Just updated it
Ah, just like the good old times.
Again the purpose of the quota option is to break up the peasants as fast as possible, that's its entire point.
Eh, that's going too far. It will be only a slight drop and we will easily be able to make up for it. Like it's not going to cause famine or something. Hitting the target is doable with it.
A slight drop can mean the difference between hitting the target and not! And that's assuming we won't have to spend a turn fixing the results of this stupidity that we can't spend on growing more food.
I mean, our gulag population has been steadily increasing all this time despite regular shock projects. And with the incoming purges, I don't think we'll have to worry about not having enough extra laborers.
And here's the thing: will we even have the spare resources to invest in these new stages right away? I think we have more important projects to take care of as is.
Well, that's the thing: experienced NCOs don't materialize out of thin air. To gain experience, they need time and lieutenants do not do the job of sergeants.
No we don't.
Can you further explain what you mean by "break up"? In OTL, by 1933 two thirds of the peasant population had been forced onto collective farms, cultivating 85% of land, but in this quest by 1933 forced collectivisation has effectively been abandoned in favour of breaking up large estates into individual plots, treating peasants effectively as agricultural workers, sparing the majority of the kulaks, and encouraging collectivisation through voluntary and educational means. Quotas could also come in varying different forms and methods of application. Given that we've not had a mass forced collectivisation having occurred over a short period of time in this quest, a lot of the agricultural sector should still be individual plots which could be taxed by maintaining the "Ural-Siberian" method of village taxation which actually favours the poorer peasantry by spreading out the burden to richer peasants with more land - the rich peasants complain and get punished for resisting but unlike forced collectivisation it didn't effect everyone in the countryside as badly.
So the purpose of the quotas would be to free up "volunteers" for other projects that you are currently undertaking. As the voluntary and educational flood has been judged far too slow by most of the people, and instead of the breakup alone, the quest went to alternative methods of organization. See the cooperatives and new towns. In this case, the issue is that the planners are very much seeing constant delays in peasants moving over, creating issues in the plan. Thus, comes the idea suggested by the party to just ramp the quotas to reasonable ones for the mechanized agriculture, and apply them per peasant. In effect rapidly shifting the state of farming.
The purpose of the reform would be to in effect replace the bulk of the conscripts with a steadily expanding pool of experienced NCOs. Like, the point of the reform is to keep on the NCO's that are trained in the academy for a further massive ramp-up of the military. Think Weimar Germany for what it would look like.
