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Attempting to Subvert the Plan: Dominion Edition

Retcon: Should General Horner (the MC) have been The Magistrate (Starcraft 1 PC)?

  • Yes

    Votes: 35 43.8%

  • No

    Votes: 29 36.3%

  • This does not matter to me

    Votes: 16 20.0%
  • Total voters
    80
  • Poll closed .
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Dain24601 said:
[X] 4% of overall Treasury income
Yeah let's not rock the boat more than we already have. Remember, these resources come out of our budget. We're sacrificing resources which can be used anywhere for one's which can only be used for personal.
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Guys, one we need the actual Personal budget, and two, because of the Paranoia reduction of the Budget Negotiations and the Suspicion gain, we are now at 15 and cannot go below 10. So that's basically wasting a whole ton of money pointlessly.
 
Dain24601 said:
[X] 4% of overall Treasury income
Yeah let's not rock the boat more than we already have. Remember, these resources come out of our budget. We're sacrificing resources which can be used anywhere for one's which can only be used for personal.
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Do you know the name of the Quest? We literally cannot survive on a budget cut like that for Personal, and we also get no advantage from it because we're at 15 Paranoia and our Paranoia already resets to 10 each turn.
 
I'm not interested in +15 Paranoia.

[X] 8% of overall Treasury income

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ok initial thought aside, let me think on this. We have 15 Paranoia and this 30, not end of world. I'm still not sure where I stand on this.
 
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The reason the plans with -10 Paranoia won was specifically to pay for the cost of the fixed budget, which is needed to actually defeat Mengsk. In this case, we started the Budget Negotiations at 25 Paranoia, went down to 15, and at 10% would go up to the towering heights of 30... lower than we STARTED the Quest with.
 
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So reading the descriptions the first option has me raising an eyebrow at potential future options.

Also the numbers don't include the +15 we get from personal investments. So 8 gives us more than we have now.

I'm still not sure.

Oh. I wonder if we can corporatize those private investments into an actual functional company. That would really be nifty.

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We have 4 personal dice. Actions go between 5 and 15 F per dice. Meaning right now at max that's 60, but I doubt we would throw four dice at a 15 F project. I think 8% is manageable.
 
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HeruKane said:
So reading the descriptions the first option has me raising an eyebrow at potential future options.

Also the numbers don't include the +15 we get from personal investments. So 8 gives us more than we have now.

I'm still not sure.

Oh. I wonder if we can corporatize those private investments into an actual functional company. That would really be nifty.

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We have 4 personal dice. Actions go between 5 and 15 F per dice. Meaning right now at max that's 60, but I doubt we would throw four dice at a 15 F project. I think 8% is manageable.
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We have four personal dice, plus the ability to get two others *plus* a bunch of actions that cost -5 F per turn.

10% is frankly NOT ENOUGH right now, but it's the most we can do, so.
 
In fairness, we are well positioned to take a big slice and get away with it. There are limits to the value of "playing it safe," especially with Paranoia being so close to the Suspicion floor.

[X] 10% of overall Treasury income
[X] 8% of overall Treasury income

The Laurent said:
We have four personal dice, plus the ability to get two others *plus* a bunch of actions that cost -5 F per turn.

10% is frankly NOT ENOUGH right now, but it's the most we can do, so.
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At 10%, we're swinging a total of 60 FpT and that number's only going to increase. If we exhibit even a little bit of common sense about not splurging cash on the priciest options on the list every single turn, I think it's going to be enough to pull off our win condition. It may not be enough for maximalist speed-run (which is one reason we need to increase the actual size of the economy), but I think it'll be enough.
 
So even if you want to play it safe the 8% option is safe. The +5 Paranoia is not a bad hit.

I honestly really do think the 4% and the 6% options would lead to us going backward.

I'm liking the 8% but I would also not be sad if we went 10%.
 
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Simon_Jester said:
In fairness, we are well positioned to take a big slice and get away with it. There are limits to the value of "playing it safe," especially with Paranoia being so close to the Suspicion floor.

[X] 10% of overall Treasury income
[X] 8% of overall Treasury income

At 10%, we're swinging a total of 60 FpT and that number's only going to increase. If we exhibit even a little bit of common sense about not splurging cash on the priciest options on the list every single turn, I think it's going to be enough to pull off our win condition. It may not be enough for maximalist speed-run (which is one reason we need to increase the actual size of the economy), but I think it'll be enough.
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It might be enough eventually, but this year it's not enough because we're going to have to leave extra Personal dice on the table because it's significantly too expensive. I think in the long term of the next few years it's enough, but in "this year" it's going to be a very thin budget indeed.

I think we'll have to leave Worker AID and the Space Station out of it, and just do the TRUST Unions (big bonuses, new options, and +3 Union make it a better bet than worker Aid Station) and the VIE (Extra die, DC fixing), among the -5 F options we have, for this coming year.
 
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