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On reflection, I don’t like this change because we already have a push-your-luck game in place, and this just makes the luck part… uh, pushier. I think it will end up compounding the Safety Check lead of the early players who get good dice rolls at the right time, forcing less-initially-lucky players to wait for more instability to try to catch up, and likely leading to a lot of “might as well idle” frustration if that fails. A well-timed weekly action would be a useful angle when running behind, but this change would remove that option.

While I totally see your point here, isn’t part of the issue that the we are quickly getting to a place where there is little reason to build outside of an inspection? This makes sure that since you can only run an inspection once per building there is slightly more intensive to build even if that means an accident, just to get a shot at running an inspection on a building with even more gaps. Of course that doesn’t address the issue for behind players.

I think the basic push axis of “the longer you wait the higher your score and the higher the chance the tower will fall” makes sense. The “well-timed weekly action” seems as useful for a leading player as a lagging one.