For now the best investment we can do is in power, water, food, and shelter

you know tbh i have never met a single person who has 2 braincells to rub together in terms on conversations like this in real life

tbh that's where most of your spending should go

because if you need to use the damn thing then you are in a shit show

Yeah

idealy I want to never use my guns

Its like you said

i would want to hunt with them but spilling blood always comes back to bite you sooner or later

Well I mean in defense it makes sense. I just mean I hope we are able to maintain peace

Cooperation in a disaster is the most important thing

You want to avoid war if possible

yep

the only thing im iffy about with big groups is that in stressful situations with heavily armed men those men seem to always want to "take over" a city

and when you do that.

it never goes well

Thats the thing about systems. The better the system the better the community

And along with that, the less people want to steal from each other and shit

true but every system has to enforce laws witch then pisses off some groups

Thats another thing, we want to have people be so dependent that they don't war

Division of labor and a local economy helps with that

true

We'll be setting up a machine shop and we're working on powering it too. That will be great for the local area

If people can buy and sell goods then they have no need to steal them

To be clear, I'm no expert, and I'm sure there will be fighting. You are entirely correct. We're just trying to find ways to avoid that

i think one thing you should think about is trading with the near by towns in a shtf situation after all a local economy is great but shutting yourself off from the outside completely is a good way to create animosity

the smart prepare for the fight, but also to avoid it as much as possible

I kind of mean that by local economy. We're doing the opposite of shutting ourselves off

We're trying to be the people everyone goes to when they need stuff so that way we can become an economic benefactor

thats what i would do

but i'll more then likely be that asshole who goes through the forests solo lmao

depends on the timeframe

Its possible to do

But its not easy

long term we hope to expand so that way we don't have to worry about petty infighting

have you boys looked into boats? or rivercraft?

any towns near a deep river?

In our area we don't really have enough rivers to make it a necessity

ah rivers are a great way to move alot of stuff quickly

We have water from them but they're not big enough to drive down

that's why i asked

not to mention hydroelectric