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Originally Posted by kalos72
I dont want to get too far off topic on the radio lines, maybe split this off to a whole new convo?
Anyones thoughts on the above please?
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I think it is complicated.
First, you really need to draw a distinction between pre-war and post-war populations - highly urban areas are likely to be more devastated than very rural areas, so two areas with identical population numbers pre-war may have very different numbers post-war. I put together a rough estimate of survival rates in another thread, and used the results to draw my regional boundaries.
For reference, I use 7 Regions (5,878 staff each) with an estimated post-war population of 4.5-5.5 million each. That means each of their 6 Districts* (876 staff each) is responsible for about 750,000-900,000, and that each of the Districts' 5 Groups (131 staff each) is responsible for about 150,000-180,000. Regardless, this is about 1,000 post-war population per team member, but don't put too much behind this number as it has little real meaning - anything below the Group level is too specialized to have responsibility over a population, their duty is to the Group population.
Second, the term "can handle" has no meaning. The aid that any team can give is dependent on their resources and the needs of the region, but there is no real top limit on the amount of aid the region will need and no specific mandate on what the Project should provide. Ultimately, the Project is simply resource limited. If the Project was 10 people, they could still help, just not
much. If you have specific objectives (the Project will perform X tasks for Y population in Z time) then perhaps we can discuss whether or not a particular organization can handle it, but until then...
Third, it is always a challenge to remember that the Project should be built with the expectation of it working, even though the game is dependent on something going majorly wrong. Could they "handle" a particular population 5 years post-war? Perhaps, but it is
150 years post-war, and the situation is radically different. Easier, in fact - if the Project had gone off as planned it would have been a challenging task demanding all the Project could do and more, but as it is, anything they can do is great and anything they can't do is at least not catastrophic.
*: I was calling these Areas, but that word is just too general.