I suppose Jump Start doesn’t have to be a Daily Action. Any opinions on that?

I don’t think the optimal play is as clear-cut as you make it out to be. Not every hobby is created equal, and if you wait that long people will already have all the good hobbies, forcing you to either double up or pick something less good. Also the sooner you get a hobby the sooner you become an Adult and can get a job

Also, the Reserve refund shouldn’t be boosted by Aspiration (we should really make things default to not being Aspiration-boosted until otherwise stated to prevent constantly having to mention this)

Thanks for the notice about Aspiration. I’m starting to think that Aspiration should only apply for the Be Productive action and nothing else.

You’re probably right about the optimal strategy, but I thought this could be an alternate way to grab a Hobby if you didn’t want to commit to one right away.

It’s telling that no one has added a Hobby yet except Josh, and Josh only did it because he thought he was going to get the maximum Be Productive output right away.

I do like the concept of a way to reserve hobbies. I think this might be a bit broken as it is though, it mostly just moves the timing rush to the beginning (if you’re poor you want to pick hobbies before the rich get a chance to Reserve, and if you’re rich you want to Reserve before anyone else gets a chance to do anything so you can hold on to your Reservation as long as possible and see if it’s a good choice). I’ll probably be against just because of the enacting admin advantage here

So hang on

The argument here is that first moving is a disadvantage, so you’re going to take away the one compensation that exists for it?

I think I am being bampamed

To be fair, I just chose a Hobby myself, and I wrote this before anyone chose a Hobby, so perhaps it’s no longer useful. I’m happy to withdraw it if it seems we’re progressing along just fine without it.

I think that any balance gain this might have isn’t worth the rules complexity.

Withdrawn.