For what it's worth, we can send trade missions to the Dead Priests now:
Secondary Survey Lands and Secondary New Settlement. The former to find an ideal build site and the latter for logistics.
Ok, I don't think we ever lost any actual opportunities due to low stability, the tax crisis was self-inflicted due to going maximum complexity off the bat and would have been fine stability wise had we not gotten greedy, which also covers the trouble portion ssince greed has done us in more than low stability. We also fixed those issues.
Well, the Tax thing would've been a lost opportunity if we hadn't tried to go for it anyway.
It's probably our lowest priority. It would unlock high level astronomy, as well as improve our large scale building and transportation methods.
The tax crisis also would've been stability wise had we had maximum stability when we went into it. We may have even succeeded in going maximum complexity.
No one here is scared of spending Stability on opportunities so long as we can redress it, as this and the last turn show. All we've done is weighed our options and decided the rewards of having higher Stability exceed the rewards of kicking the project. In the short term, it gets us to Stability 2, which has always been enough to keep us at least neutral when a crisis hits.
Grand Sacrifice is a perfectly decent stability booster. This is something I just don't get why you're so adverse to using it.
but even with kicking it we'll get stability 2. I just don't understand this mindset
We get Stability 2 if it's completed this turn, otherwise we get Stability 1, at least in the short term. If we don't kick at all, we get Stability 2 in the short term guaranteed and will get Stability 3 after the project is completed. That's a very strong buffer that will let us capitalise on any opportunity we come across completely and without restraint. There's also the double Main Black Soil that people are considering doing, which is something that will cause a great amount of societal disruption.
Agreed. It also doesn't have the [Stewards] tag so it might not count as a Land Management
Huh? I'm talking from a pure efficiency standpoint. Econ costs us 1 action per (unless the mine turns out to be a repeatable action, in which case everything suddenly changes). Main GS uses 3 econ and 2 actions to generate 2 stability. Thus it costs us 2.5 actions.
Saltern is likely to synergize well with the recent disease and even a +1 diplo bonus as a result means we gain 0.5 actions.
The chance it won't complete in one turn is imo unlikely due to Symphony, so long as we kick it.
Exactly. the chance to get hit with a -2 stab event in any turn is low, and in any case is rather unlikely it would happen before we finished Saltern even if it took 2 turns after kicking. There's very little chance we won't have stab 2 after we finish in AND by kicking it, so I don't see the issue.
