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I am pretty sure the head of the Treasury will be seen as having need to know on at least broadly what the new portal design he's supposed to sign over the equivalent of two trillion dollars for. We've already been told a few things.
But seriously, while what you say is true, it in no way corrects or invalidates my point, which is that projects do not always get all the cash money they need in order to succeed as part of the first die allocated to them. Sometimes the project hits an unexpected snag and goes overbudget. And this is frequently given as a justification in-story for why projects wind up stalled out close to completion and need to be finished next quarter with one more die.
Yes, well, evidently the portal design science team can, or at least things it's worth pushing the technology with a more ambitious prototype using existing technology as proof of concept. Among other things, because we'll feel more motivated to develop anything else they need once we know from experience what they need because they've built a prototype and can easily identify its deficiencies.
Hm. Interesting variation on the theme. Personally I never really had a problem with your original plan even if I personally prefer "wait one turn for really major portal dice spam, so we finish Alloys Phase 5" as an approach slightly.
The one thing I'll note about this plan variant is that due to a combination of factors, I think you should perhaps consider flipping one die from veins to spikes. My reasons:
1) The enhanced yield project won't complete this turn without two dice under any circumstances. The vein mines, theoretically, might.
2) My plan has two dice on vein mines because next turn, I expect to need the money for portals. You are not operating under any such constraint; if we take your plan it is vanishingly unlikely that we'll need to spend more than one die on portals, and as I've demonstrated, one portal die can be fit into our existing budget easily even alongside serious alloy spending.
3) Frankly, I think that enhanced yield spike research is now more popular among voters than vein mines. At least one, possibly more than one, person has asked me to introduce enhanced yield spikes to my plan, and I think that having that project is in effect a secondary draw.
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So I would suggest not compromising that specific bit of your plan's uniqueness, and keeping two dice on spikes, even if it makes it unlikely that the plan will actually complete that phase of vein mines.
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