[X] [CC] Keep calm, carry on. (Continue programming)
[X] [Tour] No go
[X] Read How to Win Friends and Influence People (Difficulty: I can read! It's just the whole talking part is hard...)(Reward: Social?)
Don't bother with a local tournament at this point. Perfect our bot, then have them go to competition. The comp at this point isn't worth it and we already qualified for states
[X] [CC] Minor Complexity shift to Driver
[X] [Tour] Go (-1 Expense)
[X] Rewrite logbook (Difficulty: At least starting over makes this easier, I guess?) (Reward: Better logbook??)
[X] [CC] Minor Complexity Shift to Driver
[X] [Tour] Go (-1 Expense)
[X] Logbook ahahah your team isn't letting you touch it. Darn, guess you have to read that book after all.
A/N: Since the tie wasn't getting broken I decided to rule it this way; justification will be given in update.
"Look at it this way, Colene; since we've decided for whatever reason to go to this next tournament, we're gonna need to get that code done ASAP. And besides, for the last few times it's brain frickin dead to drive; I can deal with making it a little trickier to handle."
"Okay, okay, I got it."
Programming Complexity Limit lowered!
Driver Complexity increased!
"Hey Colene?"
"Yeah?"
"Why did we ever let you touch the logbook?"
"Because I'm the best at everything?"
"If what I'm reading is right, no, you have no frickin clue how to write useful documentation in any way whatsoever. Your sister's right, we can't have you writing in this without you getting way better with considering how the logbook's user is gonna use it."
"Seriously?"
"Deadly."
A/N: I gave you that book for a reason, and today it delivers, making you almost 50% better at talking.
With an exasperated eye, Colene reread How to Win Friends and Influence People.Yet again, every word on the page seemed to be slipping by, as they had before.
Colene sighed. She wasn't actually getting better at doing anything but reading the same lines in bed over and over again. Flopping down, Colene looked up the star painted ceiling and wondered what she did wrong; she had been right when it came to who was the best at everything except talking to people. But why was she so bad at talking to people?
Out of ideas and frustrated that her mind kept spinning on, knowing she wouldn't get any sleep for a while anyway, Colene cracked open the accursed book to a random page on a whim.
On the page, as if to laugh at her, in black bold and framed:
The only way to get man to do anything is to arouse in him an eager want.
A/N: I'll probably edit this for accuracy if I've gotten it wrong
Something seemed familiar about it.
"Consider how the user uses it."
Colene frowned. That was just common sense, wasn't it?
But then she thought of the logbook again; the simplifications, the abbreviations she'd littered in all over the place, writing the whole thing in her own shorthand?
And, and, just yesterday demanding the computer instead of pointing out how her own use might be more beneficial to the team?
Oh.
Oh geez.
Colene could do a whole lot better, couldn't she?
"Alright, all systems functional!"
There's four weeks left, and the clock's ticking. Do you hand the robot off for Ahmad to work his magic?
[] Recruit at your school (Difficulty: Should be pretty easy, right? Everybody will want to join me, robotics is great and I'm so good at it!) (Reward: ??? teammate)
[] Recruit in the wild (Difficulty: I dunno, randomly looking for people probably isn't a good idea, and they probably aren't that great) (Reward: ??? teammate)
[] Try to get corporate sponsorships (Difficulty: Those suits will be falling all over themselves to support a new cool STEM program, right?) (Reward: ??? Revenue)
[] Try to get money from friends and family (Difficulty: Huh, my immediate family's pretty receptive. I wonder if my distant relatives are the same?) (Rewards: ??? Expenses)
[] Try to get donations from random people (Difficulty: It worked for the Girl Scouts, why won't it work for me?) (Reward: ??? Expenses)
[] Try to get a job (Difficulty: Some minimum wage job should be willing to hire fourteen year olds, right?)(Reward: 1 Revenue)
[] Read How to Win Friends and Influence People (Difficulty: I can read! It's just the whole talking part is hard...)(Reward: Social?)
[] Programming Tutorial (Difficulty: How do I find the good ones for robotics?) (Reward: Software+)
[] Sketch a design (Difficulty: Not hard at all) (Reward: One time bonus to Hardware check)
[] Logbook entries! (Difficulty: At least starting over makes this easier, I guess?) (Reward: Better logbook??)
[] Chat with Mrs. Conner (Difficulty: I literally see her almost every day) (Reward: ???)
[] Forum Crawl (Difficulty: Too easy, nothing to learn here, right?) (Reward: ???)
[] Write in (veto/approval/reinterpretation at GM discretion)
[X] Write in : Figure out how to manage your time better(More actions per week)
Yeah with only one free action we keep fighting over the same couple options. It's not really engaging. If we can get an extra action -- even if it's dedicated to some subset of our actions, we're gonna get more out of it.
You also might want to consider more time compression. Like instead of going week by week we go month by month, or something like that. It lets things move along faster, and we might be able to vote on things other than what we do every turn
Yeah with only one free action we keep fighting over the same couple options. It's not really engaging. If we can get an extra action -- even if it's dedicated to some subset of our actions, we're gonna get more out of it.
You also might want to consider more time compression. Like instead of going week by week we go month by month, or something like that. It lets things move along faster, and we might be able to vote on things other than what we do every turn
You aren't actually locked into a week by week time compression, though I understand I may have worded it misleadingly; all you have to do is vote for multiple Free Time Actions and multiple weeks pass. In fact, you guys the voters did this in the run up to the Second Tournament; two weeks passed by in a single turn there.
FYI, I'm interpreting the find more time option as both "scrape more time out" and "talk with Mrs. Connelly". That should open up an option, considering you're still babysitting her little demon daughter.
[X] [Switch] No (continues Programming)
[X] Write in : Figure out how to manage your time better (More actions per week)
"No, Ahmad, you don't get to drive yet, dammit!"
"But the tournament's literally four weeks away!"
"Yeah, but we're not losing autonomous so you can drive!"
"Fine, fine..."
"Mrs. Connelly, would you mind giving me some advice?"
"What would you need, Colene?"
"I keep feeling like I don't have enough time to do the things I want. Could you help me with that?"
"Well, there's one thing I can think of that's really obvious, and a few others that might not be so obvious."
"Yeah?"
"The big one is to stop babysitting my daughter, but I'd like to first find someone else to do it and I can't really pay you for doing nothing either. It does free up a lot of time for you, though."
"Huh."
"There's a few other things, but honestly they're probably not worth trying right now; anything else is just going to be small potatoes compared to just not babysitting anymore."
Do you?
[] [Baby] Quit right now (+1 Free Time per week, - 1 Revenue, probable Mrs. Connelly disapproval)
[] [Baby] Quit next week (+1 Free Time starting next week, -1 Revenue starting next week, disapproval unlikely)
[] [Baby] Don't quit
"Are you ready to let me drive yet? There's only three weeks left, you know."
Free Time! 1 Free Time available per week! (unless, of course, you picked quit right now, in which case you get to backfill one action)
[] Recruit at your school (Difficulty: Should be pretty easy, right? Everybody will want to join me, robotics is great and I'm so good at it!) (Reward: ??? teammate)
[] Recruit in the wild (Difficulty: I dunno, randomly looking for people probably isn't a good idea, and they probably aren't that great) (Reward: ??? teammate)
[] Try to get corporate sponsorships (Difficulty: Those suits will be falling all over themselves to support a new cool STEM program, right?) (Reward: ??? Revenue)
[] Try to get money from friends and family (Difficulty: Huh, my immediate family's pretty receptive. I wonder if my distant relatives are the same?) (Rewards: ??? Expenses)
[] Try to get donations from random people (Difficulty: It worked for the Girl Scouts, why won't it work for me?) (Reward: ??? Expenses)
[] Try to get a job (Difficulty: Some minimum wage job should be willing to hire fourteen year olds, right?)(Reward: 1 Revenue)
[] Read How to Win Friends and Influence People (Difficulty: I can read! It's just the whole talking part is hard...)(Reward: Social?)
[] Programming Tutorial (Difficulty: How do I find the good ones for robotics?) (Reward: Software+)
[] Sketch a design (Difficulty: Not hard at all) (Reward: One time bonus to Hardware check)
[] Logbook entries! (Difficulty: At least starting over makes this easier, I guess?) (Reward: Better logbook??)
[] Chat with Mrs. Conner (Difficulty: I literally see her almost every day) (Reward: ???)
[] Forum Crawl (Difficulty: Too easy, nothing to learn here, right?) (Reward: ???)
[] Write in (veto/approval/reinterpretation at GM discretion)
[X] [Baby] Quit next week (+1 Free Time starting next week, -1 Revenue starting next week, disapproval unlikely)
[X] [Switch] Yes (stops Programming, starts Wetware)
[X] Read How to Win Friends and Influence People (Difficulty: I can read! It's just the whole talking part is hard...)(Reward: Social?)
[X] [Baby] Quit next week (+1 Free Time starting next week, -1 Revenue starting next week, disapproval unlikely)
[X] [Switch] Yes (stops Programming, starts Wetware)
[X] Read How to Win Friends and Influence People (Difficulty: I can read! It's just the whole talking part is hard...)(Reward: Social?)
[X] [Baby] Quit next week (+1 Free Time starting next week, -1 Revenue starting next week, disapproval unlikely)
[X] [Switch] Yes (stops Programming, starts Wetware)
[X] Read How to Win Friends and Influence People (Difficulty: I can read! It's just the whole talking part is hard...)(Reward: Social?)
Guys that job is our only source of revenue for the foreseeable future. Don't quit unless you want to have to worry about money again. (Which would mean no competitions other than what we need to do)
Not that I expect anyone to even attempt to disagree, but attempting discussion is something this thread needs.
[X] [Baby] Don't quit
[X] [Switch] Yes (stops Programming, starts Wetware)
[X] Read How to Win Friends and Influence People (Difficulty: I can read! It's just the whole talking part is hard...)(Reward: Social?)
Guys that job is our only source of revenue for the foreseeable future. Don't quit unless you want to have to worry about money again. (Which would mean no competitions other than what we need to do)
Not that I expect anyone to even attempt to disagree, but attempting discussion is something this thread needs.
Be that as it may, with the extra time we can train social and and do bonus creation each turn leading up to the match. And after that's over we can try getting a sponsorship which should solve the money problem.
Be that as it may, with the extra time we can train social and and do bonus creation each turn leading up to the match. And after that's over we can try getting a sponsorship which should solve the money problem.
Not really. It's hard to get a sponsorship when you're a high school team, and even if we weren't horrible at talking, we're still a freshman. They'll definitely be an option later, but this year they probably won't be.
[X] [Baby] Quit next week (+1 Free Time starting next week, -1 Revenue starting next week, disapproval unlikely)
[X] [Switch] Yes (stops Programming, starts Wetware)
[X] Read How to Win Friends and Influence People (Difficulty: I can read! It's just the whole talking part is hard...)(Reward: Social?)
"Yeah, I think I'm gonna have to take you up on that. I just don't feel like there's enough hours in the day, you know?"
Mrs. Connelly sighed.
"Alright, I understand."
"Thanks, Mrs. Connelly."
"Yeah. Go nuts."
Ahmad's face lit up.
"Sweet."
The way he drives makes it clear too; every movement he makes gets sharper, the robot flying around the field in a way Colene knew was only possible due to the changes Colene made.
At this rate, this tournament's gonna be a cinch.
After realizing what a goldmine that book was, Colene picked up "How to Win Friends and Influence People" again. Sure, she was reading it almost every week, but dammit it worked last time!
Only for all the words to slide in her brain and right out, this week.
Why was self-improvement so haaard?
"Damn. We're back in business."
Ahmad bumped Colene's extended fist.
"Yep. Now watch me make this thing fly."
Free Time! 2 Free Time available per week!
[] Recruit at your school (Difficulty: Should be pretty easy, right? Everybody will want to join me, robotics is great and I'm so good at it!) (Reward: ??? teammate)
[] Recruit in the wild (Difficulty: I dunno, randomly looking for people probably isn't a good idea, and they probably aren't that great) (Reward: ??? teammate)
[] Try to get corporate sponsorships (Difficulty: Those suits will be falling all over themselves to support a new cool STEM program, right?) (Reward: ??? Revenue)
[] Try to get money from friends and family (Difficulty: Huh, my immediate family's pretty receptive. I wonder if my distant relatives are the same?) (Rewards: ??? Expenses)
[] Try to get donations from random people (Difficulty: It worked for the Girl Scouts, why won't it work for me?) (Reward: ??? Expenses)
[] Try to get a job (Difficulty: Some minimum wage job should be willing to hire fourteen year olds, right?)(Reward: 1 Revenue)
[] Read How to Win Friends and Influence People (Difficulty: It worked! Well, once, but it'll work again, right?)(Reward: Social?)
[] Programming Tutorial (Difficulty: How do I find the good ones for robotics?) (Reward: Software+) (note: requires doing Software that week)
[] Sketch a design (Difficulty: Not hard at all) (Reward: One time bonus to Hardware check) (note: requires doing Hardware that week)
[] Logbook entries! (Difficulty: At least starting over makes this easier, I guess?) (Reward: Better logbook??)
[] Chat with Mrs. Conner (Difficulty: Well, this is awkward) (Reward: ???)
[] Forum Crawl (Difficulty: Too easy, nothing to learn here, right?) (Reward: ???)
[] Write in (veto/approval/reinterpretation at GM discretion)
[X] Read How to Win Friends and Influence People (Difficulty: It worked! Well, once, but it'll work again, right?)(Reward: Social?)
[X] Logbook entries! (Difficulty: At least starting over makes this easier, I guess?) (Reward: Better logbook??)
Week 1
[X] Read How to Win Friends and Influence People (Difficulty: It worked! Well, once, but it'll work again, right?)(Reward: Social?)
[X] Logbook entries! (Difficulty: At least starting over makes this easier, I guess?) (Reward: Better logbook??)
Week 2
[X] Read How to Win Friends and Influence People (Difficulty: It worked! Well, once, but it'll work again, right?)(Reward: Social?)
[X] Logbook entries! (Difficulty: At least starting over makes this easier, I guess?) (Reward: Better logbook??)
Let's jump to the tournament, and grind the two things we keep failing on.
Week 1
[X] Read How to Win Friends and Influence People (Difficulty: It worked! Well, once, but it'll work again, right?)(Reward: Social?)
[X] Logbook entries! (Difficulty: At least starting over makes this easier, I guess?) (Reward: Better logbook??)
Week 2
[X] Read How to Win Friends and Influence People (Difficulty: It worked! Well, once, but it'll work again, right?)(Reward: Social?)
[X] Logbook entries! (Difficulty: At least starting over makes this easier, I guess?) (Reward: Better logbook??)
Week 1
[X] Read How to Win Friends and Influence People (Difficulty: It worked! Well, once, but it'll work again, right?)(Reward: Social?)
[X] Logbook entries! (Difficulty: At least starting over makes this easier, I guess?) (Reward: Better logbook??)
Week 2
[X] Read How to Win Friends and Influence People (Difficulty: It worked! Well, once, but it'll work again, right?)(Reward: Social?)
[X] Logbook entries! (Difficulty: At least starting over makes this easier, I guess?) (Reward: Better logbook??)