Multiple airports, even. When I wrote the Old Crows omakes, I figured that O'Hare would be defunct and Chicago would be relying on Midway International, which is smaller and closer to the city center and probably a lot easier to keep functional on some basic minimum level.
To present my own counterpoints to this:
And I remain skeptical of the idea. Before we actually start expat outreach, the number of experts we can get is unknown to us. The refugees are still lack access to our social system, so doing this before finishing Refugeee Management would make this action geared towards CFC natives, further increasing the social divide. With our current lack of experts, the project will be far planned far below the capacity with foreign experts, leaving us with fewer skilled workers than could be otherwise obtained. Put it another way: How well could you organize primary schools, if you didn't know how many teachers you will have? If your estimates are anywhere between several orders of magnitude?
I repeat that Retraining campaigns isn't an adult literacy project, it's a project educating people in trades. If we start the project now, the problem will not be a glut of workers. The problem will be not fully using the potential of expats, which leads to fewer skilled workers. Mechanically, you are more likely to waste an action point. I can see no reason to start training people this turn, especially not if the action calls out the complete lack of experts two times as a problem.
If I'm overlooking a reason to do this action this turn, please tell me.
I don't think we can count on a realistic influx of expats to the point where they outnumber CFC-resident teachers by one order of magnitude, let alone "several." And if we do get such an influx, the rewards of having so many more experts will more than solve our problems. Figuring out what to do with them all will constitute an embarrassment of riches, an "I wish I had problems like this more often" problem, compared to the potential bad consequences of delay.
An existing program can expand to accommodate more people. Nothing about any action we've seen since game start leads me to think that just because the thing we set up was originally designed not to count on having more people working on it, it will be inherently unable to adapt to having more people show up midway through the project. I think you have an excessively inflexible and narrow picture of what this action leads to.
Let's start from the beginning: Your idea that the first phase just involves planning is pure speculation. It's an assumption made by you and you further assume no negative effects can come from it. There are substantial issues contextually (planning access to a project without knowledge of the resources and with current scarcity, increased difficulty getting the balancing act between maintaining wages for labor and factory demand right, delayed access to training for refugees) from finishing it halfway. There is also the simply mechanical point that you run an increased risk of wasting a tech AP, since getting experts is near guaranteed to drop the action in difficulty. You are ignoring explicit warnings based on speculation to start an action before there is any need for it, because it sounds somewhat important. That is a bad idea in my humble opinion.
To continue this conversation: Supposing your unproven assumption about the nature of the halfway point proves true, I still see issues with your reasoning. If you get a sudden influx of experts, you need to throw your previous plans based on scarcity rationing away and plan the thing over. Bureaucracy isn't scalable by default, as our current bureaucratic woes with rapid CFC expansions prove. I don't expect this to be represented mechanically, but expect a lower reward contextually if we finish the action halfway before we get our first stream of experts.
Look at multi-step projects we've taken. The first step is always "groundwork laid, but the project isn't ready to take effect."
Isn't it?
To be fair, this matters a lot less if you're just flying very specific flights out of O'Hare and just need to reactivate one control tower, a few radars, and whatnot, and not the massive machinery of the terminals.
The trick is that whatever else you sacrifice to the dice gods, whatever you do, do NOT sacrifice a goat!
I highly doubt that especially with the FBI
They may not have specifically wanted his exact outcome, but we've observed that enough of the police are ultra-conservative in their political leanings that... Well, police, institutionally, may well have been sympathetic to things like the early "Christian Marines" going into "the wrong" areas of Boston and beating the shit out of 'the wrong kind of people.'
