I disagree. Remember that in character, the tokyo drops/bounties happen before the hunting results are in. The girls will see the cube buffer skyrocketing, long before they see the hunting is insufficient. IC, I don't think there is any uncertainty, that's just an artifact of how we're doing stuff OOC.
The girls are handling the hunting schedule. They can add up what the projected harvest is going to be. It certainly won't be a 'surprise' for them to find out later in the month.
So the problem is that everyone will know how much we should be harvesting from normal hunting right from the start, but won't have any clear certainty on what we'll be getting from Tokyo. We know how much we
should be getting, but it's still an uncertainty.
Still not sure if we can even use these. We're not sending anyone into Tokyo with leather armor, are we?
Are we planning on possibly handing out any armor to the Tokyo elites who we might possibly get to join us? That was estimated at 6 to 12, and we have no idea what equipment they might have. Presumably if we do, they'll keep it for the remainder of the time they're working for us. (I'll assume that if/when this happens, we'll get the paired kevlar vests from Nagoya, so not adding that right now.)
Because I have no idea what we might be using there, I was just leaving the non-kevlar hunting armor at leather (which is all that's needed for any of the plans). Of those, I need 5 more sets of leather for hunting plan 2, and 1 more set for hunting plan 2a. Since the choice now seems to be between plans 1a and 2b, I don't actually need any additional leather armor for those.
So, I can drop the leather purchases, and can just call in extra purchases later if we find we need that.
I don't think we should commit to Stage Two actions until we see how Stage One goes. Also, lack of plan to deal with Tokyo girls is pretty big.
Stage 2 is mostly to note that there
is a stage 2, and we only go there if we find the results of stage 1 acceptable (which pretty much has to be a player confirmation).
Dealing with the Tokyo girls is also a thing to vote for if/when it happens. Like many of the other contingencies, it's setting the answer to a possible future vote, when we could just have the vote as the event goes along.
Third, I don't think Tokyo Diplomacy is plausible as anything other than a backlog item, because I don't think it's safe to do at all until we have already made significant progress on clearing Tokyo, including killing the eyeball.
This bothers me as well. Connecting with people will be difficult, and we don't want to be sending people through the city while the eyeball is still out there (and even without the eyeball, it's still risky).
On the other hand, I can't imagine this being at all useful if we haven't gotten started on it right from the start of the month. It's going to take
at least a week, probably two, to get enough of this set up to even start being useful. If we kill the beholder at the end of the second week, and only start things up
after that, the sensor net does us almost no good at all, and is just a waste of manpower.
Because of the way this was described (an information tree), I've been assuming we'd be starting contact with the girls we already are in contact with, and get them to find/contact others, who in turn find/contact others that
they know, and so on and so forth. Some of those further contactees will have phones, and we can add them to direct contact points, but we wouldn't be handing out phones to everyone.
In that manner, it's taking time to make contact with each additional network node, all of which will be feeding information upwards to the ones we
are in contact with. And that takes time to set up. If we're lucky, by the end of the second week we'll have enough set up to be a functional tool for the needs we have for tracking down the teleporters in the last half of the month.
Though, again, this assumes we need this complexity for tracking down and killing the teleporters. Well, most likely it will only be needed for the last handful of really annoying and hard-to-catch teleporters, but those are also the ones that could most likely prevent us from having a complete finish of the city within the month. And the general information network is itself valuable, in terms of connecting us to all the Tokyo locals.
So the final question is, how is this being carried out? If it requires physically canvasing the city for a couple weeks, I'm very leery about it (though it's still possible to do, using the type of contact arrangements Nagoya did when they were passing out aid supplies). However if it's just a very long run of "Call A, who calls B, who can tell you how to get in touch with C, etc", then it seems more viable.
We will have a large number of vets going around talking to people.
Not exactly. Even if I'm somewhat concerned about it, making physical contact with groups the way Nagoya did with their aid system mainly needs a lot of manhours arranging contacts and contact points, with a lesser amount of time sending a few people to speak in person (if necessary). More likely, it's five girls constantly tracking down leads across the city, and then handing the phone to Mami for a bit of talking (with my split of 0.5 Mami/5.5 vets).
Again, though, this is going to be a GM call:
@inverted_helix - What type of involvement and activity would building the sensor net entail?
Okay... added for now while mulling it over. I wish I had a link to the post that discussed all the burner phone options. I have to head to work, so I don't have time to dig through the thread right now.
In
this post, the second comment has
@TheEyes' initial estimates, and helix's response on it.
