Attempting to Fulfill the Plan MNKh Edition
- Thread starter Blackstar
- Start date
- Alt. History Users' Choice!
Voted best in category in the Users' Choice awards.
- Location
- California
[x]Construction Labor
[x]Focus on the Party
[x]Focus on the Party
[X]Focus on Education: The youth's education in the sciences is the nation's highest priority. (-5 Party Influence, 50 progress on Schooling Programs)
[X]Construction Labor: Through the use of already existing infrastructure, a considerable amount of construction can be done more quickly and cheaply with a labor pool that no longer needs to be recruited from villages. Such a labor pool can also be useful for massive projects to be accomplished and would preserve non-criminal personnel for less risky labor. (30 Resources per turn, Additional Infrastructure dice, Manpower Shortage Reduced)
You know what? I think the suboptimal gameplay effects of Focus on Education are intentional, it's not supposed to be politically expedient or useful to semi-secularize the Pioneers it's supposed to be a moral choice. Are you willing to go against the Party to make a better future for the Union's youth even decades after you're dust, or will you bow to the office politics of the moment?
[X]Construction Labor: Through the use of already existing infrastructure, a considerable amount of construction can be done more quickly and cheaply with a labor pool that no longer needs to be recruited from villages. Such a labor pool can also be useful for massive projects to be accomplished and would preserve non-criminal personnel for less risky labor. (30 Resources per turn, Additional Infrastructure dice, Manpower Shortage Reduced)
You know what? I think the suboptimal gameplay effects of Focus on Education are intentional, it's not supposed to be politically expedient or useful to semi-secularize the Pioneers it's supposed to be a moral choice. Are you willing to go against the Party to make a better future for the Union's youth even decades after you're dust, or will you bow to the office politics of the moment?
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[X]Focus on Education: The youth's education in the sciences is the nation's highest priority. (-5 Party Influence, 50 progress on Schooling Programs)
[X]Construction Labor: Through the use of already existing infrastructure, a considerable amount of construction can be done more quickly and cheaply with a labor pool that no longer needs to be recruited from villages. Such a labor pool can also be useful for massive projects to be accomplished and would preserve non-criminal personnel for less risky labor. (30 Resources per turn, Additional Infrastructure dice, Manpower Shortage Reduced)
[X]Construction Labor: Through the use of already existing infrastructure, a considerable amount of construction can be done more quickly and cheaply with a labor pool that no longer needs to be recruited from villages. Such a labor pool can also be useful for massive projects to be accomplished and would preserve non-criminal personnel for less risky labor. (30 Resources per turn, Additional Infrastructure dice, Manpower Shortage Reduced)
- Location
- California
[X]Focus on Education: The youth's education in the sciences is the nation's highest priority. (-5 Party Influence, 50 progress on Schooling Programs)
[X]Construction Labor: Through the use of already existing infrastructure, a considerable amount of construction can be done more quickly and cheaply with a labor pool that no longer needs to be recruited from villages. Such a labor pool can also be useful for massive projects to be accomplished and would preserve non-criminal personnel for less risky labor. (30 Resources per turn, Additional Infrastructure dice, Manpower Shortage Reduced)
[X]Construction Labor: Through the use of already existing infrastructure, a considerable amount of construction can be done more quickly and cheaply with a labor pool that no longer needs to be recruited from villages. Such a labor pool can also be useful for massive projects to be accomplished and would preserve non-criminal personnel for less risky labor. (30 Resources per turn, Additional Infrastructure dice, Manpower Shortage Reduced)
Random Member
Gardener of Human Happiness
- Location
- Behind You
If it's supposed to be a choice, it's a false one. We're not sacrificing "a better future", we can easily fund more education programs that will achieve exactly the same as the Focus on Education option.
Besides, teaching the children good Communist values is important too!
Cmd. Frost
The last one standing.
- Location
- The Summer Stretch
[X]Focus on Education:
[X]Construction Labor:
[X]Construction Labor:
- Location
- IN SPACE
- Pronouns
- She/Her
[X]Focus on Education: The youth's education in the sciences is the nation's highest priority. (-5 Party Influence, 50 progress on Schooling Programs)
[X]Construction Labor: Through the use of already existing infrastructure, a considerable amount of construction can be done more quickly and cheaply with a labor pool that no longer needs to be recruited from villages. Such a labor pool can also be useful for massive projects to be accomplished and would preserve non-criminal personnel for less risky labor. (30 Resources per turn, Additional Infrastructure dice, Manpower Shortage Reduced)
@Crazycryodude makes a good point, I'm willing to switch because mechanics aren't everything.
[X]Construction Labor: Through the use of already existing infrastructure, a considerable amount of construction can be done more quickly and cheaply with a labor pool that no longer needs to be recruited from villages. Such a labor pool can also be useful for massive projects to be accomplished and would preserve non-criminal personnel for less risky labor. (30 Resources per turn, Additional Infrastructure dice, Manpower Shortage Reduced)
@Crazycryodude makes a good point, I'm willing to switch because mechanics aren't everything.
HanEmpire
Delicious
[X]Focus on Education: The youth's education in the sciences is the nation's highest priority. (-5 Party Influence, 50 progress on Schooling Programs)
[X]Construction Labor: Through the use of already existing infrastructure, a considerable amount of construction can be done more quickly and cheaply with a labor pool that no longer needs to be recruited from villages. Such a labor pool can also be useful for massive projects to be accomplished and would preserve non-criminal personnel for less risky labor. (30 Resources per turn, Additional Infrastructure dice, Manpower Shortage Reduced)
[X]Construction Labor: Through the use of already existing infrastructure, a considerable amount of construction can be done more quickly and cheaply with a labor pool that no longer needs to be recruited from villages. Such a labor pool can also be useful for massive projects to be accomplished and would preserve non-criminal personnel for less risky labor. (30 Resources per turn, Additional Infrastructure dice, Manpower Shortage Reduced)
[X]Focus on the Party: The youth's education in the immortal sciences is the nation's highest priority. (No change)
[X]Construction Labor: Through the use of already existing infrastructure, a considerable amount of construction can be done more quickly and cheaply with a labor pool that no longer needs to be recruited from villages. Such a labor pool can also be useful for massive projects to be accomplished and would preserve non-criminal personnel for less risky labor. (30 Resources per turn, Additional Infrastructure dice, Manpower Shortage Reduced)
Also, it would allow us to create sharashkas for imprisoned engineers optimised for productivity.
(Can we declare nuclear physics a pseudoscience, arrest all the nuclear physicists, and use them to build The Bomb ahead of shedule? Along with RBMK reactors?)
On another hand, shifting focus to education is bad because:
a) Sergo is more vulnerable next turn when Stalin calls him up to ask why there's no steel.
b) It would force those seeking better education to be indoctrinated with whatever soviet propagandists want.
If Komsomol stays a purely ideological institution, it would have less reach than Komsomol that provides education alongside indoctrination (And would be more liable to be dissolved should it be decided to be unnecessary).
Not to mention battles for budget between Komsomol and actual schools...
[X]Construction Labor: Through the use of already existing infrastructure, a considerable amount of construction can be done more quickly and cheaply with a labor pool that no longer needs to be recruited from villages. Such a labor pool can also be useful for massive projects to be accomplished and would preserve non-criminal personnel for less risky labor. (30 Resources per turn, Additional Infrastructure dice, Manpower Shortage Reduced)
Also, it would allow us to create sharashkas for imprisoned engineers optimised for productivity.
(Can we declare nuclear physics a pseudoscience, arrest all the nuclear physicists, and use them to build The Bomb ahead of shedule? Along with RBMK reactors?)
On another hand, shifting focus to education is bad because:
a) Sergo is more vulnerable next turn when Stalin calls him up to ask why there's no steel.
b) It would force those seeking better education to be indoctrinated with whatever soviet propagandists want.
If Komsomol stays a purely ideological institution, it would have less reach than Komsomol that provides education alongside indoctrination (And would be more liable to be dissolved should it be decided to be unnecessary).
Not to mention battles for budget between Komsomol and actual schools...
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- Location
- Novi Sad
[X]Focus on Education: The youth's education in the sciences is the nation's highest priority. (-5 Party Influence, 50 progress on Schooling Programs)
[X]Construction Labor: Through the use of already existing infrastructure, a considerable amount of construction can be done more quickly and cheaply with a labor pool that no longer needs to be recruited from villages. Such a labor pool can also be useful for massive projects to be accomplished and would preserve non-criminal personnel for less risky labor. (30 Resources per turn, Additional Infrastructure dice, Manpower Shortage Reduced)
[X]Construction Labor: Through the use of already existing infrastructure, a considerable amount of construction can be done more quickly and cheaply with a labor pool that no longer needs to be recruited from villages. Such a labor pool can also be useful for massive projects to be accomplished and would preserve non-criminal personnel for less risky labor. (30 Resources per turn, Additional Infrastructure dice, Manpower Shortage Reduced)
Aabcehmu
Confusion as a Natural State of Being
- Location
- Chicago, IL
- Pronouns
- Any/All
[X]Focus on the Party: The youth's education in the immortal sciences is the nation's highest priority. (No change)
[X]Construction Labor: Through the use of already existing infrastructure, a considerable amount of construction can be done more quickly and cheaply with a labor pool that no longer needs to be recruited from villages. Such a labor pool can also be useful for massive projects to be accomplished and would preserve non-criminal personnel for less risky labor. (30 Resources per turn, Additional Infrastructure dice, Manpower Shortage Reduced)
[X]Construction Labor: Through the use of already existing infrastructure, a considerable amount of construction can be done more quickly and cheaply with a labor pool that no longer needs to be recruited from villages. Such a labor pool can also be useful for massive projects to be accomplished and would preserve non-criminal personnel for less risky labor. (30 Resources per turn, Additional Infrastructure dice, Manpower Shortage Reduced)
[x]Construction Labor
[X]Focus on Education: The youth's education in the sciences is the nation's highest priority. (-5 Party Influence, 50 progress on Schooling Programs)
The mechanical benefits are poor, but the narrative benefits should be great.
[X]Focus on Education: The youth's education in the sciences is the nation's highest priority. (-5 Party Influence, 50 progress on Schooling Programs)
The mechanical benefits are poor, but the narrative benefits should be great.
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- Location
- va
[X]Focus on Education: The youth's education in the sciences is the nation's highest priority. (-5 Party Influence, 50 progress on Schooling Programs)
[X]Construction Labor: Through the use of already existing infrastructure, a considerable amount of construction can be done more quickly and cheaply with a labor pool that no longer needs to be recruited from villages. Such a labor pool can also be useful for massive projects to be accomplished and would preserve non-criminal personnel for less risky labor. (30 Resources per turn, Additional Infrastructure dice, Manpower Shortage Reduced)
[X]Construction Labor: Through the use of already existing infrastructure, a considerable amount of construction can be done more quickly and cheaply with a labor pool that no longer needs to be recruited from villages. Such a labor pool can also be useful for massive projects to be accomplished and would preserve non-criminal personnel for less risky labor. (30 Resources per turn, Additional Infrastructure dice, Manpower Shortage Reduced)
- Pronouns
- he
[x]Construction Labor
[x]Focus on the Party
[x]Focus on the Party
[X]Focus on Education: The youth's education in the sciences is the nation's highest priority. (-5 Party Influence, 50 progress on Schooling Programs)
[X]Construction Labor: Through the use of already existing infrastructure, a considerable amount of construction can be done more quickly and cheaply with a labor pool that no longer needs to be recruited from villages. Such a labor pool can also be useful for massive projects to be accomplished and would preserve non-criminal personnel for less risky labor. (30 Resources per turn, Additional Infrastructure dice, Manpower Shortage Reduced)
[X]Construction Labor: Through the use of already existing infrastructure, a considerable amount of construction can be done more quickly and cheaply with a labor pool that no longer needs to be recruited from villages. Such a labor pool can also be useful for massive projects to be accomplished and would preserve non-criminal personnel for less risky labor. (30 Resources per turn, Additional Infrastructure dice, Manpower Shortage Reduced)
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[X]Focus on Education: The youth's education in the sciences is the nation's highest priority. (-5 Party Influence, 50 progress on Schooling Programs)
[X]Construction Labor: Through the use of already existing infrastructure, a considerable amount of construction can be done more quickly and cheaply with a labor pool that no longer needs to be recruited from villages. Such a labor pool can also be useful for massive projects to be accomplished and would preserve non-criminal personnel for less risky labor. (30 Resources per turn, Additional Infrastructure dice, Manpower Shortage Reduced)
[X]Construction Labor: Through the use of already existing infrastructure, a considerable amount of construction can be done more quickly and cheaply with a labor pool that no longer needs to be recruited from villages. Such a labor pool can also be useful for massive projects to be accomplished and would preserve non-criminal personnel for less risky labor. (30 Resources per turn, Additional Infrastructure dice, Manpower Shortage Reduced)
Random Member
Gardener of Human Happiness
- Location
- Behind You
Comrade, technocracy is nothing more than the liberal bourgeoisie trying to impose a new type of oligarchy over the people. Supporting such a system in our People's Union makes you a reactionary! To gulag with you!
Nando
they, them
Well, we started in 1928, second half. Five years means 1933, second half - we are in 1930, second half. So, I guess, we'll have six more turns?
There'd been some kind of break down on where we stand at some point, I think? Sadly the Informational post is not up to date...
DkArthas
CAPITAL IS TO BLAME
- Location
- Earth
- Pronouns
- They
[X]Focus on the Party: The youth's education in the immortal sciences is the nation's highest priority. (No change)
[X]Construction Labor: Through the use of already existing infrastructure, a considerable amount of construction can be done more quickly and cheaply with a labor pool that no longer needs to be recruited from villages. Such a labor pool can also be useful for massive projects to be accomplished and would preserve non-criminal personnel for less risky labor. (30 Resources per turn, Additional Infrastructure
Comrades, immortal science is mightier and more useful than any other science. How can we even think about sacrificing that!?
[X]Construction Labor: Through the use of already existing infrastructure, a considerable amount of construction can be done more quickly and cheaply with a labor pool that no longer needs to be recruited from villages. Such a labor pool can also be useful for massive projects to be accomplished and would preserve non-criminal personnel for less risky labor. (30 Resources per turn, Additional Infrastructure
Comrades, immortal science is mightier and more useful than any other science. How can we even think about sacrificing that!?
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- Location
- The United States
- Pronouns
- She/Her
Speaking of which, I just updated it.
[X]Focus on Education: The youth's education in the sciences is the nation's highest priority. (-5 Party Influence, 50 progress on Schooling Programs)
[X]Construction Labor: Through the use of already existing infrastructure, a considerable amount of construction can be done more quickly and cheaply with a labor pool that no longer needs to be recruited from villages. Such a labor pool can also be useful for massive projects to be accomplished and would preserve non-criminal personnel for less risky labor. (30 Resources per turn, Additional Infrastructure dice, Manpower Shortage Reduced)
[X]Construction Labor: Through the use of already existing infrastructure, a considerable amount of construction can be done more quickly and cheaply with a labor pool that no longer needs to be recruited from villages. Such a labor pool can also be useful for massive projects to be accomplished and would preserve non-criminal personnel for less risky labor. (30 Resources per turn, Additional Infrastructure dice, Manpower Shortage Reduced)
- Location
- Austria
RIP.
Well, maybe not literally RIP...although, maybe literally RIP too. Union needs steel and electricity, after all.
