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Yes and no. People complain a lot about this stuff at face value some of it sounds ridiculous, and often it is, but it's really easy for well-intentioned relief organizations to screw up a country with short term response. If you flood a country with so much rice it is cheaply or freely distributed to everyone and now subsidized by all the support when you have perfectly good rice farmers a few hours away that would normally sell to that area who now can't make a living or go out of business you can now economically mess up the system for years to come. Typically you will attempt to locally source materials and supplies to do the exact opposite - boost the nearby and local economy and infrastructure - so when you leave it is sustainable.

This is very much the role of customs and government in situations like this - to not just rubber stamp all of the aid coming in because it is aid. They need to make sure the rice is bought from the nearby rice farmers so they don't ruin that industry by accepting free rice. Perhaps they have an ample mayonnaise industry outside of Khatmandu that was unaffected? Maybe the tuna was in a state it needed to be prepared (or like for sushi) and the typical person doesn't have the means to prepare it safely? Maybe an issue of how quickly it expires? (Very hypothetical, just examples).

tl;dr You need to be concerned about food safety still during a disaster. You need to be concerned about agricultural economics for the long term even during a disaster.

I have nothing to do with medical industry but I am going to take a complete guess:

A doubt a hospital can just say, 'oh, cool thanks' and toss the drugs in a drawer in the back somewhere just in case. There is probably some extensive paperwork, chain of custody, auditing of drugs, storage of drugs, liability of everything of prescribing, etc, etc that goes on. And the hospital sees, okay do we want to bother doing this for a thing that affects maybe two or three people in the entire country every year and has never even been an issue in our area or within a thousand miles of us?

That's probably the situation the hospitals are in currently.

Perhaps ideally once Amazon or someone gets some of their drone fantasies off the ground they could just keep a pack at each distribution center instead of hospitals. :)

Can we expect offworld to be expanded or what kinds of modding can be done? New ceo's or resources or any other big additions or mechanics?

We have done voice recordings to replace the text-to-speech, and it will be coming soon!

This! I came back after picking it up in early access, thought it had a way to go, played another few rounds and heard this same text-to-speech stuff and was super super disappointed. This is so good to hear, everything else seemed to get polished off nicely but this was so incredibly far off base it was killing the experience.

So good to hear.

controlling multiple units is beyond most players.

Huh? Could you clarify this a little bit? This begs to be taken out of context, but I'm not sure I understand the context. Are you suggesting MOBA's are popular because they are easier for most players than handling extra units on a map?

 

 

^{(I don't think it's a very fair comparison or statement at face value, MOBA's incorporate the team/sport "multiplayer", "arena" aspects I think as it's big appeal, also see: Rocket League... diving into something as complex and crazy as League or DOTA way more complicated and beyond my skills than following an opening guide for Starcraft or something. I'm not seeing at all how this is related. This statement kind of comes across flippantly dismissing players as not good enough to play military RTS's so they play MOBA's instead that are easier "cause you only have one guy to control". As if that makes it more accessible to the average player).}

 

Offworld does indeed push the boundaries of RTS's and I love everything about it so far (except the text-to-speech VO's).