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Originally Posted by kalos72
So with Dragoon's number, you expect to have roughly 60 facilities, not including supply or regional bases and the like, again roughly?
Thats like one per county or something. Or are some of them housing multiple teams anyway? I am having a very hard time seeing the structure in MP honestly.
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I have the following facilities:
27 under the national command: Prime Base, Second Base, 7 research labs*, and 3 each of air bases, archives, comms bases, factories, hospitals, and logistics facilities.
There are also 7 Regions, each with the following facilities (7x7 = 49 total): Air base, command base, comms base, factory, hospital, logistics base, and sea base**.
Each region has 6 Districts, each with the following facilities (7x6x5 = 210 total): Command base, comms base, logistics base, machine shop, and project maintenance facility.
That gives me 27+49+210 = 286 total permanent facilities (not counting bolt holes and other facilities
meant to be abandoned). That is 5.6 per state, but far less than one per county. Please note that I have not included Canada in any way in laying out my version of the Project.
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Originally Posted by kalos72
If your science guys are all in one, two, five bases across the state now he has to cross half the state, with areas in various degrees of reconstruction hopefully, to get to the area he is most needed?
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Taking science as an example, and bearing in mind that I use a National-Regional-District-Group-Team organizational structure, I have Science Teams attached at the District level. The purpose of these teams is to perform on-site research and collect data and samples for further study. The bulk of the investigation is then escalated to the aforementioned research labs. So yes, a Science Team may well expect to travel halfway across an average-size state to get to the area where they are most needed, but I consider that acceptable because I do not expect there to be "science emergencies" on any kind of regular basis. I see more value in recon or reconstruction than I do in having Science Teams available on hand on the off chance that every District is requiring of advanced scientific knowledge and tools just to meet their basic survival needs.
But if you take Recon as an example, my structure has almost 900*** Recon Teams spread over 3.5 million square miles, which means roughly 1 Team per 3600 square miles or a Recon Team within 34 miles (on average) of any emergency. And since "emergency" is in the primary domain of the Recon Teams, this works pretty well.
As for reconstruction teams, they are not generally expected to be dealing with emergencies under the Project plan - even 5 years after war, emergencies will be relatively rare compared to simple "bad situations". So again, there is relatively little value in having them so tightly spaced that they could be on constant hand for emergencies that rarely occur. And when they do occur, the Recon Teams and other Morrow units are expected to hold the line until the specialists arrive and to perform under their remote instruction.
*: In my version, the research labs were an inherent part of the background of the Project, the number is tied to that backstory.
**: All 7 regions have water access.
***: EDITED, I originally showed 8000 teams but that was really the number of team members, not teams.