Granted it does take a point from Energy and Capital Goods but I'm not seeing other options to free up labor elsewhere. Unless there's an option to increase Education in Yellow/Green Zones to University level because they have more population than the Blue Zones.
We've been assured there are going to be more options
like that one, if and as we maintain a Capital Goods surplus and a Labor shortage. Right now our planners aren't recommending to the Secretary a lot of +Labor projects, because there's just plain not much reason to bother when we still have a considerable labor surplus. The switchover of the agriculture mechanization project is the herald of more similar projects to come, because it's the first area where we see a transition from us
needing more food and the mechanization project focusing on this, to us not really needing quantitatively more food and the mechanization project focusing on freeing up manpower.
I'm iffy on the Medical Support Commitments as it's probably a 4-5 dice thing. 1 for the development, 3-4 for the deployment. Especially as we're quite deep in a hole for Military. We'll probably have to put most of our free dice there in the third 4 YR plan. But since this is all around helpful and synchonises with our push for medical services recently, I'll say yes.
I don't think we can afford to go on slinging all our Free dice at Military indefinitely; we need to start making space more of a priority or we won't have a good-ish fallback option if tiberium hulks out somehow or if Kane decides to be an asshole about the TCN. And of course there are all sorts of projects where our infrastructure development is lagging because we have no Free dice to allocate to them,
ever, basically.
But the medevac vehicle will help keep ZOCOM up and running, which is a good thing because we lean on them so much.
Maybe just get one armor factory relatively soon, so ground force will have at least a trickle of armor coming in?
I mean we
can, but based on past precedent doing things like that doesn't really accomplish much. We'd have to get like 3-4 factories going for them to have much impact on the general war outcomes, I think.
Ironic that our policies seem to be shaping up to something the Free Market Party should be going for.
I mean... not really?
If the Free Market Party were happy, we'd have farmed out basically all our income to grants for giant zaibatsu and we'd basically just be funding tiberium and the military on a budget of maybe 300 R/turn,
tops. Yellow Zoners would be toiling in sweatshops with no prospect of better nutrition than fungus bars, probably with as little political representation as the FMP could manage.
We just
aren't there. Some of our specific policies,
viewed in isolation, are things that the FMP would also be doing in some recognizable form... but the superstructure those policies fit into isn't the same. It's like observing that we walk around on our feet rather than doing handstands all the time,
like a bunch of capitalists. It's kind of facile.
It is then a very good thing then that nearly all eco choices got taken away from us. The Left majority in Parliament will take it off from here on and probably bash our skulls a few times if we do not behave.
Except that the analysis you're replying to isn't really even
true, the problem isn't that we've pursued pro-FMP policies, it's that out of character the thread/Discord discussion surrounding economic right/left decisions got too vicious for the QM's patience.
Let's not make pretensions about what's been happening here.
And so I anticipate a number of extra demands from Parliament to make up for this, which will likely distort any plans we've been working on. Possibly another phase of shells and URLS immediately, as well as some other things... I'm not sure what it will be, but I expect it to make any preliminary plans that have been posted pretty much completely impossible.
Nitpick: Shell and URLS phases are pretty much exactly the kind of stuff we'd want to do anyway, because they're impactful on the military situation while being relatively cheap per die. It's the fancy chrome-plated stuff like sensor refits that we may not be able to afford in 2058.
Edit: Ithillid has said that Parliament probably should slap us for a -16 Leverage deal, but probably won't. So I guess that consequence isn't likely... but I still feel like it's inviting trouble.
Well, Granger has a lot of political clout at this point, even if he usually doesn't throw it around too hard. This seems like the kind of deal he could swing, especially since there are weird little pockets of pro-Forgotten sentiment in odd corners of GDI's political structure (e.g. Second Tiberium War veterans).
