[X][BASE] SO 13. Trailing of Tamure, SO 13 offers intriguing naval maneuver training opportunities thanks to the complex gravitational interactions seven stars around a black hole create. Furthermore, likely as a quirk of its formation, the system is very isolated from even its nearest neighbors, making it much easier to enforce security. After all, it being convenient to nothing means that the only people there are people with reason to be there. If the quarians are going to base out of your territory, they might as well keep sharp, and your own forces will benefit as well.
[X][FDO] Virani makes good points regarding research outposts, and communicating your priorities to subordinates is not a new idea. Durrahe can funnel project requests to her via Lissa.
The prpblem with letting the areas of responsibility bloat is that it may well lead to space Trade Company - a shitshow of corruption and exploitation with no oversight.
Our MoF was quite corrupted too before we cleaned house, and its cleanness hinges, I am afraid, on threat of repeat performance. Colonies are farther away and thus are liable to havr lesser overaight.
The prpblem with letting the areas of responsibility bloat is that it may well lead to space Trade Company - a shitshow of corruption and exploitation with no oversight.
It's a government agency, not a private one.
We CAN fire the head at will, and the Ministry of Intrigue has oversight.
Seriously, our War Minister commands 400 million ground troops and 2 battle fleets across three clusters. His budget regularly tops 100k in a turn; once we implement Fleet Doctrine, it goes above it permanently, once you add the ~40-50k Income invested in shipyards to the 50k necessary to maintain Beshkarian Fleet Doctrine.
Similarly, we have Learning who controls health, education and ALL our RnD, which is getting 400k thrown at just medical education over 8 years.
Nothing about bloat or empire building.
But giving a competent agency 70k and responsibility to build stuff that they promptly turn over to other Ministries, and it's an issue? Why?
Is it because she's not deferential?
We aren't Kim Jong Un; we don't need to be flattered by everyone working for us.
Our MoF was quite corrupted too before we cleaned house, and its cleanness hinges, I am afraid, on threat of repeat performance. Colonies are farther away and thus are liable to havr lesser overaight.
No it doesn't.
Unless you're arguing that our Minister of Finance doesn't know her job or the people she hired.
Option 4 says we integrate the FDO into planning for colonies, not that we hand over responsibility for colonies to them. It cuts time and effort for this, and those colonies once built still come under the Ministry of Stewardship until they're self-sustaining.
What exactly is wrong with this?
HOW? She does not keep control of ANYTHING she builds.
Military Outposts go to Ministry of War, RnD Outposts to Ministry of Science, New Colonies to Ministry of Stewardship along with the mines once they are built. So what empire exactly are people talking about?
[X][BASE] Now directly neighboring your space with the exploitation of Tarramir, SO 31 is valuable, not merely for the outer-system gas giants suitable for drive discharges and easily accessible to incoming craft, not merely for the low-gravity inner-system planet ideal for ground-based shipyards for anything up to and including heavy cruisers, not merely for the fact that its crust is as hard as nature makes rock and is all but impervious to orbital bombardment -- it also serves as an iron-clad anchor for the SO 28 microcluster, which Virani has begun to finally exploit.
[X][FDO] Virani makes good points regarding research outposts, and communicating your priorities to subordinates is not a new idea. Durrahe can funnel project requests to her via Lissa.
1 That they and their supporters (much reduced) desire a clear, legally-binding resolution removing Virmire from Citadel administration.
2 That they wish for there to be formal reparations to Virmire from the Citadel.
3 That following the war, they want Virmire to have the right to claim, as the foundation of their new state, the territory they will be fighting to secure -- and, realistically and necessarily, develop.
1 and 3 are easy. The former is just making de facto de jure and the latter is a simple consequence of being a sovereign nation. 2 however… that is going to be an issue. There is a big difference between severing ties with a larger polity and trying to get that polity to pay for the privilege of you severing ties.
[X][BASE] Now directly neighboring your space with the exploitation of Tarramir, SO 31 is valuable, not merely for the outer-system gas giants suitable for drive discharges and easily accessible to incoming craft, not merely for the low-gravity inner-system planet ideal for ground-based shipyards for anything up to and including heavy cruisers, not merely for the fact that its crust is as hard as nature makes rock and is all but impervious to orbital bombardment -- it also serves as an iron-clad anchor for the SO 28 microcluster, which Virani has begun to finally exploit.
[X][FDO] While giving the FDO total authority over full colonies would be a horrid mangling of their mission, they have proven their talent at the colonist selection process, in their own operations and in your preparations to settle the prospect in Assilia. In addition to the above, also integrate the Office into the selection process for new colonies as a matter of course.
It's a government agency, not a private one.
We CAN fire the head at will, and the Ministry of Intrigue has oversight.
Seriously, our War Minister commands 400 million ground troops and 2 battle fleets across three clusters. His budget regularly tops 100k in a turn; once we implement Fleet Doctrine, it goes above it permanently, once you add the ~40-50k Income invested in shipyards to the 50k necessary to maintain Beshkarian Fleet Doctrine.
Similarly, we have Learning who controls health, education and ALL our RnD, which is getting 400k thrown at just medical education over 8 years.
Nothing about bloat or empire building.
But giving a competent agency 70k and responsibility to build stuff that they promptly turn over to other Ministries, and it's an issue? Why?
Is it because she's not deferential?
We aren't Kim Jong Un; we don't need to be flattered by everyone working for us.
Mostly because it's farther away from us - it's harder to make a sudden inspection of colonies than it is to make a sudden inspection of accounts of clerks in MoF.
It was pointed out by Poptart a while ago that too distant colony with too much power would very soon start asking questions like "what have Virmire ever done to us?". It is reasonable thus to assume that the distance is a factor in how, so to say, loyalty is calculated.
Oh, seems I chose an exciting time to binge this quest.
[X][BASE] Now directly neighboring your space with the exploitation of Tarramir, SO 31 is valuable, not merely for the outer-system gas giants suitable for drive discharges and easily accessible to incoming craft, not merely for the low-gravity inner-system planet ideal for ground-based shipyards for anything up to and including heavy cruisers, not merely for the fact that its crust is as hard as nature makes rock and is all but impervious to orbital bombardment -- it also serves as an iron-clad anchor for the SO 28 microcluster, which Virani has begun to finally exploit.
[X][FDO] While giving the FDO total authority over full colonies would be a horrid mangling of their mission, they have proven their talent at the colonist selection process, in their own operations and in your preparations to settle the prospect in Assilia. In addition to the above, also integrate the Office into the selection process for new colonies as a matter of course.
If we want Vermire to become the capital of an empire, even a small one, we need to not be micromanaging every new orbital development, wasting valuable Ministry actions in the process. The FDO's job is literally to do that for us. They exist specifically so we can delegate stuff to them, and they've been doing a good job of it so far. Delegating more work to them is a logical extension of their original purpose and their recently increased budget.
That said, I am somewhat concerned. Virani expects us to give her Science outposts along with the budget and presumably did so under the assumption that the extended budget would be enough to cover her extended duties, but adding Military Stations to her list of responsibilities may stretch even her new budget.
On the other hand, if that does turn out to be the case... well, we have a lot more money than we do actions, betul?
Mostly because it's farther away from us - it's harder to make a sudden inspection of colonies than it is to make a sudden inspection of accounts of clerks in MoF.
The FDO is based on Virmire. It's financial ledgers are on Virmire.
It's workers are from Virmire. The contractors who supply it's equipment are headquartered in Virmire, their industry is mostly in the Virmire system. and All our shipyards build their ships in Virmire.
There is literally no way to avoid oversight. Even the furthest areas are at worst a couple days away.
It would be really ironic to mock the Lystheni for irrational paranoia crippling their economy and military, and to fall prey to it ourselves.
It was pointed out by Poptart a while ago that too distant colony with too much power would very soon start asking questions like "what have Virmire ever done to us?". It is reasonable thus to assume that the distance is a factor in how, so to say, loyalty is calculated.
If we didn't have sufficient links to the place.
This was something we literally went out of our way to avoid when we told the FDO to prioritize infrastructure building, so all points of our nation are easily, readily connected to the rest of it.
Why is the FDO any less trustworthy than the Explorer Corps who will be operating well beyond known territory, or the War Ministry which patrols the Kepler Verge, or the Learning Ministry which has responsibility for RnD Outposts?
Adhoc vote count started by uju32 on Feb 11, 2018 at 7:15 AM, finished with 59 posts and 20 votes.
[X]Plan Bodyshop
-[X]Martial 1: Military Outposts: 40,000: DC 26 - Minister 11 = DC15
-[X]Martial 2: Take Over The Explorer Corps: 20,000: DC16 - Minister 11 = DC5
-[X]Diplomacy 1: PR, Always PR: 15,000: DC33 - Minister 11 = DC22
-[X]Diplomacy 2: Approach The Secessionists: 15,000: DC29 - Minister 11 = DC18
-[X]Stewardship 1: Expand The FDO: -35,000 Income: DC11 - Minister 10 = DC1
-[X]Stewardship 2: Rebalance Food Production: 30,000: DC21 - Minister 10 = DC11
-[X]Intrigue 1: Databanks: 25,000: DC31 - Minister 12= DC19
-[X]Intrigue 2: Digging For Receipts: 32,000: DC56 - Minister 12= DC44
-[X]Learning 1: Emergency Response: 50,000: DC51 - Minister 11= DC40
-[X]Learning 2: Dispense The Fun Coupons [Already costed into income]
-[X]Personal 1: Personal Attention Military Outposts [Martial 24]
-[X]Personal 2: Personal Attention Emergency Response [Learning 17]
-[X]Personal 3: Commit Hero: Kurik, Intrigue, Databanks [Kurik: Intrigue 15]
[X][BASE] Now directly neighboring your space with the exploitation of Tarramir, SO 31 is valuable, not merely for the outer-system gas giants suitable for drive discharges and easily accessible to incoming craft, not merely for the low-gravity inner-system planet ideal for ground-based shipyards for anything up to and including heavy cruisers, not merely for the fact that its crust is as hard as nature makes rock and is all but impervious to orbital bombardment -- it also serves as an iron-clad anchor for the SO 28 microcluster, which Virani has begun to finally exploit.
[X][FDO] Virani makes good points regarding research outposts, and communicating your priorities to subordinates is not a new idea. Durrahe can funnel project requests to her via Lissa.
[X][BASE] SO 13. Trailing of Tamure, SO 13 offers intriguing naval maneuver training opportunities thanks to the complex gravitational interactions seven stars around a black hole create. Furthermore, likely as a quirk of its formation, the system is very isolated from even its nearest neighbors, making it much easier to enforce security. After all, it being convenient to nothing means that the only people there are people with reason to be there. If the quarians are going to base out of your territory, they might as well keep sharp, and your own forces will benefit as well.
[X][FDO] While giving the FDO total authority over full colonies would be a horrid mangling of their mission, they have proven their talent at the colonist selection process, in their own operations and in your preparations to settle the prospect in Assilia. In addition to the above, also integrate the Office into the selection process for new colonies as a matter of course.
[X][BASE] Now directly neighboring your space with the exploitation of Tarramir, SO 31 is valuable, not merely for the outer-system gas giants suitable for drive discharges and easily accessible to incoming craft, not merely for the low-gravity inner-system planet ideal for ground-based shipyards for anything up to and including heavy cruisers, not merely for the fact that its crust is as hard as nature makes rock and is all but impervious to orbital bombardment -- it also serves as an iron-clad anchor for the SO 28 microcluster, which Virani has begun to finally exploit.
[X][FDO] While giving the FDO total authority over full colonies would be a horrid mangling of their mission, they have proven their talent at the colonist selection process, in their own operations and in your preparations to settle the prospect in Assilia. In addition to the above, also integrate the Office into the selection process for new colonies as a matter of course.
HOW? She does not keep control of ANYTHING she builds.
Military Outposts go to Ministry of War, RnD Outposts to Ministry of Science, New Colonies to Ministry of Stewardship along with the mines once they are built. So what empire exactly are people talking about?
Why is the FDO any less trustworthy than the Explorer Corps who will be operating well beyond known territory, or the War Ministry which patrols the Kepler Verge, or the Learning Ministry which has responsibility for RnD Outposts?
[X][BASE] Now directly neighboring your space with the exploitation of Tarramir, SO 31 is valuable, not merely for the outer-system gas giants suitable for drive discharges and easily accessible to incoming craft, not merely for the low-gravity inner-system planet ideal for ground-based shipyards for anything up to and including heavy cruisers, not merely for the fact that its crust is as hard as nature makes rock and is all but impervious to orbital bombardment -- it also serves as an iron-clad anchor for the SO 28 microcluster, which Virani has begun to finally exploit.
[X][FDO] While giving the FDO total authority over full colonies would be a horrid mangling of their mission, they have proven their talent at the colonist selection process, in their own operations and in your preparations to settle the prospect in Assilia. In addition to the above, also integrate the Office into the selection process for new colonies as a matter of course.
I find uju's arguments more potent than the paranoid fear ones.
[X][BASE] Now directly neighboring your space with the exploitation of Tarramir, SO 31 is valuable, not merely for the outer-system gas giants suitable for drive discharges and easily accessible to incoming craft, not merely for the low-gravity inner-system planet ideal for ground-based shipyards for anything up to and including heavy cruisers, not merely for the fact that its crust is as hard as nature makes rock and is all but impervious to orbital bombardment -- it also serves as an iron-clad anchor for the SO 28 microcluster, which Virani has begun to finally exploit.
[X][FDO] While giving the FDO total authority over full colonies would be a horrid mangling of their mission, they have proven their talent at the colonist selection process, in their own operations and in your preparations to settle the prospect in Assilia. In addition to the above, also integrate the Office into the selection process for new colonies as a matter of course.
Giving FDO so much power is somewhat risky...
But I see it as giving them an opportunity at best, and enough rope to hang themselves at worst.
We should just audit them heavily in three turns or so, to hopefully see our trust verified.
The MoF was corrupt specifically because the PM allowed it to be, and installed a Finance Minister who herself led the corruption effort.
There has been no indication, or accusation, of corruption on the part of any of our government agencies since we fumigated.
And we give them significantly larger amounts of money to play around with on a yearly basis than we had as our initial yearly budget at the start of this quest.
Again, if you have any actual suggestion that the lady or her agency is corrupt, say so. Point to the evidence.
Hell, provide reasonable suspicion, so we can sic Shurna on them; in an economy like ours, if money is going missing, we'll notice, even if we don't know how much. There is a total war going on, and there's no Switzerland to run or ship ill-gotten gains to.
We're at the point where people are suggesting going full Lystheni as a governmental strategy.
Right after the GM pointedly showed us the consequences of this on the efficiency of the Lystheni. It's a government, not a personal fiefdom; we aren't supposed to micromanage everything, or we wouldn't have Ministers. Trust is necessary.
We automated shipyards a while ago, remember?
We just automated Fun Coupons for the next five years, and we automated debt repayment 8 or 9 years ago. None of that has fallen prey to corruption; why would this?
Virani, leader of the FDO is EXPLICITLY not kissing our feet.
She does her job, and has done it excellently since
FDO Report
This year, contrary to your expectations, Director Virani did not build a mining colony and bank the rest of her budget. Instead, while she did colonize SO 30 as the system of Tarramir, she spent the rest on touching up the emptied Prothean depot in Kerchak, saving you a fair amount on building one yourself once you really start developing SO 28. You see the logic, even if the ever-increasing crimp in the budget still makes you nervous.
Still, though, her report to you has a distinctly celebratory tone; Tarramir is one of the furthest coreward systems in the SO 28 microcluster, and with the establishment of the mining stations there, you've officially broken into the microcluster! It'll be a long time before you really start drawing out the wealth in that region, but it's still a step forward.
And then she has the nerve to bitch at you for putting the pressure on her to shore up your income in the face of your expenses. And then she reiterates her request for additional funding. You have to laugh at that. You're starting to like this woman.
And hey, you think you managed to pull the economy out of its death spiral this year well enough.+22,000 yearly income, Prothean depot in Kerchak refurbished.
We neither need, nor want, shrinking violets in these roles.
We want tough, assertive people who will tell us when they need more resources, or see opportunities that can be exploited. All of which is what she's been doing.
You may forget, but our very first cabinet meeting came down to almost a barfight, with our War Minister squabbling for more funding with our Learning and Diplomacy Minsters. People who won't fight for their departments are of no use to us.
You open the door to the conference room and stride in.
Your entrance goes unnoticed. Those within are too busy screaming at each other.
"I'm not letting you slash the procurement budget because you want to buy some painkillers!"
You sigh quietly, sidling over to your seat at the head of the table and starting to take out your notes. The batarian shouting is Toral K'Sharr, your newly-appointed Minister of War. Toral was one of your aides in the military for years, and was the natural choice for Minister in the wake of your coup.
The salarian he's shouting at is Dullahe Korun, your Minister of the Sciences. Korun bristles back at your old subordinate, crossing his arms. "I'm not asking for your budget, Minister! And it's hardly something as simple as painkillers. The Rachni Plague might be under control, but it's a clear indication that we need to update our medical infrastructure! If we have people dying of disease, your navy will wither!"
"Let's just all calm down a moment, please," says one of the other two asari in the room. "Nobody is demanding a slice of anybody else's budget." Your Minister of Relations, Marae Dantius, leans forward over the table, making sure to look them both in the eye. "We all just want to do our jobs as well as we can-"
"Don't patronize me!" snaps K'Sharr. "Like it or not, there's only so much to go around! My budget is stretched as it is; I need more, not less! Somebody has to take a cut, and it can't be me. The navy has less than half the ships it had last year! We need to be expanding production; tripling it!"
Lissa S'Voi is your oldest friend and your Minister of Finance. Lissa came with you on your Maidenhood, and followed along when you declared your intention to settle on Virmire. Honestly, she's never been much of a fighter -- she handled your money. But she's always been your loyal companion, and you can't think of anybody you'd rather have with you.
She leans forward now, slapping the table. "We can't afford to triple production. Forget getting slices of somebody else's budget; the whole government doesn't have the resources on hand for that, not if we want to keep running the sewers. And how do you suggest we get ahold of the shipyards for that kind of manufacturing? I would figure that you at least would know our limitations there."
And with that, chaos erupts once more, everybody screaming at the top of their lungs as tempers run wild.
You rest your head on your fist, sighing. You're supposed to run this? Maybe you were too hard on the last PM. Nobody's even noticed you yet.
Preferably with less shouting, but if that's necessary*shrug*
Adhoc vote count started by uju32 on Feb 11, 2018 at 7:36 AM, finished with 64 posts and 23 votes.
[X]Plan Bodyshop
-[X]Martial 1: Military Outposts: 40,000: DC 26 - Minister 11 = DC15
-[X]Martial 2: Take Over The Explorer Corps: 20,000: DC16 - Minister 11 = DC5
-[X]Diplomacy 1: PR, Always PR: 15,000: DC33 - Minister 11 = DC22
-[X]Diplomacy 2: Approach The Secessionists: 15,000: DC29 - Minister 11 = DC18
-[X]Stewardship 1: Expand The FDO: -35,000 Income: DC11 - Minister 10 = DC1
-[X]Stewardship 2: Rebalance Food Production: 30,000: DC21 - Minister 10 = DC11
-[X]Intrigue 1: Databanks: 25,000: DC31 - Minister 12= DC19
-[X]Intrigue 2: Digging For Receipts: 32,000: DC56 - Minister 12= DC44
-[X]Learning 1: Emergency Response: 50,000: DC51 - Minister 11= DC40
-[X]Learning 2: Dispense The Fun Coupons [Already costed into income]
-[X]Personal 1: Personal Attention Military Outposts [Martial 24]
-[X]Personal 2: Personal Attention Emergency Response [Learning 17]
-[X]Personal 3: Commit Hero: Kurik, Intrigue, Databanks [Kurik: Intrigue 15]
[X][BASE] Now directly neighboring your space with the exploitation of Tarramir, SO 31 is valuable, not merely for the outer-system gas giants suitable for drive discharges and easily accessible to incoming craft, not merely for the low-gravity inner-system planet ideal for ground-based shipyards for anything up to and including heavy cruisers, not merely for the fact that its crust is as hard as nature makes rock and is all but impervious to orbital bombardment -- it also serves as an iron-clad anchor for the SO 28 microcluster, which Virani has begun to finally exploit.
[X][FDO] While giving the FDO total authority over full colonies would be a horrid mangling of their mission, they have proven their talent at the colonist selection process, in their own operations and in your preparations to settle the prospect in Assilia. In addition to the above, also integrate the Office into the selection process for new colonies as a matter of course.
[X][BASE] SO 13. Trailing of Tamure, SO 13 offers intriguing naval maneuver training opportunities thanks to the complex gravitational interactions seven stars around a black hole create. Furthermore, likely as a quirk of its formation, the system is very isolated from even its nearest neighbors, making it much easier to enforce security. After all, it being convenient to nothing means that the only people there are people with reason to be there. If the quarians are going to base out of your territory, they might as well keep sharp, and your own forces will benefit as well.
[X][FDO] Virani makes good points regarding research outposts, and communicating your priorities to subordinates is not a new idea. Durrahe can funnel project requests to her via Lissa.
[X][BASE] Now directly neighboring your space with the exploitation of Tarramir, SO 31 is valuable, not merely for the outer-system gas giants suitable for drive discharges and easily accessible to incoming craft, not merely for the low-gravity inner-system planet ideal for ground-based shipyards for anything up to and including heavy cruisers, not merely for the fact that its crust is as hard as nature makes rock and is all but impervious to orbital bombardment -- it also serves as an iron-clad anchor for the SO 28 microcluster, which Virani has begun to finally exploit.
[X][FDO] While giving the FDO total authority over full colonies would be a horrid mangling of their mission, they have proven their talent at the colonist selection process, in their own operations and in your preparations to settle the prospect in Assilia. In addition to the above, also integrate the Office into the selection process for new colonies as a matter of course.
[X][BASE] SO 13. Trailing of Tamure, SO 13 offers intriguing naval maneuver training opportunities thanks to the complex gravitational interactions seven stars around a black hole create. Furthermore, likely as a quirk of its formation, the system is very isolated from even its nearest neighbors, making it much easier to enforce security. After all, it being convenient to nothing means that the only people there are people with reason to be there. If the quarians are going to base out of your territory, they might as well keep sharp, and your own forces will benefit as well.
[X][FDO] Virani makes good points regarding research outposts, and communicating your priorities to subordinates is not a new idea. Durrahe can funnel project requests to her via Lissa.
[X][BASE] Now directly neighboring your space with the exploitation of Tarramir, SO 31 is valuable, not merely for the outer-system gas giants suitable for drive discharges and easily accessible to incoming craft, not merely for the low-gravity inner-system planet ideal for ground-based shipyards for anything up to and including heavy cruisers, not merely for the fact that its crust is as hard as nature makes rock and is all but impervious to orbital bombardment -- it also serves as an iron-clad anchor for the SO 28 microcluster, which Virani has begun to finally exploit.
[X][FDO] While giving the FDO total authority over full colonies would be a horrid mangling of their mission, they have proven their talent at the colonist selection process, in their own operations and in your preparations to settle the prospect in Assilia. In addition to the above, also integrate the Office into the selection process for new colonies as a matter of course.
[X][BASE] SO 13. Trailing of Tamure, SO 13 offers intriguing naval maneuver training opportunities thanks to the complex gravitational interactions seven stars around a black hole create. Furthermore, likely as a quirk of its formation, the system is very isolated from even its nearest neighbors, making it much easier to enforce security. After all, it being convenient to nothing means that the only people there are people with reason to be there. If the quarians are going to base out of your territory, they might as well keep sharp, and your own forces will benefit as well.
[X][FDO] Virani makes good points regarding research outposts, and communicating your priorities to subordinates is not a new idea. Durrahe can funnel project requests to her via Lissa.
[X][BASE] Now directly neighboring your space with the exploitation of Tarramir, SO 31 is valuable, not merely for the outer-system gas giants suitable for drive discharges and easily accessible to incoming craft, not merely for the low-gravity inner-system planet ideal for ground-based shipyards for anything up to and including heavy cruisers, not merely for the fact that its crust is as hard as nature makes rock and is all but impervious to orbital bombardment -- it also serves as an iron-clad anchor for the SO 28 microcluster, which Virani has begun to finally exploit.
[X][FDO] While giving the FDO total authority over full colonies would be a horrid mangling of their mission, they have proven their talent at the colonist selection process, in their own operations and in your preparations to settle the prospect in Assilia. In addition to the above, also integrate the Office into the selection process for new colonies as a matter of course.
[X][BASE] Now directly neighboring your space with the exploitation of Tarramir, SO 31 is valuable, not merely for the outer-system gas giants suitable for drive discharges and easily accessible to incoming craft, not merely for the low-gravity inner-system planet ideal for ground-based shipyards for anything up to and including heavy cruisers, not merely for the fact that its crust is as hard as nature makes rock and is all but impervious to orbital bombardment -- it also serves as an iron-clad anchor for the SO 28 microcluster, which Virani has begun to finally exploit.
[X][FDO] While giving the FDO total authority over full colonies would be a horrid mangling of their mission, they have proven their talent at the colonist selection process, in their own operations and in your preparations to settle the prospect in Assilia. In addition to the above, also integrate the Office into the selection process for new colonies as a matter of course.
Honestly, my main concern with expanding the FDOs duties so much is that it risks diluting the original purpose, which was to improve our budget. If the FDO's busy building military outposts or research stations, they're not busy building mining operations.
Honestly, my main concern with expanding the FDOs duties so much is that it risks diluting the original purpose, which was to improve our budget. If the FDO's busy building military outposts or research stations, they're not busy building mining operations.
With their expanded budget, there's nothing to stop them from simultaneously continuing to build mining outposts while also building research/military outposts and improving orbital infrastructure.
With their expanded budget, there's nothing to stop them from simultaneously continuing to build mining outposts while also building research/military outposts and improving orbital infrastructure.
Which doesn't change the fact that every military/science station built is one less mining post built in the same time. They could build 1 mining and 1 other station, yes, but they could also be building 2 mining stations instead.
Which doesn't change the fact that every military/science station built is one less mining post built in the same time. They could build 1 mining and 1 other station, yes, but they could also be building 2 mining stations instead.
You see, that is the beauty of this.
As of this moment we have quite enough money. Director knows this, and she will be setting up research outposts, supply depots, military bases and the like.
But in the future, when we will need every scrap of income, she will be setting up the most profitable ventures off the chains of military bases, research outposts and supply depots.
That way, we get both additional income and long-term bonuses of all the not strictly profitable ventures that she sets up.
But if we limit her to mining only... Yes, she will get us a bit more income.
Yet we will have to micromanage all the outposts or go without... Meaning suffering long-term in everything but our coffers relative to first scenario.
