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There are many and varied living supplies, and the point ratio is not fixed.
Cheng Ye quickly estimated that the ratio of Infrastructure Points to Contribution Points is not fixed at 1:100. Most essential supplies maintain around 1:120, while slightly expensive items like clothes and radios can reach 1:150, and demolition and construction tools are exaggerated to 1:200.
But even so, Cheng Ye roughly calculated that providing all living supplies for five hundred people would require 30 points just for 500 sets of mattresses and bedding. Adding other necessities, the starting point would be 75 points and above.
"If we buy it all, the infrastructure would have to live on thin air!"
Knowing the situation, Cheng Ye slid his finger and began placing orders according to the plan.
Mattresses, bedding, clothes, these things.
Whether now or in the future, residents must pay for such supplies themselves.
As the person in charge of Dapo Town, he would only strive to provide well-paid job opportunities, allowing everyone to earn more money and improve their lives as fast as possible.
If distributed freely, it would be like Zhao Jia offering high prices to the young and strong, eventually breeding a group of people waiting for benefits, which makes rewards and punishnts difficult to set and dampens the spirits of those who work hard.
Moreover, the refugees are not entirely without possessions. Happiness City initially provided so basic supplies, combined with the belongings they brought during migration, they can last for a period.
Now what’s necessary to buy are essential tools, food, and items that can uplift people’s spirits.
Nutrient Paste is a basic need, five bags per person per day are required to ensure physical strength.
bags, exactly 5 points.
Ordered 100 sets of three types of tool kits, totaling 300 sets, spending 15 points, essential for pioneering, building, and maintaining.
Buy 500 towels, 2 points; 320 buckets (2-3 per household, 1 for the young and strong), 4 points; basins in the sa quantity, 3 points.
These are basic household essentials, can’t skimp.
Patrolling at night needs light, 30 flashlights paired with 4 hand-cranked chargers, 3 points.
At this point, 32 points have been spent, Cheng Ye stared at the remaining 60 points, his finger paused on the infection-filtering water pitcher. Although Dapo Town is near the water source making water retrieval convenient, the underwater situation is unclear and the rainy season continues, there’s no guarantee infection sources won’t flow downstream.
Nutrient Paste can’t replace drinking water. This item can filter infection sources and greatly reduce infection risks.
He gritted his teeth and added 30 more, spending an additional 5 points!
"Money really doesn’t go far, there’s 55 points left, must save it for infrastructure."
Cheng Ye opened the shopping cart, looked at the displayed numbers, suddenly felt the saying "You don’t know the cost of firewood, rice, oil, and salt until you manage a household."
These civilian supplies don’t seem expensive when viewed individually, not a big burden for individuals, but once multiplied by 500, the gap becos astonishing.
Only a place like Happiness City with a complete distribution system and hundreds to thousands managing the supply frawork can maintain a unified and stable price.
Delving deeper, behind it is a massive industrial area supported by tens of thousands of workers, allowing him this ease of selection now.
It even requires Inspectors to constantly go out for negotiations and procurent, and trade convoys between Shelter Cities continually purchasing and transporting to ensure uninterrupted raw material supply.
These problems, seemingly easily resolved in the old era, in the Wasteland require at least tens of thousands of efforts to barely construct a simple frawork.
"Wanting to build a settlent independent of Shelter City, on reflection, it’s truly difficult. Without an independent supply procurent system, it’s bound to ultimately rely on Shelter City for survival!"
Thinking this way, he slid his finger and clicked on the next major challenge of the assessnt.
Page transitioned, the categories concerning infrastructure are equally astonishingly nurous, even surpassing the items, reaching a full 1670 pages, a total of 33400 entries.
Of course, many infrastructure materials are the sa kind, subdivided into different specifications.
"This stage challenges the Inspector’s personal ability, or if one has connections to offer advice, strategize, and plan layout!"
Cheng Ye’s fingers flying across, quickly searching and placing orders in the marketplace.
For him, selecting these infrastructure materials is purely a professional match, with a mature plan already in mind, at this mont placing in the shopping cart is rely weighing price and cost-effectiveness.
If certain materials are out of stock due to prior bulk choices by Satellite City or insufficient discounts, he unhesitatingly skips them, seeking alternatives or lowering quality without regret.
Trees die when moved, people thrive on change, in poverty, one seeks change; this bit of flexibility he has.
Item by item, materials jump into the shopping cart with each fingertip touch, remaining points visibly decreasing.
Upon reaching the "Residential Units" category, originally Cheng Ye didn’t plan to purchase these during the assessnt phase as it wastes funding and occupies labor.
But when he clicked on the detail page, the displayed price and right corner discount instantly made him sit upright.
[Standard Residential Unit: 1 point/8 units]
[This item is in promotional discount, current price is only: 49% off, discount strategy: Buy 3 get 1 free]
What the heck, am I seeing things?
49% off!
Buy 3 get 1 free!
This promotional power is practically comparable to those roadside clearances like "factory clearance, last day" sales, exaggerated to the point of disbelief.
"Is it because no one bought them, causing a massive backlog of residential units produced earlier and leading to such a large discount?"
Cheng Ye was greatly surprised.
The evening broadcasts these days and the Little Sun channel always ntion the construction progress of Satellite City at the end.
Of a batch of 12 Satellite Cities, not a single one adopted the residential unit, even requiring broadcast announcents to promote its benefits in hopes of reducing refugee bias.
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