Tuesday, November 01, 2011

Proposal: Idle Workers

S/Ked - Dead Body Collection Service ON BEHALF OF arthexis - coppro
(this should affect Prince Anduril rather than me, corrected—arthexis)

Adminned at 02 Nov 2011 09:00:52 UTC

Representing: southpointingchariot, arthexis, comex, SingularByte

Create a new rule entitled “Striking” with the following text:

In today’s economy, many Employees are too lazy to work. Therefore, in an effort to increase productivity, whenever an Employee goes idle because they have not posted an entry or comment in the last seven days, this is known as going On Strike. Whenever an Employee goes On Strike, any player may transfer 2 SP from the Government to that Employee’s most recent Employer, as compensation.

This should compensate Employers when their employees go idle, so they don’t lose out. Also might bring in an interesting tactic of intentionally employing idle players, in order to get hand outs from the Government. It should be noted that Employees cease to be employable, when they become idle (as they are not Active Players), thus it does not matter that they are no longer tracked on the GNDT

Comments

ais523:

01-11-2011 14:47:24 UTC

against I rather like the minigame inherent in employing people who seem unlikely to idle. (And this proposal looks rather self-serving, because you just employed an obvious idler.)

Amnistar: he/him

01-11-2011 14:52:54 UTC

Doesn’t limit how often you can perform the Action. One person you employ isles you get 200 SP

Pavitra:

01-11-2011 15:51:06 UTC

against per Amnistar.

southpointingchariot:

01-11-2011 15:52:07 UTC

imperial seems to have a bug - also I’m not sure I like the incentive structure here.

Prince Anduril:

01-11-2011 17:24:18 UTC

ais - Of course it’s self serving, it was in employing the person that I realised the problem, and figured this might be a nice mechanic.

Amnistar - That’s true, but given that you have to wait 7 days each time, it’s a long wait for a small pay-off.

Spitemaster:

01-11-2011 17:49:01 UTC

No, you don’t. against

SingularByte: he/him

01-11-2011 18:41:27 UTC

imperial

eelpout:

01-11-2011 19:28:43 UTC

against  I am not particularly favorable towards my employer’s idea today.

Amnistar: he/him

01-11-2011 20:17:14 UTC

against

ChronosPhaenon:

01-11-2011 20:33:00 UTC

against bugged.

omd:

01-11-2011 20:35:39 UTC

for

omd:

01-11-2011 20:40:01 UTC

(mostly symbolic - despite ais523’s comment, I sort of like the idea of a choice between 2 guaranteed SPs and the probably greater but more obscure benefits of active employment.)

Amnistar: he/him

01-11-2011 21:27:20 UTC

comex: The problem is once I have 1 worker go ideal I can transfer 2 SP to myself whenever I want.

arthexis: he/him

02-11-2011 00:44:40 UTC

against

Bucky:

02-11-2011 02:11:25 UTC

against to nudge towards quorum

Amnistar: he/him

02-11-2011 02:18:17 UTC

arthexis S/K’d if someone wants to admin it.