The new Czar has already withdrawn his support for the project; it's highly unlikely that he'll mess with it
more. Not impossible, but unlikely. It seems as though he did that specifically as a "fuck you" gesture to us, not because of a general desire to "fuck everyone" disrupt the CAF (and enrage the global community and invite immediate negative comparisons to his father).
Furthermore, note that this is done to
green our power grid; only by spending 3 AP do we even begin to get actual expansions. Worst case, we can just continue with coal-fired power plants until we find a new sugar daddy willing to help us.
"Tribes" is an...
interesting choice of words. I oppose the doubling on gunboats simply because we have so much else going on; it would be better to invest in diplomacy to resolve crises and establish our regional hegemony.
Yeah, but we've been pretty big overachievers on some other fronts (
Illinois Woman Claws Victorian Air Force Out of Heavens, Makes Entire Victorian Army Group Fall, Begging For Mercy, Heard By Their Brethren Who Are Powerless To Save Them).
I think we can take a little hemming and hawing about a local conference mediation without suffering
too much damage to our reputation. Furthermore, overachieving on the agricultural front lets us export agricultural products instead of importing (good for our AP budget).
Remember that reputation matters, but so do physical goods.
No, because overachieving on agricultural equipment has impact. That's what happened last time- our action overachieved by enough that we bought a considerable grace period of
not having to worry about food security, despite our imports being totally cut off during the Detroit War.
The point is, doubling down on that action is done not just to avoid crisis, but to court the beneficial consequences of overachieving, because that will in turn translate into more mechanized agricultural productivity that is in turn the underpinnings of our nation's economic development.
See also
@huhYeahGoodPoint 's posts on the subject.
Ehh.
That's a respectable point and I'm going to think about it, but I'm not entirely sure I agree about the urgency- especially since
More Gunboats is the kind of action where half-succeeding is relatively likely to mean "you get half your boats," which means we're at least
trending upwards as the turn rolls on rather than sitting still.
Opening up a ton of projects only helps us so much if we don't have more AP to do anything about them with. My own plan, as I recall, has double AP on
Census Office, but I'm still prepared to accept it taking two turns- note that there IS a roughly 50% chance of it taking two turns anyway if we spend two AP on it, because there's only about a 49% chance of both dice succeeding.
Oh yeah that's important. It bears remembering that nothing can get to us from "far foreign" or even over much of the Lakes at all from, like... roughly November/December through March/April.
I think you're misapplying your salt.
First of all, the Commonwealth's current population is about as socialism-positive as you are ever likely to see without forcing everyone to smile and wave red flags at gunpoint. A large minority that bids fair to become a plurality of the electorate is a member of an overtly socialist party. The "left-progressive-but-not-actually-socialist" parties that occupy the center position are forced into compromises with them just to form a government. If there was ever a way out of that particular trap, we're close to it. Neoliberalism is a discredited extremist right-wing fringe position in our political ecosystem, which is
precisely the kind of condition where democracy is unfriendly to neoliberalism.
Second of all, the Commonwealth is in such a condition of poverty that there's
nowhere to go but up; economic development that is
not exploitative can nevertheless improve the standard of living. Who, exactly, is being exploited when we refound the school system and distribute farming machinery to the forcibly re-peasant-ized rural population of our territory?
