KnightDisciple
Love God. Do Right. Fear No Man.
- Location
- Midwest, USA
[X] Expand Official Backchannels
Attempting to Fulfill the Plan: GDI Edition
- Location
- Wall Gazing
PFFFF. Ok. Ok everything is fine. All thats happened is this quarter's refugees have doubled from last quarters, everything is fine.
1900 12/10/1995. This is a reference to the day Tiberium came down isn't it?
Yeah. This is going to be an extended problem.
Concerning that the push of Fusion we've had might have defects from how rapidly we've been pushing it out. Thankfully we should be somewhat slowing down the rollout.
Yeah. This, combined with how many refugees we are getting is going to be a big issue. If CRP is going to be limited to a minor part of the Reserve strategy, then we are gong to need a significant investment of free dice into Agriculture.
As for the Bureaucracy thing, back channels are advantageous for a variety of reasons, but they could also lead to expansive corruption, which would then require a purge. Backchannels are best used to diffuse tensions between states, and unless we are suddenly treating companies as states, I don't think that is a good idea. We'll have to eat the -5 to Bureaucracy dice for a turn.
[X] Eliminate Outside Influence
[X] Eliminate Outside Influence
At minimum we need to do this.
At minimum we need to do this.
- Location
- The Underdark
Founding of the Global Defense Initiative actually. Not a particularly secure password, but easy to remember.
- Location
- his hidden lair
We'd probably try and derive drone networks all about information and coordination, laser guidance, peaking around corners, tight beam comm relays. That sort of thing.
I doubt trying to derive buzzer ablative drone shields would work out that well for us. Scrin Buzzers would be way more agile and responsive than anything we can make, and plasma fire would probably disperse into and fry most of the swarm given its near liquid properties. As a general rule smaller electronics are a lot more vulnerable to excess heat.
[X] Eliminate Outside Influence
I'm going to swing this way out of the options. Leaving it be seems like a bad idea (as does purging Bureacracy), but I don't really want to put official backchannels in to whatever third parties want them. If other gov't branches want info, there are official channels they can use (on or off the record).
So our Mastodon started out as the C&C4 version, and ended up as an unholy combination of an AT-TE and AT-AT. I love it.
We have 7 free dice a turn. Generally, it seems like 3-5 dice get spent on Military a turn. I've suggested an approach that spends 8 dice on Plan Goals and 2 free dice a turn on not-quite-Plan-Goals (Skywatch and frigate yards) the next two turns, while all other free dice go to other departments (like agriculture and orbital where we don't have slack in dice). Then possibly pull some back in Q3 if dice rolled well in other areas Q1-2 (and potentially finishing off Plan Goals this turn), and possibly use all 7 in Mil Q4 to blitz out a lot of progress on a number of optional projects at the end of the Plan.
My thoughts on Mil in 2062 might be to slow roll the last two Wingman programs with 1-2 dice a turn across 2062 (2d 40r each seems preferable early, then 1d 20r each later to actually complete it in 2062 since Hammerhead needs 5-7 dice for clear and Orca needs 7-9), then also kinda slow roll SADN and GFZA with 1-2 dice a turn. Then slip in year new designs/development where we have available dice out of the 8 Mil dice. Mammoth Mk III Block 4, Guardian Mk 2, Paladin, Island/Victory, ZOCOM (drones, backpack launcher, Lancer), and so forth. And hopefully we can ramp up a bit more in 2063 on factories and shipyards.
This would mean that our amphib ships won't be available for Karachi (possibly also the Victories), but would likely be available for follow up operations or new offensives elsewhere (like the Pacific or Caribbean). Also ought to have new ground gear in time for Karachi?
I'm going to swing this way out of the options. Leaving it be seems like a bad idea (as does purging Bureacracy), but I don't really want to put official backchannels in to whatever third parties want them. If other gov't branches want info, there are official channels they can use (on or off the record).
So our Mastodon started out as the C&C4 version, and ended up as an unholy combination of an AT-TE and AT-AT. I love it.
The military actually ought to have enough dice left in it to do all Plan Goals and finish frigate yards without needing Free Dice. Of course, that means we'd be in Q4 still finishing up Plan Goals (or postponing frigate yards until then), but technically we're good. It's just that people at times confuse actual needs with "needs" (that are actually wants) and thus keep pouring additional dice/resources into Military so they can throw dice at other projects this Plan like we're the Military-Industrial Complex with some other departments attached.
We have 7 free dice a turn. Generally, it seems like 3-5 dice get spent on Military a turn. I've suggested an approach that spends 8 dice on Plan Goals and 2 free dice a turn on not-quite-Plan-Goals (Skywatch and frigate yards) the next two turns, while all other free dice go to other departments (like agriculture and orbital where we don't have slack in dice). Then possibly pull some back in Q3 if dice rolled well in other areas Q1-2 (and potentially finishing off Plan Goals this turn), and possibly use all 7 in Mil Q4 to blitz out a lot of progress on a number of optional projects at the end of the Plan.
My thoughts on Mil in 2062 might be to slow roll the last two Wingman programs with 1-2 dice a turn across 2062 (2d 40r each seems preferable early, then 1d 20r each later to actually complete it in 2062 since Hammerhead needs 5-7 dice for clear and Orca needs 7-9), then also kinda slow roll SADN and GFZA with 1-2 dice a turn. Then slip in year new designs/development where we have available dice out of the 8 Mil dice. Mammoth Mk III Block 4, Guardian Mk 2, Paladin, Island/Victory, ZOCOM (drones, backpack launcher, Lancer), and so forth. And hopefully we can ramp up a bit more in 2063 on factories and shipyards.
This would mean that our amphib ships won't be available for Karachi (possibly also the Victories), but would likely be available for follow up operations or new offensives elsewhere (like the Pacific or Caribbean). Also ought to have new ground gear in time for Karachi?
- Location
- New England
If this was a real bureaucracy, we'd definitely leave it alone or expand backchannels. Because nothing says global hegemon like making "insider trading" official.
As for the actual optimal solution, I don't know. I don't think we can afford the dice penalties from purge, which is unlikely to fully succeed anyway. The minor dice hit from eliminating influence is ok, but is a temp solution and we'd probably have to keep blowing dice on it - so it's basically like a purge except relying on player memory for continued effectiveness (which, no offense to you guys, is kind of like relying on a hamster's long-term memory). I do like the +PS from backchannel, but that's like putting bendy straws in the holes in a colander.
As for the actual optimal solution, I don't know. I don't think we can afford the dice penalties from purge, which is unlikely to fully succeed anyway. The minor dice hit from eliminating influence is ok, but is a temp solution and we'd probably have to keep blowing dice on it - so it's basically like a purge except relying on player memory for continued effectiveness (which, no offense to you guys, is kind of like relying on a hamster's long-term memory). I do like the +PS from backchannel, but that's like putting bendy straws in the holes in a colander.
[X] Eliminate Outside Influence
If this is a long term problem, the solution is to kick it to Parliament and telling them to deal with it by legislation.
Yeah if we do the opsec refreshers I think we're going to have to check again in 3-4 turns to see what state we're in, if this stays a recurring problem then hopefully we'll get new options to address it other than "run a Bureau security check every single year forever."
- Location
- New England
Maybe, but how're you gonna legislate Karen talking to Susan at the kudzu tea machine?
BoSPaladin
The Paladin
[X] Expand Official Backchannels
- Location
- Mid-Atlantic
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Yeah, wow.
I'm not sure what we can actually do about this ourselves, but we should try if we can?
Though you'd think they'd have tried to kill her when she wasn't inside a humongous walking gun platform.
Because Al-Jilani was the guy who yanked half the Hawk Party out from under Ozawa, who would otherwise have been able to wield that big bloc much more effectively.
...Okay, I remember a mention of Nod having reverse-engineered buzzers, and yeah.
Yeah, wow.
I'm not sure what we can actually do about this ourselves, but we should try if we can?
1100 to work with, huh. That's something.
-10 per turn, holy shit. Yeah, we need to finish at least one phase of apartments per turn just to sink slowly right now. Two per turn to keep ahead of the flood.
Food went up by +4 when we added +6 Food of production. This is good; it suggests that the refugee wave isn't going to eat us down at ridiculous rates. Next turn we can focus on building actual storage facilities, which may hopefully shut up some of the jerks yelling at us.
Wartime demand is down, refugee demand is steady.
Militarist support has ticked up incrementally, IF has very slightly hardened against us, UYL has very slightly hardened for us, ten Starbound reps have flipped from 'mild support' to 'mild opposition, and like 1-2 each in a few other parties have moved slightly.
Smart guy.
Very smart guy. And this helps explain why we're gonna be seeing a push for grants.
Haaahahaaa!
Well, that's one way to try and assassinate General Jackson.
Though you'd think they'd have tried to kill her when she wasn't inside a humongous walking gun platform.
It sounds like the antitank missile ambush failed. Well, it managed to kneecap Jackson's big stompy murderbot, but that's about it.
Crucible seems to be quite the survivor.
Hm, I think we can more or less work with Yong, but it's a damn shame that Al-Jilani is dead. Al-Jilani should be remembered as one of the great heroes of post-TWIII politics, and probably did more to make the difference between our timeline and the failure of the canon timeline than anyone except Granger.
Because Al-Jilani was the guy who yanked half the Hawk Party out from under Ozawa, who would otherwise have been able to wield that big bloc much more effectively.
Oi. Well, we can keep working with him too, but again, a damn shame.
The bulk of our investment for Ground Force at first is gonna need to be Zone Armor, then APC upgrades (to accommodate Ground Forces troops in Zone Armor), then every other kind of vehicle. However, we can't mega-spend on this at any one time. Too much else going on.
Okay, we'll see what we can do.
- Location
- Africa
[X] Eliminate Outside Influence
Strunkriidiisk
THE LEGEND
- Location
- Canada
- Pronouns
- He/Him
[X] Expand Official Backchannels
I misread that as "Kane talking to Susan", which led me off in rather different directions than I think you intended.
Well, Granger and Granger.
But yeah. o7 Al-Jilani.