With the creation of the Special Units & casualties suffered our general standing military has grown anemic.
It's my hope next down time our budget can be spent replenishing troops, including a naval element. That is of course predicated on our income.
I'm frankly uncertain as to how to generate a reliable income stream besides growing manufacturing ... Didn't Tacit vs the world develop something mod wise to squeeze more income out of kaiju harvesting?
Any ideas? Outposts will gradually increase our base income now Homeland is a thing.
Looking for some creative ideas for inclusion down the road.
Yep. Got a nice City Aug that increases what we can retrieve from the corpses. Nice modifier, too.
Going into less consistent territory, looting ruins, tracking down and killing Kaiju, and clearing and harvesting Nests are excellent for augmenting income. Obviously, those are somewhat limited, both in number, and in how many we can feasibly do without needing to patch our Jaegers up or build new units. It's mostly good for when you're really well established, or in dire need of resources.
Moving on, mining outposts are an obvious source of income. Not sure about the quality of the ores and the like in the Atlanta area, but it wouldn't be hard to find out. Oceanic mining seems vulnerable to Deep One attacks, unfortunately.
Recycling plants are an idea, I suppose. And you can get ores and mineral-rich silt at the mouths of rivers. Not a bad place to filter for plastic trash, either. Hell, you might even get some exotic stuff due to runoff from Kaiju and the like. It'd probably be pretty low-level, though.
Getting creative, finding something with regenerative abilties, trapping it, and steadily slicing bits off seems like an idea. Or splicing it's abilities into plants, then farming them, if food is an issue. Hell, just cultivating pockets of Anteverse plants might work. Of course, that'd also be really dangerous.
The council would need to setup a reserve of non-spendable resources (preferably valued metals that trade partners would have an interest in. Ie. Platinum, Gold, or Silver) of a sizable investment chunk (5,000 R at your current sphere of influence, +2,500 additional growth step) and mint or print your currency at an additional expense 200 r currently, +100 r each growth step).
Gold, silver, and platinum all have several industrial uses. Platinum is a commonly-used catalyst and incredibly good at transferring heat, for instance. I could see all three going into building really advanced stuff, like Jaegers, in some amounts.
So minting coinage based off a Savannah Reserve Bank backed by precious metals?
Cool, I think
@cokerpilot may have struck us a blow versus Big 'C' & the cultists.
(Sorry coker, was hoping you'd chime in, if I'm stealing your idea please forgive me.)
On all Savannah currency print Elder signs front and back.
That's...quite possibly one of the most brilliant and evil ideas ever conceived. I approve.
[X] Plan military supremacy 2.0
[ X ] support for moar dawgs in special units.
