Sunday, January 16, 2022

Proposal: Searching for Improvements

Passes 9-0. Enacted by Brendan.

Adminned at 18 Jan 2022 04:35:42 UTC

If the subrule “Research & Development” does not exist, this proposal does nothing.

Add to the rule “Boring Box Company” the following:

Research Inspiration is an integer tracked on the Company Portal. It defaults to 0 and can only be changed as described in the subrule “Research and Development”.

In the subrule “Research & Development’’ change the 2nd step of the Atomic Action to research a box to read the following:

* Divide the result by 10 then add Research Inspiration to determine the value for the new material.


Add to the subrule “Research & Development” the following

* Set Research Inspiration to 0.

As a Weekday Action, an Employee may study existing box materials by performing the following atomic action:

* Roll NDICE(5N) where N is the number of materials already on the materials table, divided by 5, rounded down.
* Increase Research Inspiration by the result of the highest roll.
* If the rule “Equity” exists, then increase by 1 the Options of each Employee in their own Department. If it does not, then any player may remove this step from the ruleset.

 

R&D was going to quickly hit a dead stop, rules as written. There’s a hard cap on the number and quality of materials we can make and rerolling the same numbers doesn’t do anything like it does for the other departments, so I figured I could correct both in one swing.

Comments

Snisbo: she/they

16-01-2022 18:41:46 UTC

I immediately see that we weren’t going to hit a dead stop. I still think R&D will run out of option much sooner than the others, so I’m leaving this up.

Brendan: he/him

16-01-2022 19:07:45 UTC

I think that as currently written, “can only be changed by someone in the Research and Development department” might be interpreted to say that an R&D Employee could change the number to whatever they want? The restriction of “An Employee may only perform actions described in this subrule if they belong to the Research & Development Department” should cover the atomic action without requiring that clause.

Snisbo: she/they

16-01-2022 19:25:38 UTC

Good point!

Zack: he/him

16-01-2022 22:51:25 UTC

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Josh: he/they

16-01-2022 23:17:35 UTC

imperial

Raven1207: he/they

16-01-2022 23:29:45 UTC

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Darknight: he/him

16-01-2022 23:30:02 UTC

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Trapdoorspyder: he/him

16-01-2022 23:42:48 UTC

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Brendan: he/him

17-01-2022 00:24:17 UTC

for

Lulu: she/her

17-01-2022 13:15:58 UTC

for

Clucky: he/him

17-01-2022 22:12:28 UTC

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