As far as STU projects go...
I'm thinking repulsorplates next turn.
Then save up for the lasers.
Then the last phase of alloys after North Boston.
If we want an aggressive push to get portals in Q4, it's tough to fit in budget for repulsorplates.
This is an extremely rough draft plan. Numbers aren't perfect and need refining.
I repeat, I know numbers need refining. This is just to at least try and look at what we can afford.
Notably, going by Doruma's numbers for how much money we'll have, it's
explicitly 25 R over budget even assuming we get the 30 RpT from the vein mines on schedule despite the natural 1, because part of the reason I'm posting this is to ask people "so, what do you want to cut?"
Some options:
1) Sacrifice the shuttles die for housing refits (15 R) or arcologies (10 R, completion right before election might be very popular despite having no +PS bonus in the eyes of
the legislature in particular)
2) Swap out repulsorplate dice for North Boston dice (10 R per). It's not
really feasible for a three-die portal plan to get repulsorplates in one turn even if it's desirable to try (debatable given the scope of the project), and just accepting that we'll be finishing the repulsorplate factories more gradually over 2-3 turns lets us save some money while still getting much of the project finished.
3) Literally anything in Light Industry that doesn't cost 30 R/die; Bergen is a big money hog this turn.
Most other options I see are rather unsatisfactory (such as canceling one of the highly sought-after Military projects I have listed in favor of, say, GD-3 rollout).
1280/1255 R budget
6/6 Free dice (2 Heavy Industry, 4 Orbital)
[] Draft Plan Attempting to 2063Q4 (Three Portal Dice)
-[] Infrastructure (5/5 Dice, +27 bonus, 80 R)
--[] Blue Zone Arcologies (Stage 4) 277/480 (3 dice, 45 R) (about 50/50 chance?)
--[] Postwar Housing Refits (Phase 2) 33/160 (1 die, 10 R) (1/2 median)
--[] Suborbital Shuttle Service (Phase 3) 27/160 (1 die, 25 R) (1/2 median)
-[] Heavy Industry (5/5 Dice + 2 Free Dice, +34 bonus, 165 R)
--[] 2nd Gen. CC Fusion Plants (Phase 3) 143/305 (2 dice, 40 R) (fair chance of next phase)
--[] Second Generation Repulsorplate Factories 0/535 (5 dice, 125 R) (very slim chance)
-[] Light Industry (4/4 Dice, +29 bonus, 120 R)
--[] Bergen Superconductor Foundry (Phase 4) 235/640 (4 dice, 120 R)
--[] Not saying I wouldn't do anything else to free up portal money.
--[] But this is the only thing left on the docket that's KNOWN.
-[] Agriculture (6/6 dice, +29 bonus, 40 R)
--[] Agriculture Mechanization Projects (Phase 2) 203/230 (1 die, 15 R) (~100% chance)
--[] Reforestation Campaign Preparations (Phase 1) 457/815 (5 dice, 25 R) (very good chance)
-[] Tiberium (7/7 dice, +39 bonus, 165 R)
--[] Red Zone Containment Lines (Stage 6+7+8) 54/550 (4 dice, 100 R) (Stage 6, prob 7, slim 8)
--[] Enhanced Harvest Tiberium Spikes 0/180 (2 dice, 40 R) (72% chance)
--[] Coordinated Abatement Programs (Phase 2) 83/190 (1 die, 25 R) (about 50/50 chance)
-[] Orbital (7/7 Dice + 4 Free dice + EREWHON!!!, +34 bonus, 240 R)
--[] GDSS Columbia (Phase 5) 956/1030 (1+E dice, 40 R) (overwhelming chance)
--[] GDSS Shala (Phase 4) 367/1040 (5 dice, 100 R) (might have a slim chance?)
--[] Hospital Bay 184/315 (2 dice, 40 R) (very good chance)
--[] Spaceport Bay 0/315 (3 dice, 60 R) (some chance)
-[] Services (4/4 Dice + AA Die, +35 bonus, 330 R)
--[] University Program Updates 137/250 (AA die, 15 R) (~100%)
--[] Library Enhancement Programs 0/185 (1 die, 15 R) (22% chance)
--[] Primitive Portal Construction 73/400 (3 dice, 300 R) (close to 50/50)
-[] Military (7/7 Dice, +31 bonus, 140 R)
--[] Orca Wingmen Drone Deployment (Phase 2) 56/230 (2 dice, 40 R) (about 50/50 chance)
--[] Island Class Assault Ship Deployment 0/145 (2 dice, 50 R) (pretty good chance)
--[] Shark Class Frigate Shipyards (Seattle) 148/240 (2 dice, 40 R) (very high chance)
--[] MRAP Factory (1 die, 20 R) (1/4 median)
-[] Bureaucracy (4/4 Dice, +29 bonus)
--[] Administrative Assistance: University Program Updates
--[] TWO BUREAU DICE ON ??? NOT SURE YET
---[] Trading with Nod? Last-minute political promises? Another AA die if we can scrape up the money?
Red Zone Contaiment Lines swapped out for cheaper research? Do Boston instead of Repulsorplates, because we really need AI chips?
