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Attempting to Fulfill the Plan: GDI Edition

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Rakuhn said:
You also switched out Strategic Food Stockpiles:

[ ] Strategic Food Stockpile Construction (Phase 5)
While localized caches are useful, more central positioning and expansion of existing larger stockpiles will be critical for allowing GDI to centralize refugee populations and continue to offer key services.
(Progress 149/170: 10 resources per die) (+2 Food in Reserve, -3 Food)

We're about to invade Pakistan, which will very likely involve very large numbers of refugees fleeing to GDI territory. In combination with the probable nuclear strikes causing internal refugees, I think that this is a very time-sensitive and critical project.
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I was going to argue against the immediate need for this, but by accident I managed to convince myself that I'm wrong. I've put a die on it from the Spider Cotton.
 
Whilst I am voting for this:
[X]Plan About That Labor Shortage

Quick question about something important considering what happened and why we're getting this tech:
Ithillid said:
[ ] Fifth Generation Electronic Video Assistants
The fourth generation of EVAs was something of a wet squib, pushed to readiness too early and with too little in the way of support, leaving refits both expensive and doing relatively little. However, GDI's computing technology has advanced in leaps and bounds, providing significant hardware and software advances. This, combined with the lessons learned from previous generations, has provided the opportunity for a new, better-supported generation of EVAs.
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Namely, what tech programs, development programs or construction projects do we have available which would see a noticeable change in the effect of the 5thGen EVAs? Because we should all remember that the reason the 4thGen EVAs didn't really get picked up was we 'rushed' them so they were more like 3.8thGen EVAs with all the issues that come from that and then we got a bunch of Computing reverse engineering and follow on projects come through that caused a seismic change there.

So I'm kind of wanting to avoid having that happen again. Yet at the same time, most of the projects which are likely to impact the 5thGen EVAs we can see, just haven't finished yet. So is this a case where we'll want to do the 5thGen EVA in a few turns after doing a bunch of other developments first? Or is everyone going in planning on making a 'basic' 5thGen EVA which may or may not use Isolinear Computers, but have everything needed to integrate more widespread Isolinear Computers, better AI technologies from the Drone Hubs and Boston, and all sorts of other things as they unlock without needing a complete redesign of them to put them in?

Or at least, will only need a minor 'clean up project' after developing most of those projects to go over the inclusion efforts and make sure nothing was missed or went strange.

Though having mentioned the Drone Hub...
Ithillid said:
[ ] Drone Control Hub Development (Tech)
The Visitors were, from what GDI can tell, an incredibly automated force, with only a bare handful of actual intelligences running the entire affair. Much of the work was offloaded onto various forms of EVA equivalents, managing the networks of drone systems across their invasion force. While replicating that level of automation with current computing technology is impossible, many advances in the practice and theory of large drone swarms can still be made while isolinear and other computer technologies mature.
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Is it better for us to have done 5thGen EVAs before doing the successor to this project (this one unlocking the ability to use the drone control AIs, not putting them into use) or will they either be built open to the use of 5thGen EVAs or otherwise don't interact with EVA tech in that way?
 
[X] Plan at your Service
[X] Plan Gremlinstomping
[X] Plan About That Labor Shortage
 
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Crazycryodude said:
Oops, fixed by removing a laser die
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Uh, are you sure you want to only have two dice there? If it's one of the only projects we can do now that'll support Karachi, (mainly better anti-missile defenses for our many Shark class ships,) I think a 43% completion chance is way less desirable than 99%. Would you please take that die from one of the other projects, instead?
 
Ithillid said:
[ ] Realign Standard of Living (New)
As part of parliamentary negotiations, the Treasury is being required to reassess the level of Consumer Goods production and availability that will be considered an acceptable baseline, adjusting away from wartime privations and towards a standard closer to the early 21st century in many areas. This is in part due to rising reports of inequality and accusations of favoritism from varying parties, and so the expectation is that the process will provide evidence to refute such claims.
-[ ] Low level adjustment: -150 Consumer Goods, -10 Consumer Goods/Turn
-[ ] Moderate adjustment: -200 Consumer Goods, -12 Consumer Goods/Turn
-[ ] Large adjustment: -250 Consumer Goods, -15 Consumer Goods/Turn
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A point about this that I haven't seen anyone make (sorry if you did and I missed it), is that part of the population issue coming up for GDI is a lack of hope that things will get better. This adjustment might just be one of the largest QoL improvements we can possibly make, it can frankly only help
 
Model DC.14F said:
Oh Kane Dammit, that reminds me, our biggest issue right now is the labor loss drain. Does anyone remember what the solution we were pursing was? I think it was more prosthetics and AI research?
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Which, ironically, is forcing people with Yellow Zone-level education out of more and more jobs, as we're replacing low-skill jobs with drones... And, no, "everyone gets college degrees and new jobs" isn't a good enough answer for all those affected. (Though it may be the best answer we can come up with...)
 
KlavoHunter said:
Which, ironically, is forcing people with Yellow Zone-level education out of more and more jobs, as we're replacing low-skill jobs with drones... And, no, "everyone gets college degrees and new jobs" isn't a good enough answer for all those affected. (Though it may be the best answer we can come up with...)
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Unfortunately there's no perfect answer there, at least re: keeping people engaged. IIRC we at least have a UBI/welfare system so it's not like we're relegating people to be turned out onto the street because they can't pay rent. Below our level of abstraction there's probably ways to make jobs for people (not the best, but it at least gives people something to do if they legitimately have nothing better they can or will do), along with loans for starting up small businesses.

And, while it's grim and I don't like the implication since it puts a bad taste in my mouth, people can always go to the army.
 
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