This hardly seems fair. One option is currently worth $1000. Currently rolling DICE15s so would expect 7 options for a total of $7,000

A box’s value currently can’t be more than 260. If we ever get to the point where we have bigger boxes, the options will also go up and so R&D still get a huge advantage.

Meanwhile sales gets no bonus way to increase options or vesting at all???

> A box’s value currently can’t be more than 260. If we ever get to the point where we have bigger boxes, the options will also go up and so R&D still get a huge advantage.

I meant to take out the divided by 5, whoops. Using the full value should help a bit, but yes, it does leave a slight advantage for the person making the proposal.

>Meanwhile sales gets no bonus way to increase options or vesting at all???

Sales does get a bonus! You have theoretically infinite actions in a day, meaning theoretically infinite options; there’s randomness and it’s limited by the number of boxes in the warehouse, but you’re no longer solidly constrained by the “one per day” rule on actions.

I forgot about the “first action” thing on options, let me fix that.

I even removed the sales advantage because you’re right, as the budget grows, options get much more powerful than a set amount of vested value

Hoo boy! I’m going to have to go over this proposal a second time. (Chances of it passing are low, though, as it requires quorum.)

still feels like this probably favors R&D

Well, yes, it does a bit. I’m in R&D, I proposed something that benefits R&D slightly more than the other departments. It is slight, though: manufacturing can’t hoard bonus options, they get the vested value immediately; sales has a slight randomness to whether they get the bonus (but can get way more for a single action). I really do think it balances out fairly well, overall.

Also @TyGuy, I threw in some balance for all of the departments in order to help us reach that quorum - if people want their department boosted enough, they’ll vote FOR.

as I’m not in R&D so I don’t want to support anything that helps R&D more than anyone else

@Clucky, it doesn’t really help, just does things in a different way. Options can be better than immediate Vested Value, but because our budget can decrease without any way for R&D to stop it, options can also be much worse. It’s a matter of perspective and the game surrounding it which is better.

Plus I would argue sales actually gets the biggest advantage from this since they would be able to sell infinitely and generate even more options than R&D. Just a few things to think about

you can’t sell infinitely you can only sell what is actually available to you.

Really should have held off until Monday on that diamond box.

So lets take a look at some sample recent options to see what everyone would get from this:

Brendan in marketing made a 593.60 box. So he gets 8902.5… except by making a 593.60 box, the company budget fell to 58.40. So he only gets $876

There are two boxes to sell. So in theory, I have a 50% chance of getting another 6 options and a 25% chance of getting 6 more from a selling streak. This averages 6 options. But also there is an open order, so its less than that. On average,

Tyguy averages a 7.5 on his 4DICE20 so gets 7 options

Supernova averages 13.5 on her 4DICE20 so gets 13 options.

So even a low roll from Tyguy is better than what my expected average would be. And given the value of the box Brendan generated, a single option is probably going to be worth more than all Brendan would get from this

So yeah, Marketing gets absolutely hosed by this, and sales does considerably worth than R&D

CoV per Clucky, all the BAMPAM is making my ears ring.

And this needs quorum to pass anyway, which it doesn’t look like it’s going to get.