Why do people keep proposing more elaborate variations on “grind every day or else?”

I agree with Brendan; there’s no way I’m voting for this, and I’m one of the people most likely to benefit from it; this is supposed to be a game in the theme of a job, not an eerie recreation

@Brendan Or else what? There’s no win condition.

I get it now, you like the options system because there’s potential for you to make money even if you’re not doing the most actions. I can try and quickly reword this so it tweaks how many options you get based on productivity and not automatically getting them for doing anything, because as it stands now the system is not working as intended.

@Brendan @Josh I reworked the proposal so it still depends on the options system, but it gets rid of the incentive formula and increases your options based on how much what you did contributed to the company.

this seems to reward people who use up more of the company budget rather than those of us who are responsible and only use up $1 of company budget

If you spend $1 of the company budget to make a box we can’t sell, your options lose value because we’re not seeing a profit on those boses. Alternatively, if you spend the entire budget, you get more options but they’re worthless because it stops production. You need to spend some of the budget to get some options so we can get more budget and your options are worth more.

but here everyone wants to make/research the most expensive stuff as possible. which I suppose works, but a) you just wind up rewarding people who get lucky enough to roll high and b) you wind up running a risk of all the eggs being put into one basket and one low roll loses everything

I mean, you aren’t the arbiter of what “everyone wants”, and also everyone making expensive stuff that we can use/sell is better than everyone making junk that flushes money down the toilet.

This is a much more palatable revision, but in self-interest, I still think I need to vote against—I can’t see any way that R&D doesn’t get the short end of the stick here. If I create a Material that is worth 3, and thereby get 0.3 options for my action, Manufacturing and Sales get the potential to make and sell a box worth 30, each netting a tidy 3 options per action.

Unplugging Options from the Job Title system without repealing the Job Title system, and before we’ve got the Job Title system really working, feels like it’s jumping the gun a little.