There was no disagreement on this first point I think that was just a breakdown of communication. I know that fewer conservatives will attend the academy well we have lowered standing with them my counterpoint to this was simply that there's no way around having lowered standing with them as either we take it now or we take it later but regardless of when we take it there's not going to be an instant +1 conservative standing we're going to be able to grab for it to compensate as we're doing with portions of the academy currently, therefore, we might as well do it now.
You grabbed the middle paragraph before I finished editing it after the fact which I think is why it's hard to parse. Would you like to clarify why you don't what the library? I've read your posts on the subject but your reasoning has changed slightly from post to post on the subject. Same with not taking four maximums.
With regards to the academy's proving period, I would note that the academy has a proving period every time we make a change so there's again not really a change from doing it all now versus later beside you know doing it incrementally losing us more standing in the long run.
Not sure what you mean about my reasoning changing, it hasn't from my perspective after I dropped Dutch's plan which I outlined why at the time. I'm just trying to make it clearer since that event.
I do not want the library maxed out because while we can be secure here, in the workshop, taking the maximum now means that throughout the entire Far North people start to get the idea that it is okay to write down certain information with the methods of recording information we have right now. I do not want dwarves normalizing that. Even for reagent stuff. The lower levels are fine because it
doesn't push that normalization to anything beyond the walls of this Rhuniversity/Rhunkazadi (Rune Fortress).
Runelore is irrelevant in this consideration.
Once we get a means of making something like Holocrons, or even just intelligent DRM that can protect the knowledge it is placed on without the presence of a dwarf guarding the knowledge I'll be fine with expanding it. If a thief picks a knowledge container up and takes it away and then tries to access it, it deletes itself, is the minimum for what I want and something I expect would be a dumb "holocron". That's pretty close to what the Rune of Awakening can do. I do not want to max out the library because of
timing and so the counterpoint that we might as well do it now is not actually addressing my core issue. I have a completely different priority order than you where the infosec risk and our record keeping capabilities are
higher priority than any standing gains or losses.
If we max out the library right now and maintain 10 Standing with everyone, with less than four maximums, we will have maximum possible attendance from Conservatives and Radicals and achieve three of my four goals: gaining full attendance, minimizing length and scope of controversy, kept Snorri's stress down, and dug a hole in our infosec around reagents. I'm not satisfied with that.
This essentially forces me to accept that since I
do want to normalize the writing down of certain information when we have a more secure means, that I'll have to go for expanding the library later. Does this lose us more Standing in total? Oh yeah very likely unless something changes. If we go down to 8 Conservative Standing and 9 Radical Standing after expanding it and suffer an attendance lost, so be it. That price is enough for an assurance of complete infosec, up to and including reagents, and that price isn't as bad because we'll have had a number of centuries of full attendance.
To put this another way: Comparing a scenario of Full Attendance for Entire University Run with lower Infosec, and a scenario of Full Infosec with a Reduction in Attendance for Entire University Run I'll take the second.
