Wednesday, August 02, 2023

Proposal: Steering and Salaries

Withdrawn. Failed by Kevan.

Adminned at 02 Aug 2023 14:48:17 UTC

If a Facility exists called Steerage Override, change its function to “Pay a number of Valves equal to the number of Locations in the Destination list to add your choice of Location to the top of the Destination list.”

In the rule “Damage and Repair”, change “A Machinist may Repair the megasystem they inhabit: they pay 1 of a Component to delete one of that type from its Damaged Parts, add the details to a new Repair Log entry and increase their Baubles by 3.” to “A Machinist may Repair the megasystem they inhabit: they pay 1 of a Component to delete one of that type from its Damaged Parts and add the details to a new Repair Log entry.”

Create two new Facilities with the following details:

System of Dwelling || Machinist Compensation Office || 0 || DORMANT || In each Repair Log, remove all entries listing dates more than 2 days in the past and give each Machinist 5 Baubles for each removed entry bearing their name.
System of Control || Loyalty Evaluator || 0 || DORMANT || Choose one Megasystem and remove all entries from its Repair Log. The Machinist (or Machinists, if tied) whose name appears the most in the removed entries receives Valves equal to the number of removed entries their name appears in minus one. All other Machinists receive one randomly selected Component for each removed entry bearing their name.

Remove the step “Randomly pick a Component and add one of that Component to each Machinist’s Components.” from the atomic action in “Time’s Passage”.

Remove all current entries from all three Repair Logs.

for the record, my statement about being “inclined to reward” Bucky for repairing the Great Machine was mostly a bit of whimsy — i’d really just forgotten to take that into account! here’s another try at the Facilities proposal that doesn’t double-play Machinists. currently-existing Repair Log entries will end up having been payed a bit less, but the pay increase exists primarily to offset the loss of ease and quickness, which past repairers have certainly benefitted from.

Comments

lemon: she/her

02-08-2023 13:54:10 UTC

against withdrawing — on second thought, it’s too late for it now.