because Kane stole the Tacitus that contains the knowledge of how to control tiberium and then, in this scenario, refused to share its secrets. Because if Kane actually hands over the TCN you can be sure as shit we're going to put in the time and effort to build it. If he chooses NOT to hand it over, then that is on
him and my only regret will be that he probably won't die with the Earth he murdered.
Blaming future GDI for "abandoning" Earth in such a scenario is just a way to twist the knife in the survivor's guilt at that point.
We've been finding no infiltration in the great majority of our efforts. At some point we're entitled to take a chill pill, though I can see wanting to do a sweep of tiberium department just as we initiate the stabilizer deployment, yeah...