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Attempting to Fulfill the Plan MNKh Edition

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Behold, this is what the proletariat is capable of when freed from the shackles of capitalism! Does it not bring tears to your eyes, comrades?
 
[X] Plan We Don't Know What We're Doing
Infrastructure (3 dice)
-[X]Telegraph Networking
--1 Infrastructure die (5 resources)
-[X]Rail Connections to Planned/Closed City Sites
--2 Infrastructure dice (20 resources)
Heavy Industry (4 Dice)
-[X]Donbas Coal Basin Mine Expansion(Stage 1)
--4 Heavy Industry dice, 1 Free die (50 resources)
Light and Chemical Industry (3 Dice)
-[X]Baku Oil Extraction(Step 1)
--1 Light and Chemical Industry die (10 resources)
-[X]Baku Oil Refineries(Step 1)
--2 Light and Chemical Industry dice (30 resources)
Agriculture (3 Dice)
-[X]Creation of State Agricultural Academies
--1 Agriculture die (5 resources)
-[X]Creation of new Bureaus of Agriculture (Apolitical)
--2 Agriculture dice
Services (3 Dice)
-[X]Start of the Closed City Program
--2 Services dice (20 resources)
-[X]Creation of new Party Universities
--1 Services die (10 resources)
-[X]Formation of an Official Work-Training Program
--1 Free die (5 resources)
Bureaucracy (1 die)
-[X]Appoint a New Industrial Council(Scientific)
--1 Bureaucracy die
-[X]Expand the Department Staff
--1 Free die
Total cost: 155
 
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10ebbor10 said:
2 dice for a 50 ooint project. Isn't that overkill?
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[]Creation of new Bureaus of Agriculture (Apolitical): Creating a new system of inspectors and analysts to develop the agricultural sphere is critical to ensure that the party's directives are followed. However, it would be a waste of such an organization to be staffed by members unwilling to report accurately. Such a plan is not that popular with the party, but honest reporting should be worth its gold weight. (-15 Party Influence upon completion, (0/50))
-[] 2 Agriculture Dice
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Blackstar said:
[]Creation of new Bureaus of Agriculture (Apolitical): Creating a new system of inspectors and analysts to develop the agricultural sphere is critical to ensure that the party's directives are followed. However, it would be a waste of such an organization to be staffed by members unwilling to report accurately. Such a plan is not that popular with the party, but honest reporting should be worth its gold weight. (-15 Party Influence upon completion, (10/50))

-An issue is rapidly found when attempting to recruit personnel for the Bureaus; it is nearly impossible to find qualified individuals willing to work a near thankless job to inspect crops. It's not prestigious or that attractive to multiple scientists with refusals issued out from multiple respected ones. There are still some prominent candidates, but far from enough to properly create the organization.
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No. Dice can fuck us severely over.

Besides, there are no real negative consequences to overkilling a project. :V
 
Comrades, let me make a quick argument for why you should pick Plan We Don't Know What We're Doing over Plan Stay the Course.

Stay the Course spends 4 Dice on Rail Stock, but this is suboptimal. For starters, building Locomotive Plants first would make this action cheaper. Secondly, the Rail Connections to the Closed City Locations are a much more important right now, as we've already started construction on those.

Replacing Buildup of Railstock with the Rail Connections also frees up 2 Free Dice, which I then use for starting a Work-Training Program, vital for ensuring we have actually (semi-)qualified workers for our projects, and Expanding our Department Staff to increase the efficiency of future turns.
 
Building the loco plants first will make the stock cheaper, this is true, but it will also mean we continue to have no trains while trying to industrialize which is disastrous. I don't think we need to build spur lines off into the Siberian wastes for cities that won't be built for years to contain intellectuals that don't exist yet, when the current rail lines connecting all our current infrastructure are already starved for stock. Uralmash can make all the lathes in the world, the Donbas can dig up all the coal in the world, Baku can refine all the fuel in the world, and every gram of it is utterly useless if we can't get it where it's going. I stand by my choice to build trains now, the locomotive plants probably won't pay for themselves until years in the future (possibly not even in this Plan) and we need a shot in the arm for our logistical network now.

One of the major historical challenges of the real 5 Year Plans was not having enough rolling stock to move things where they were needed, people starved while grain sat in warehouses 2000km away unable to be moved to them and all that. We don't even have to import the full locomotives, we can build them mostly domestic and just need some foreign finishing touches, as an emergency measure to unparalyze our logistical network I think it's worth the investment this first round. Later we can build the plants and continue to expand our domestic train production because much like coal there's no such thing as too many trains, but I'm convinced we need this emergency shot now.

Also I expect just about every major new capital project will be improved or tweaked somehow by the Industrial Council, I don't want to break ground on locomotive plants that they turn around and declare obsolete/inefficient/horribly designed as soon as the nerds settle in. Building old coal locomotives in the already existing plants will definitely be mildly obsolete but they will work and they will match the rest of the existing stock and infrastructure, providing a solid foundation to build a more modern rail system off of.
 
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Vote Called for [X] Plan We Don't Know What We're Doing time for 20 dice.
Blackstar threw 10 100-faced dice. Reason: Glory to the Worker Total: 531
80 80 21 21 5 5 99 99 15 15 98 98 39 39 93 93 2 2 79 79
Blackstar threw 10 100-faced dice. Reason: Glory to the Worker Total: 485
18 18 80 80 20 20 27 27 46 46 64 64 14 14 48 48 97 97 71 71
 
Infrastructure (3 dice)
-[X]Telegraph Networking : 80 - 3 + 14 / 40
-[X]Rail Connections to Planned/Closed City Sites : 21 + 5 - 3 - 3/ 50
Heavy Industry (4 Dice)
-[X]Donbas Coal Basin Mine Expansion(Stage 1) 99+15+98+39+ 93 - 15 / 250
Light and Chemical Industry (3 Dice)
-[X]Baku Oil Extraction(Step 1) 2 - 4 + 72 / 100
-[X]Baku Oil Refineries(Step 1) 79 + 18 - 7 + 3 / 100
Agriculture (3 Dice)
-[X]Creation of State Agricultural Academies 80 - 3 + 37 / 150
-[X]Creation of new Bureaus of Agriculture (Apolitical) 20 + 27 + 10 -7/ 50
Services (3 Dice)
-[X]Start of the Closed City Program 46 + 64 - 6/150
-[X]Creation of new Party Universities 14 - 3+ 74 / 100
-[X]Formation of an Official Work-Training Program 48 - 3 / 100
Bureaucracy (1 die)
-[X]Appoint a New Industrial Council(Scientific) 97 - 3 DC 20
-[X]Expand the Department Staff 71 - 3 DC 20
 
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I see a pattern emerging here: we tend to either succeed completely, or fail utterly. Comrade Ordonikidze is a man of extremes.

o7
 
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