It keeps reappearing, if I understand right our in-character understanding of the state of Soviet politics doesn't automatically update in full anymore and we need to periodically take this action so that Voznesensky knows whats going on and can politic properly. I don't fully understand it myself, but consensus seems to be to take it pretty frequently. Though given our action last turn was the negotiations, one would think The Voz knows how it turned out!
Aside from what others have mentioned, we don't know how long before the Earthmoving project gets certified for general use and we need those coal barges sooner rather than later, so I'm hedging bets and pushing the canal forwards while also starting Augmented Earthmoving.
It's just that to me, almost everything else on the list, including stuff like airports that we almost certainly won't do this turn, is higher priority right now than those metros.
If we want to support the military's lust for aircraft and rockets, we can take these.
I think this is more useful than it seems. Building better transit amongst the CMEA will encourage cultural cohesion, which can be a force stronger than the greatest army.
Don't worry, the additional funds the military recieved didn't come from us so we didn't lose any money.
Eh. My gut feeling is that "more than halfway done" probably means "enough money in the project budget to keep digging subway tunnel for years before the budget runs out." Building a subway is not a quick project.It's more than halfway done though! We can't just leave a project when it's more than halfway done, that's illegal!
Especially since (I believe I remember) projects can degrade if we stop them half-way through. Which hopefully wont be the case here since as simon says it takes a while for them to dig the required stuff out.It's more than halfway done though! We can't just leave a project when it's more than halfway done, that's illegal!
I mean, they can, but this isn't the kind of project that realistically should degrade fast.
I am actually pretty pleased, we are seeing intelligent expansion and introduction of new technology at regular intervals instead of planning to churn out massive volumes of "eh good enough" that will rot in depots. Remember the Soviet government is made up of seriously paranoid old men that are very much not convinced that Uncle Sam is unwilling to see mushroom clouds arcoss Europe if that means the destruction of communism. By keeping our forces competitive and preserving second strike capability they will feel more secure and thus much less likely to escalate things or get belligerent. Ideally this will prevent our bosses from seriously investing in proxy wars as anything other than weapons testing/posturing and any plans in say Cuba.
I wouldn't count on such an experimental tech being useful for a project you need in the short term. Especially as it could easily give you a setback instead if it pollutes the water table instead and you now need to make a new canal section around the old canal section. Nuclear earthmoving is a nice theoretical idea, but perfecting it will probably be challenging.
There is that, though it's worth noting these cities are bigger then OTL, especially Odessa which would be pretty sizeable in this timeline. I think my best estimate for it was that it might even be at 1.5 to 2 mil, in which case a metro would actually be a sensible use of resources. So you probably don't want to let the project languish all that long either, especially as it will only be growing further yet.
*taps head* The capitalists can't seduce our youth into the ways of empty consumerism if rising sea levels sink Disney World first.look, the Burn-rock is completely fine until the environmentalists and hippies start chomping at the bit. Best to keep using it for as long as it's a moral non-issue
hey we would atleast gain more nuke related science.
As I understand it, nuclear earthmoving usually involves detonating the devices far underground and creating a fully underground crater, which in turn subsides and causes surface material to collapse downward in a massive cave-in. In principle, this doesn't involve irradiated debris reaching the surface in the short term, though it leaves pockets of very radioactive material deep underground which causes its own problems.
It can be done in both ways.
