Right, exactly. Patronizing some two-bit thugs is fine, but leaving the place open for one of those new-fangled drug rings to push in? Not in my Doofania.
Something that I'll point out is that even with Technor and XP we only have a 52% chance to succeed, even with a reroll I'm not confident enough with that to risk it
I'm tempted to agree but my inner worrywart kinda doesn't want to use an Inator if we're not taking the tinkering personal action
Honestly the difference between Mirage doing it and Russ doing it isn't that significant
If we put non-overclocked technor on the think tank action, and spend 1000xp to reduce DC and with a reroll, here are the outcomes:
I think changing your learning action to Form a Think Tank would be a bad idea, because it would either be going without a 'personal attention' reroll, or it would take away the reroll from Toontown railroad. Your plan is kind of built around doing Toontown Railroad and Blue Hawaii at the same time.
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One last thing, I noticed a C here.
let's assume that the AI research lowers the DC by 10. So we spend two actions, and roll once with about a 60% chance of success. Not exact numbers here, I just want to illustrate the probability.
Same logic for me.
"Two bit thugs" aren't organized crime, which is what we would be assimilating. "Organized crime" refers to things like the Mafia, Yakuza, local gangbangers, etcetera. That is not the same thing as someone robbing a gas station.
I agree with those who want to eliminate organized crime in Doofania, rather than assimilating it. As for Learning, I would rather work on the Think Tank action, with Technor and Doof doubling down on it. If Vanessa needs to be assigned to an action, I suppose she could try poaching people from Kronos, although I would rather have her prepare for college and improve her stats in the process. Lastly, assigning Genghis to the company retreat promises hilarity, to say nothing of how it takes advantage of his high Stewardship.
Aside from a moral stance, what do we gain that outweighs the underworld contacts and being able to control who does what in the shadows? Right now we are blind in the underworld. We desperately need to get feelers in there to find out who is taking over what turf.
Normally, sure, but all of the big organized crime in our territory has recently been trashed by ants and volcanoes:
We're explicitly sweeping up dregs and using them as an early warning network of someone tries to start something like a drug ring with us. I'll happily accept keeping some guttertrash mobsters around if we can use them as a sacrificial warning system for any of the new drug-peddlers or mysterious forces that assimilated, like, half the country's crime last turn.
Well, fair. On the other hand, his stats aren't great- which is not to say he brings nothing to the table given how minmaxed some of the OTHER people coming along are, mind you!
Yes, exactly.
The big X-factor is where/if we spend personal attention rolls. The DC on Think Tank and Update the City Council look a lot better when we give them personal attention, but we can only focus that in one direction at a time. So if we're specifically expecting a very strong Learning hero next turn, then it actually may pay off to do things like AI research and Kronos recruitment this turn, even knowing the DC reduction is limited, so that next turn we can reasonably hope to do one of the double-action actions with Doof's personal attention (and fairly high odds of success), and the other without it (and bad but not as bad odds of success).
