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Terminus Quest: A CKII Mass Effect Quest

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LockedMind said:
That plague WAS a pandemic until our science advisor developed a cure, it seems.
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PoptartProdigy said:
"I'm not asking for your budget, Minister! And it's hardly something as simple as painkillers. The Rachni Plague might be under control, but it's a clear indication that we need to update our medical infrastructure! If we have people dying of disease, your navy will wither!"
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It's under control. Doesn't mean that there's a cure, just that it's not spreading.

And the fact that a plague managed to break out - named after the Rachni, no less (not sure if that's a misnomer or not) - in a space setting like Mass Effect is cause for concern.

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PoptartProdigy said:
"Madame Minister. I have compiled a report for you on what remains of the Rachni Plague. Currently, fewer than 4% of the population exhibit symptoms, and a mere 0.00000032% are expected to encounter lethal complications.
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That's 4% of a population of 5,000,000,000.

Which means 200,000,000 people were infected. Possibly across multiple races.

That is definite cause for concern.
 
PoptartProdigy said:
Also, bear in mind for your probability calculations that by default you don't add your PC's stat to actions. You need to take Personal Attention to do that.
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Hm. Either it was not clarified in mechanic description, or was not stressed enough.
Revisiting,.

Modified.
[] Plan Military + Fast Money.
- [] Expanding Production 40 k
-- 90 % success + 10 (advisor) should be auto-success
- [] Draft First Contact Protocols: 5k
- - 65 + 10 = 77% success chance, decent and the cost is low to begin with. Good enough.
- [] Off-World Mining
-- 80% +18 +10 - should be auto-success with personal attention
- [] The Sentry Network: 5k
- 90% + meh + 11 from advisour - should be auto-success.
- [] Medical Information: 10k
- - 70 + 9; 21 % failure chance. Tolerable for this cost.
- [] Personal Attention:
- - [] Off-World Mining

Total cost: 40 + 5 + 10 + 5+10 = 70,
Next turn 30 letftover, +50 next turn one time, +10 current income +1 OWM income= 91.

The goal is to grab fast money first and pump military. Next turn we invest personal attention into Up to Code, hopefully.

I dropped Up To Code because it has too high failure probability without personal attention for its cost, and this turn attention is fixed on the off-world mining. First and foremost we need to pump our economy and military, everything else is secondary. Even with sub-par ships we can win if we have advantage in numbers, and with good economy it is achievable.

@PoptartProdigy are there salarian females on Virmire ?
 
BlessedYetDamned said:
It's under control. Doesn't mean that there's a cure, just that it's not spreading.

And the fact that a plague managed to break out - named after the Rachni, no less (not sure if that's a misnomer or not) - in a space setting like Mass Effect is cause for concern.

Plus:

That's 4% of a population of 5,000,000,000.

Which means 200,000,000 people were infected. Possibly across multiple races.

That is definite cause for concern.
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That 4% is down from 20%, actually.

It was a catastrophe of epic proportions, and the fact that the lethality rate is so low now is quite the improvement. The plague is firmly in decline. Just...still quite the factor. It's named the Rachni Plague because it's completely new and the speculation is that it somehow spread from them.
permeakra said:
Hm. Either it was not clarified in mechanic description, or was not stressed enough.
Revisiting,.

Modified.
[] Plan Military + Fast Money.
- [] Expanding Production 40 k
-- 90 % success + 10 (advisor) should be auto-success
- [] Draft First Contact Protocols: 5k
- - 65 + 10 = 77% success chance, decent and the cost is low to begin with. Good enough.
- [] Off-World Mining
-- 80% +18 +10 - should be auto-success with personal attention
- [] The Sentry Network: 5k
- 90% + meh + 11 from advisour - should be auto-success.
- [] Medical Information: 10k
- - 70 + 9; 21 % failure chance. Tolerable for this cost.
- [] Personal Attention:
- - [] Off-World Mining

Total cost: 40 + 5 + 10 + 5+10 = 70,
Next turn 30 letftover, +50 next turn one time, +10 current income +1 OWM income= 91.

The goal is to grab fast money first and pump military. Next turn we invest personal attention into Up to Code, hopefully.

I dropped Up To Code because it has too high failure probability without personal attention for its cost, and this turn attention is fixed on the off-world mining. First and foremost we need to pump our economy and military, everything else is secondary. Even with sub-par ships we can win if we have advantage in numbers, and with good economy it is achievable.

@PoptartProdigy are there salarian females on Virmire ?
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There are some. It was hell to convince the Union that they should send any, but enough were sent to allow a native breeding population.
 
PoptartProdigy said:
That 4% is down from 20%, actually.

It was a catastrophe of epic proportions, and the fact that the lethality rate is so low now is quite the improvement. The plague is firmly in decline. Just...still quite the factor. It's named the Rachni Plague because it's completely new and the speculation is that it somehow spread from them.
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So the Rachni are possibly employing biological weaponry?

Also, 20%!? Holy fucking shit, how outdated is our Medical Tech!?
 
BlessedYetDamned said:
So the Rachni are possibly employing biological weaponry?

Also, 20%!? Holy fucking shit, how outdated is our Medical Tech!?
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That's one of the theories, but it's also possible that they just had a very nasty disease which a marine caught during a boarding action and then passed on. Nobody's really sure.

Not outdated. Just stretched very, very thin. Imagine: in one hundred years, this planet has gone from population: 0, to population: 5 billion. Medical infrastructure gets stretched under our current rates of population growth IRL. Imagine dealing with that tide of people.
 
PoptartProdigy said:
That's one of the theories, but it's also possible that they just had a very nasty disease which a marine caught during a boarding action and then passed on. Nobody's really sure.

Not outdated. Just stretched very, very thin. Imagine: in one hundred years, this planet has gone from population: 0, to population: 5 billion. Medical infrastructure gets stretched under our current rates of population growth IRL. Imagine dealing with that tide of people.
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Do our science advisor have the cure from "Learning" backstory? Otherwise I don't understand how did we get this pandemic under control, 20% infected is ruinous for a nation even if the disease in question is common cold and I think that something named "Rachni Plague" is much deadlier.
 
PoptartProdigy said:
That's one of the theories, but it's also possible that they just had a very nasty disease which a marine caught during a boarding action and then passed on. Nobody's really sure.

Not outdated. Just stretched very, very thin. Imagine: in one hundred years, this planet has gone from population: 0, to population: 5 billion. Medical infrastructure gets stretched under our current rates of population growth IRL. Imagine dealing with that tide of people.
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Yeah...

Don't think the Salarian said:
PoptartProdigy said:
If we have people dying of disease, your navy will wither!"
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Just for the Hell of it. Definitely need to focus on Medical & Domestic Affairs, between the Rapid Expansion + Rampant Corruption it sounds as if just about all of our affairs are a mess.
 
[X] Plan: Plugging holes

-[X] Emergency Refits: Time: 1 year. Chance of Success: 70%. Cost: 5,000 credits. Effect: Flood the front with garbage-tier, "warships," to buy time for you to secure the resources needed to really get your navy running. Navy takes significantly heavier losses for the duration.

-[X] Ministry Reorganization: Time: 1 year. Chance of Success: 55%. Cost: 15,000 credits. Effect: Restructure your Ministry of Relations, replace inexperienced and unprofessional staff with merely inexperienced staff, lose debuffs to Chances of Success from everybody being slightly shit.

-[X] Taking Stock: Time: 1 year. Chance of Success: 60%. Cost: 10,000 credits. Effect: Get an understanding of the staggering monument to excess and greed that is your government at the moment.

-[X] Domestic Affairs: Time: 1 year, Chance of Success: 70%. Cost: 10,000 credits. Effect: Must be taken in conjunction with, "Taking Stock." Significantly lowers the difficulty and cost of follow-up actions to, "Taking Stock," and increases its Chance of Success by 10%. Failure by more than ten may result in exposure and a scandal.

-[X] Medical Information: Time: 1 year. Chance of Success: 70%. Cost: 10,000 credits. Effect: Sponsor inspection and field trials into the likely causes of the shortfalls in medical care in search of a set of solutions upon which you can act.

-[X] Personal Attention: Time: 1 year. Chance of Success: 100%. Cost: none. Effect: Oversee one of your chosen actions personally, adding your full stat in the relevant category (i.e., Martial for Martial actions) to the success roll.
--[X] Ministry Reorganization

Spends 50,000. Next year's will be 60,000.
 
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LockedMind said:
Do our science advisor have the cure from "Learning" backstory? Otherwise I don't understand how did we get this pandemic under control, 20% infected is ruinous for a nation even if the disease in question is common cold and I think that something named "Rachni Plague" is much deadlier.
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That's how he came to your attention, in fact.
BlessedYetDamned said:
Yeah...

Don't think the Salarian said:

Just for the Hell of it. Definitely need to focus on Medical & Domestic Affairs, between the Rapid Expansion + Rampant Corruption it sounds as if just about all of our affairs are a mess.
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With a garden world like this, I needed to give you something to avoid you being terribly OP. ;)
 
[X] Plan Military + Fast Money.
-[X] Expanding Production
-[X] Draft First Contact Protocols
-[X] Off-World Mining
-[X] The Sentry Network
-[X] Medical Information
-[X] Personal Attention
--[X] Off-World Mining
 
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[X] Plan Military + Fast Money.
-[X] Expanding Production
-[X] Draft First Contact Protocols
-[X] Off-World Mining
-[X] The Sentry Network
-[X] Medical Information
-[X] Personal Attention
--[X] Off-World Mining
 
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[X] Plan Military + Fast Money.

As much as I'd like to do both the expansion and clearing out corruption this turn, we just literally cannot afford it. The hopeful infusion from the Mining should help.
Honestly I'd be tempted to say we should do the Railway infrastructure next turn, but if we're comfortable with our credit income then Cleaning House would be valid.
 
[X] Plan Military + Fast Money V2.0
-[X] Expanding Production
-[X] Draft First Contact Protocols
-[X] Off-World Mining
-[X] The Sentry Network
-[X] Medical Information
-[X] Personal Attention
--[X] Medical Information

Off-world Mining has a 90% chance without us, so I think we'd be better off putting our Personal Action into Medical Information, to bring the chance from 79% to 96%.
 
Karnax626 said:
Off-world Mining has a 90% chance without us, so I think we'd be better off putting our Personal Action into Medical Information, to bring the chance from 79% to 96%.
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Failure of offworld mining would be devastating. It is 50 k creds, and this is a large number. At the same time medical represents only 10k cred loss. I'm OK with suboptimal average income if it gives us insurance from a very bad thing.
 
[x] Plan Get Shit Done
-[x] Expanding Production
-[x] Ministry Reorganization
-[x] Taking Stock
-[x] Domestic Affairs
-[X] Medical Information
-[X] Personal Attention
--[X] Ministry Reorganization

Sure, this plan is expensive and includes a number of options which don't have a nice 90% success chance, but they are critical issues that need to be addressed. I suppose Taking Stock + Domestic Affairs could be put off until after Ministry Reorganization is finished -- in that case Off-World Mining + The Sentry Network should replace those two choices. But Ministry Reorganization is critical to increase success chances for all future projects.

EDIT: The reason for Expanding Production instead of Emergency Refits is because I think "Navy take significantly heavier loses for the duration" will be bad for both morale, population, and future production.

EDIT 2: It's been pointed out that this version leaves us with 25K if everything succeeds. And considering how much the options seem to cost, this would leave us with probably only enough money for a couple of things. So I've modified the v2 to take the Off-World Mining + Sentry Network choices to get some money flowing.

[x] Plan Get Shit Done v2
-[x] Expanding Production
-[x] Ministry Reorganization
-[x] Off-World Mining
-[x] The Sentry Network
-[X] Medical Information
-[X] Personal Attention
--[X] Ministry Reorganization
 
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