If the CRP will save Agri Dice by adding stored food using Infra. Both can be completed for this Plan
Q1 2061 is Ranching Dome 3 Dice.
Plus 1 in Freezing Plant
Q2 is either aquaponics or Agriculture mechanization 2 to 3 Dice
Q3 to Q4 Kudzu 3 Dice per quarter with a total of six.
Edit: That +1 Bonus is significant for our bureaucracy as it increases the chance for less completed projects to reach Omake Completion and is vastly cheaper than AEVA
I think you're making too many assumptions about
how much caloric reclamation will help. We shold, at least for now, be planning around still needing to spend our Agriculture dice completing the Stored Food requirement. If we're lucky, the caloric reclamation project will let us wrap up that project in 2061Q3 or even 'Q2,
and then we can start pursuing luxury options.
Or, instead of moldy-sock-cardboard we could suck it up and pay a bit more for at least some fungus bars, if not actual food. Geeze.
Bluntly, the Stored Food requirement is about survival needs. It's about GDI's capacity to keep the populace alive in the face of some kind of disastrous collapse of the food supply. Where the nature of this collapse is unpredictable and could be almost arbitrarily disastrous.
I think it behooves us to pursue all possible angles on that project until the target is met. There will, I have
very little doubt, be another Stored Food target next Plan. I think we should take it, and we can worry about making nicer food in the storage facilities then.
At least we'll have the moldy sock cardboard chunks if we get truly desperate and it's that or die. Who knows, maybe we can marinate the stuff in something that temporarily numbs your tongue so you don't have to taste it!
Trade Moldy Sock Cardboard for Steaks, Butter, Eggs and Tea! Yey!
That's actually a valid argument in my opinion. Being able to use (nutritious!) moldy sock cardboard for the stored food reserves we'll hopefully never have to eat... Means we can spare more of our agricultural production capacity to make things people will
very much want to eat.
To be honest, I am more. Inclined to Agriculture Mechanization than Aquaponics.
While Aquaponics is cheaper in terms of R. the Resources we have mean we can afford the Mechanization as it produces +20 Food at 400 Progress 2 Energy and 2 Capital Goods rather than Aquaponics which produces 18 Food at 480 Progress 3 Labor, 3 Logistics not much in terms of difference but slightly less effort in exchange of slightly higher amounts of food
Huh, you're right. The main problem is that as we approach the end of Phase 2 of the mechanization, we risk wasting at least one Agriculture die, which entirely cancels out the benefit of needing less Progress. Aquaponics, as far as we can tell, will go right on rolling over indefinitely, which makes me much less reluctant to throw dice at it.
I imagine the CRPs would work like the ion collectors where what they produce is based off the amount of other projects we've done.
Like if we've done 4 food producing or agriculture based projects we now get 4 bonus food from the waste from them. If we do another project that would move to 5 bonus food. Or something like that.
It being based off waste seems to imply a direct connection to other stuff we're doing. Or at least that makes sense to me.
The thing is, GDI had a lot of ongoing agriculture even at quest start. So there's no clearly defined number that says "this is how many projects you have making agricultural waste."
I think it's more likely that the rule is something like "spend X Progress on an Infrastructure project that generates +1 Stored Food. Want another +1 Stored Food? Spend X more Progress." And in theory, we can just keep doing this more or less indefinitely until we run out of agricultural waste to reprocess into edibles... and there is a
lot of agricultural waste. Though to be fair, we're probably already using a fair amount of that for fertilizer or otherwise cycling it back into the food production process, just more indirectly, so at some point we might cause problems- in that we are taking carbon and processing it into sequestered yuck for
people to eat in emergencies, rather than returning it to the carbon cycle of our existing farms/aquaponics/whatever.
