Bay 12 Games Forum

Quote from: Armok on January 16, 2012, 04:19:19 pm

No, it's NOT silly expensive. Did you look at the prices? Mining them ourselves is probably much more expensive, even before we take into account we're not in as good a place for mining and the work we ourselves would need to put in it. It's capitalism, specialization. Do what you're better than everyone else at and buy the rest from those that are better than you at those specific things.

Case in point in economy Primary production is always less expensive the secondary and tertiary production. It'll always be cheap for us to do mining on our own... Unless you count in things like time and labor. Then it'll probably more efficient to buy from people better equipped then ourselves. Especially if we work out a deal where we exchange clones for lowered prices. But producing ourselves on a smaller scale would be helpful. SO I sorta agree with Armok on the whole buy what we need, Though before we do that we should have a stronger economic base and more cash reserves so we can stay liquid, in case of One time offers and emergencies.

Quote from: Angle on January 16, 2012, 04:24:27 pm

An underground bunker are would have some benefits, but we should still maintain our surface presence.

I agree totally with this. Lasers and ranged weapons work better  at a distance, so a defensive structure is to our benefit. Plus solar energy need light, and we don't have to waste wood for fuel. I'm thinking long term, we have power plants and shuttle landing pad, plus perhaps watch tower and kennel/Animal yards. Plus dirt based farms on the ground, with an advanced lab underground.