I totally forgot that this exact issue has a solution (also from motorcycles):
Normally center hub steering ers on the side of being heavier and more complex, but I have a feeling at least part of that is path dependence - everyone is used to forks and all the research goes towards them. I've also got a feeling that our expertise with mech joints would let us go a lot further here in terms of cost and performance than other countries could pull off.
Eh, the first thing I think looking at that is: "How far does that joint actually allow the wheels to turn, and how far can they turn in the first place before they start rubbing against the chain?" I feel like this is another case of what works for bikes might not work as well on cars, since motorcycles and bicycles can also lean into their turns while 4 wheel cars can't (usually).
Well with voting open now I'm going to stick with my plan for the airfields this turn, because completely separate to my misgivings about the skateboards steering system, I'd rather try to have the airfields on line for the big meetup so we can fly as many planes as possible and make our big parade even bigger (and hopefully more effective on the Chinese and Soviet delegations). The Skateboard on the other hand isn't even a vehicle by itself, just the base for one so I don't think we'll be able to show it off as much as we could with our new air force. And we aren't actually making any vehicles with it right now so everything produced is likely just going to sit in a warehouse gathering dust for now.
[X] Plan: An International Forms.
-[X] Infrastructure
--[X] Create New Housing (Helpful)
---[X] Use Large-Scale Energy Efficient Housing (Helpful) (+2 People's Opinion) (+2 Reputation) (Bonus: +1 Popular Desire)
--[X] Improve Medical Infrastructure (Helpful) (+1 People's Opinion) (-3 Reputation)
-[X] Light Industry
--[X] Build Vitamin Supplement Factory (Helpful) (-1 Reputation)
-[X] Heavy Industry
--[X] Construct The 'Dragon Rail'
--[X] Construct A (Iron Tiger Derived) Electronics Factory (+3 Reputation) (Harmful) (Highly Suspicious) (Steel Foundry Needed) (Bonus: +2 Electronics)
-[X] Agri-, And Aquaculture
--[X] Farmer's Councils (-20 Reputation) (Gain Another Faction)
-[X] Military
--[X] Construct An Airfield
--[X] Construct An Airfield
-[X] Social
--[X] Propagandize An Achievement (Helpful) (+2 People's Opinion)
---[X] The 'Dragon Rail'
-[X] Political
--[X] Leader Pushed Developments
---[X] Clean Out The Statistics Bureau: The Special Tasks Group (???) (Bonus: +1 Spy Action?)
--[X] Oversee The USSR-CCP Talks
--[X] Armed Solidarity (+7 Reputation) (+5 People's Opinion) (International (Read: West) Anger) (Repeatable)
---[X] Iranian Revolution: A revolution spearheaded by both Communists and Liberals has deposed the monarchy in Iran. While most of our focus has been on Afghanistan, that's not to say that we can't lend some support to the leftist factions here too, be it in guns and training, bribes of equipment for swing factions, Liberation theology to try to undermine the Fundamentalist positions, or radios to allow them easier communication and to spread their message far and wide, all in service of making sure that said revolution remains Communist and is no co-opted by any reactionaries.
-[X] Wei Jungming - (RP)
--[X] Personal Action: Go stargazing away from the city with the family: Out here, away from the city and all the lights where the Milky Way stretches across the night sky in all its glory is still one of the most amazing sights Guangchou has to offer. Take Mai, a telescope, some of our older kids if they're up for it
and some bodyguards for a late night hike up a mountain to take in the sights, maybe show them exactly why we are so entranced with the idea of going to space.
--[X] Personal Action: The family tree; Looking past our father: We don't know anything about our extended family, or Wei Mai's. Do we have any cousins, or even aunts/uncles? What about our in-laws? We have eight tiny terrors that I'm sure our family would love to meet and spoil rotten!
--[X] Lover Action: Education is more than classrooms: Wei Mai is highly trained, incredibly fit, and outdoorsy. Who better to champion a movement to create local Young Pioneer troops? The "Michelle Obama" approach, lead by example and tv appearances, make something worthy of our kids joining when they get older. (Plus, she gets experience wrangling groups of tweens that will definitely come in handy later)
[X] Commiewood: Pioneers
A soft sci-fi comedy set in a post-revolution world where Communism is global and automated to the point where a job is a want rather than a need, the final frontier to be explored is space. But look away from those big names, the famous Pioneers charting the wonders of the universe and spearheading the expansion of Communism from the Captain's chair; here's the hijinks of a bunch of low-rank nobodies, who secure in their knowledge that the machines can take over their duties whenever they don't feel like doing them, become the worst nightmare of superior officers anywhere: bored soldiers.
Two parts comedy, one part propaganda meant to slip through censors easier by satirizing the post-revolution world in government-approved ways (such as poking fun at Guangchou's habit of excessively verbose names) in order to spread what the actual goal of Communism is to areas that before would only have learned from Red-Scare propaganda, and topped of with a dash of military kickbacks by making the Explorer corps an explicitly military organization, implying that even in a post-revolution world with no war the military will still have a place. Unlike many other soft sci-fi shows, it intentionally does not contain alien societies or artificial intelligence to avoid distracting from the ideal post-revolution world and the question of AI slavery with all the automation respectively.
TL;DR Bored soldiers, the slice-of-life sci-fi anime.
