A few swift points about WA
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by whitelaughter
Real life is raising its' head so this is in point form. Sorry.
HOSPITALS
Putting a hospital in WA - or NT, or QLD - is unwise at this point. In the event of an invasion, these are the regions that will be attacke😛
risking the destruction of the hospital in the first battle. South Australia and Tasmania though cannot be attacked unless other states have fallen, so are better sites for hospitals.
DEFENSE SYSTEMS
Defense systems normally go to the back of the queue for purchasing, as they aren't as cost effective as Hosptials or increasing the strength of soldiers. However, eAus has a very high proportion of zombies, making them more valauble as normal. WA is both highest priority and the best location (due to the high number of dead eIndonesian colonists).
Can we afford to run a defense system company? NO, we can't: we don't have the workforce. However, we do have multiple defense system company, including a Q5 in WA and a Q3 in NT.
I recommend letting other enations use the companies - for free. Why? Because while they do so, we get taxes from their workers; once they 'buy' the system, the company get a free export license. Any of the small neutral enations would be good choices to do this deal with.
ECONOMIC SPECIALISATION
Regaining WA has given us an additional 325 companies - when we don't have the workers to run our existing companies. eAus desperately needs to specialise! Our only High resources are Grain and Diamonds - rather than producing Iron and Wood, we should trade for them. Currently NINETY eAussies are working in Wood and Iron; shifting them over to Diamonds or Grain would double their producitvity and increase the efficiency of currently understaffed companies. I propose (and intend to run in the next congress elections on this platform) - we increase the taxes on Wood and Iron to 50% to euthanize the Wood and Iron industries, and provide workers for the Grain and Diamond industries.
and if you thought that was controversial....
EXCESS COMPANIES CAN BE OFFERED TO (PARA)MILITARY FORCES
With literally hundreds of empty companies in eAus, we have the option of offering them to other people's military units. Again, we would do this rent free, as the taxes alone more than justify the scheme.
What's in it for them? Bacially, these units would be able to move in and out of eAus at will, working here to increase their skills and aiming for Hard Worker medals - something professional soldiers find difficult due to the minimum 3 days before you can resign. With their commander in charge of the company, they will know that they'll be fired the moment they need to move.
Small scale, this means mercenary units - having the option to be fired whenever they need to move for a contract should tempt some forces. Large scale, this means EDEN: offering these companies to their elite units so that they can launch attacks into eSAfrica!
This would be a final revocation of any claim to neutrality of course, so I expect that many people will oppose this very strongly. Fair enough, but when arguing, consider the following points:
1) if eSAfrica is liberated, eIndonesia will have no local supplies of Diamonds, and will need to abandon their tariff barrier and start importing: and most of our companies have (currently useless) export licenses to eIndonesia.
2) eSAfrican companies would be able to buy cheap export licenses to eAustralia. While not normally useful, if their weapons companies had licenses they could export to us during military crises. Remember that when eAustralia first joined the war games, our weapons market was stripped completely bare! Having emergency suppliers would be prudent.
3) eSafrica doesn't have any Grain. eSAfricans who invested in eAus Grain companies could move to occupied regions, and sign up for their own companies - then after the Resistance Wars, they would be back in eSAfrica, where they can run for congress. This system provides us with workers and them with cheap Grain.
Now for this to work it requires i) eAustralian support, ii) EDEN's backing, & iii) eSAfrican support. So it is something for eAussies to argue about, and then (if in favour) make sure that eSAfrica wants this. Only then would we make the offer to EDEN.
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Where to start.
Well for starters this is not Real life as you've suggested in your first line.
Next, you should know that we already have a hospital in Queensland, so no point in debating whether it should have one.
How do you propose to let other ppl use our companies rent free? Giving them access to companies actually would give those companies away free, which is something we'd be silly to do, and anyone who uses those companies would take workers away from our already strained workforce.
Exporting isn't a bad idea but export licenses are 20g each and once exported the import taxes would make our products not so competitive in price, especially since wages here are on the high side.
-real life - something I deal with when not online. A new job etc mean that I can't spend as much time editing and checking the article as I would like. Yes, there's a hospital in QLD - making QLD the logical target for an eIndo invasion, as not only does success knock out that hospital, they then have a border with NSW to attack *it's* hospital. SA and Tassie though don't have this problem. The use of the companies can be handled by contracts, of course. The companies would sit idle when not full of troops. The majority of companies in eAus *already* have eIndo export licenses - and they will be useless until import taxes are removed. And that won't happen while eIndo has domestic supplies. eSAfrican companies would buy export licenses for only 5 Gold, as we'd hold those regions for a couple of days before returning them. thanks for commenting though!
I like the military company idea, I think it would work. Just so long as those companies don't take eAustralian workers away from eAustralian companies then I think it is a very good idea.
KwaZulu Natal would give us a med grain region if we got it back. But i like all the other points