Friday, September 05, 2025

Proposal: Ain’t No Way To Make A Living

Add a new rule to the ruleset, called Workweek:

Each Innie has a Working Hours, which is a publicly tracked field containing an eight-hour span in the UTC day (eg: 08:00 - 16:00), or blank, defaulting to blank. Once per dynasty, an Innie may change their Working Hours to any legal value (except blank).

If it is Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday or Friday, and it is within the span of an Innie’s Working Hours, then that Innie is working. Otherwise, they are not working. An Innie can only carry out Work Actions if they are working and can only carry out Non-Working Actions if they are not working.

An Innie may only carry out a maximum of three Work Actions during each span of their work hours.

The Board is considered to be working if any Innie is working, and is always considered to be not working.

If there is a rule called Employees, change ‘daily action’ to ‘Work Action’.

If there is a rule called Projects, change:

As a communal Daily action, increment each Project assigned to a Department by their Departmental Effort divided by the number of projects that are assigned to them

to

As a Work Action, an Innie may increment each Project assigned to their Department by their Departmental Effort, divided by the number of projects that are assigned to them

In the same rule, change ‘a Goal which defaults to 10’ to ‘a Goal which defaults to 100’.

If there is a rule called Workplace Code of Conduct, change ‘they may File a Report’ to ‘they may, as a Work Action, File a Report’.

Add the following as a subrule to the rule Workweek, called Gossip:

An Innie may, as a Work Action, send one direct message to another Innie in their Department. Whenever an Innie Gossips they must make a post to the blog announcing that they are in the kitchen on a break.

Comments

JonathanDark: he/him

05-09-2025 11:42:02 UTC

This may wind up under pass-and-fix, but Gossip is not as limited as it seems. The “one direct message” has no fixed length.

Also, what does it mean that “The Board is considered to be working if any Innie is working, and is always considered to be not working”? Was it intentional for The Board to possibly have two opposite states, both working and not working?

Josh: he/they

05-09-2025 11:57:15 UTC

No fixed length is intentional - I don’t mind someone monologuing an essay, but it’s not a conversation until someone sends a response.

The Board stuff was also intentional - at the moment the Board has no actions associated with them but needs to be available.

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