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Originally Posted by WallShadow
If saving a city means that city can begin to manufacture machine tools and precision instruments of even the most basic type, civilization will follow and spread.
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You're missing my point. You DON'T have enough to spread.
For example, my town recovers a enough spare parts for us to make 25 alarm clocks. We can now have 25 houses live in a synchronized civilized manner.
But we cannot make another 25 to trade with another town. No parts.
When someone elbows their clock and cracks the case, we cannot build them a spare. No parts.
When you use the parts for 5 computers to make one that works, you have... one computer. You cannot mate them to make more.
My point was that you cannot make another visit to a giant warehouse of parts to take away a truckload and build another load of stuff. One trip to a dead factory may get you a useful load - but there won't be more built to go back a second time.
Salvage is not a bottmless pit, and its scattershot for what you find; it may be useful - or it may not be helpful at this point in time.
IMHO
Uncle Ted