Minister of Infrastructure Communication: Turn 118+, 1640BC

[Immortal Wombat]

Hello my fellow Lemurians!

Below I have presented my proposal for the oncoming infrastructure projects. They consist of 16 road tiles, joining 6 cities from Wels to Colonia Locuta, and four farms in three city boundaries. In total, they require 1900 PW.

I propose they be completed in the following order:

1/ Give we will have two turns at a high* PW rate, we will have a PW store of about 650-700 after the first turn. This we will put towards the "red" road route. ie. the first 10 or 11 road tiles.

2/ After a second turn of high* PW rate (to be debated), we will be able to complete this road network (120-180PW) and complete hopefully the first two farms on top of that.

3/ After this will we drop to a base PW rate of (hopefully) 20%, which will allow us to build up a steady store and complete a slow rate of improvements. The two remaining farms will be completed within the ensuing turns, unless progress is too slow, and the turquoise road desperately needed, in which case it will be jumped ahead.

4/ All the improvements will be complete, and I will reassess.

Discussion welcome.

ImmortalWombat
MoI

[Maquiladora]

Why dont we put 4 farms around Pedrunnia? The other cities already have some farms, and it seems better to concentrate on improving one city at a time, then move to the next one, rather than giving each one a small boost.

And also H Town and the other big ones will be suffering from overcrowding soon so we wont see a prolonged (sp) benefit without building an Aqueduct.

ps. I assume you made a mistake by putting farm #3 on the second ring?

[Immortal Wombat]

yes. it should be one to the south-west.

[Pedrunn]

I rather build farms in Wels. Graz and H Town ou the biggest cities shouldnt we focus in the other ones.

I like the road network you have made. But please we have money now for 2 roads build those in the roads for Graz - H Town - Pressburg that doesnt have river.

[Maquiladora]

Or put farms around Wels yeah, of all our cities Wels probably needs the farms most aswell and it will still need more farms to make up for the bad food tiles when it expands.

[mapfi]

I'd rather see more farms than the road from CL to Pedrunnia and I would after this one PW injection of two turns production leave it back at 0% until we end the war with the Austrians!

[Maquiladora]

I agree, the longer we keep PW on the worse our logistics is gonna be attacking the Austrians. We cant just make 2 stacks and attack, we need a steady stream behind of backup so we can keep on rollin' or if something goes askew.

[Pedrunn]

I'd rather have a road from the new city (wombatoon) to Pedrunnia than the CL-Pedrunnia one.

[Immortal Wombat]

I'd rather wait until the area around Wels is secure before using PW on it. If an enemy unit comes wandering down, then farms are too expensive to risk on a frontier city at this time. Once we've taken nearby cities or made peace, then yes, but until then I would prefer to use PW on our core cities. Pedrunnia needs it most IMO, and H Town despite being large is actually using few farms, most belong to Pressburg and Graz.

Maq may be right: 4 farms around Pedrunnia, and do one city at a time.