If one wants questers to take a specific option, it must be presented as a mystery box. People always go for those.
That's how I saw it as well. All of the build options are good in different ways, but won't be finished before this crisis is over.
What is playing it safe or not playing it safe in regards to real life?
My problem with this "don't be in the workshop so much" is that implementing it is harder than one makes it sound.
I don't think it will happen if we don't work at it. Magic will happen; This quest has shown that even if we don't utilize it actively during a week, something with it will happen. But we look at the mundane side of things, where our MGs are human beings? There's plenty to work on there that Medicine Boy can do, and that gives Homer or whoever a chance to at least start on things in the workshop. And if they don't finish for whatever reason, Medicine Boy will probably want to know what they've been doing. That informs us of options.
I was going to say 'I got stuck sitting in the medic's waiting room for 5 hours with a 102.4 fever in Basic Training, and all they did was give me zithromax and 3 days bedrest, it's not that bad', but then I see that.... er...
We are in a deep hole, and consistently picking the less- or no-risk option has only dug us deeper. Straight WoG is this is not a viable long-term path. And the problems with this were noticed and pointed out. What made you think the other options were risk-free? Every crafting roll has a chance of problems. And continuously picking 'no risk' in the week-to-week options just builds up the larger problems and risks we're not grappling with because of that avoidance. We have a major demon problem coming in 2 weeks, and we've frittered away our time. And that is the voters fault.
Err... this doesn't sound right. The mechanics were dealt out piecemeal and some were changed partway through. We still don't know if our equipment has any mechanical impact or if so, what it is, or how Intel works besides how it's generated.
The win state is surviving long enough to achieve stable sustainability.
Suboptimal decisions are wrong decisions you goof...
No... you're missing the point. Having them stay alive doesn't enhance the overall sustainability. Cities are not regularly falling to shadowy threats, and the Powers That Be behind the magical girls don't see anything wrong with the results they're getting. By extension, the standard technique of "constantly create new magical girls and throw them into the grinder" actually works. Having said magical girls triumph and thus survive much more often is great and all, but it doesn't actually do all that much for the kind of sustainability we're looking at here. Right now, our issue is "more magical girls than we can support", not "insufficient magical girls to face the current threat", and we can basically expect that to continue.
I'll note a really severe difference between "this will men that it's possible to get new crafters eventually" and "we will totally get at least one new crafter soon if we do this". Let's not sell ourselves the latter when the truth is the former.
You're the one that's confused here friend... Assuming the pre crisis events and the current situation are that different is flawed. Keeping all local MGs alive has never been a reachable goal at any point in this quest.
Reversed the priorities, our early mindset was 'equip MGs, spend the remainder on ourselves' it should have been, 'focus on ourselves, spend whatever extras we can scrounge on MGs'.
Why do you think we're in a death spiral?
Just a feeling mostly, the fact that even after the QM has started offering hints everyone is still blaming everyone else and there's no cohesion doesn't help.
