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Who Needs Harmony?: An MLP Empire Quest

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We do use overtime though. Like turn 20 we used it to do the international antipiracy force.
Imperial Priority: Do action faster
Overtime: 1 extra action
And both are personal actions, taking up personal time to do more in less time...
 
jonasquinn said:
I mean unless I'm missing something last turn was one of the first times we've ever used the Imperial Priority

And we still went out of our way to attend Pearl's charity auction, it's not like we neglect the kids or anything
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30: Priority (duty) + Pearl Auction (family)

29: Merlin (duty) + Gilda's Hobby (both)

28: Dukes (duty) + Refugees (duty)

27: Overtime (duty) + Overtime (duty)

26: Merlin (duty) + Pearl Crystalmancy (family)

25: Overtime (duty) + Gawain Job (both)

24: Overtime (duty) + Priority (duty)

23: Council of Feathercaea (duty) + Pearl Hobby (both)

22: Overtime (duty) + Priority (duty)

21: Overtime (duty) + Overtime (duty)

20: Overtime (duty) + Meeting Gawain's Friends (family)

19: Gwyndlyn Education (both) + Pearl Education (both)

18: Gawain Education (both) + Adopt Pearl (both)

Not gonna go back farther because I think the point's well made. We've overwhelmingly spent Garrick's personal actions on attending to the empire and maximizing stats. There's literally only THREE family actions we've done for its own sake, and those are also the only ones to give on-screen character development because education and hobby actions just lead to a vote rather than Garrick actualy teaching or hanging out with them himself on-screen.

What this tells me is that I'm right in that you guys are really only willing to take actions for action-efficiency rather than genuinely letting Garrick spend his personal time away from work or otherwise letting the other characters have some character development. Literally the only family-related actions you guys have taken frequently throughout the quest are the ones that will lead to immediate stat boosts and can't be put off indefinitely like the other PA's because education and hobbies are important for his kids' stat builds.
 
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Running an empire is hard who would have thought that at all? And accusing everyone that they just want numbers to go up is pretty bad on making them change their minds?
 
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PyrrosWarrior said:
30: Priority (duty) + Pearl Auction (family)

29: Merlin (duty) + Gilda's Hobby (both)

28: Dukes (duty) + Refugees (duty)

27: Overtime (duty) + Overtime (duty)

26: Merlin (duty) + Pearl Crystalmancy (family)

25: Overtime (duty) + Gawain Job (both)

24: Overtime (duty) + Priority (duty)

23: Council of Feathercaea (duty) + Pearl Hobby (both)

22: Overtime (duty) + Priority (duty)

21: Overtime (duty) + Overtime (duty)

20: Overtime (duty) + Meeting Gawain's Friends (family)

19: Gwyndlyn Education (both) + Pearl Education (both)

18: Gawain Education (both) + Adopt Pearl (both)

Not gonna go back farther because I think the point's well made. We've overwhelmingly spent Garrick's personal actions on attending to the empire and maximizing stats. There's literally only THREE family actions we've done for its own sake, and those are also the only ones to give on-screen character development because education and hobby actions just lead to a vote rather than Garrick actualy teaching or hanging out with them himself on-screen.

What this tells me is that I'm right in that you guys are really only willing to take actions for action-efficiency rather than genuinely letting Garrick spend his personal time away from work or otherwise letting the other characters have some character development. Literally the only family-related actions you guys have taken frequently throughout the quest are the ones that will lead to immediate stat boosts and can't be put off indefinitely like the other PA's because education and hobbies are important for his kids' stat builds.
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My counter to that is that if I've gathered my data correctly of the thirteen turns you sampled only four of them actually had an available child related action that we didn't pick

And on three of those four turns we still chose at least one of said actions and to break it down even further one of those turns was turn 18 where we chose two child related actions and had to ignore the third and another was turn 30 which even you recognise was a genuine emergency that warranted it

So unless my understanding of the information is completely wrong what you've proven from your sample is that we are historically significantly more likely to take a child related option when it is available than we are not to take it
 
Questor said:
The servants of the Brissette manor had been quite surprised when a mobile puff of smoke had drifted through an open window to materialize into a scroll bearing the Imperial Seal. No strangers to handling correspondence between the lady of the house and a particular member of the Imperial family, the missive had been quietly delivered to the lady Isabelle, who had been delighted to receive correspondence from her fiancé.

They would later discover the young hen passed out in her bedchambers, an incandescent blush coloring her features even as blood dripping from her nose stained the parchment clutched between her talons. Though much of the message penned by the Heir to the Empire had been rendered illegible, the few words that could still be made out were sufficient to make the most jaded and world-weary of chambermaids flush.
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Gawain: Isabelle I'm sorry about that letter It was an accident.
Isabelle: Oh okay... *Blushes* so does that mean you don't want to do the things you...
Gawain: *Cough* We can maybe do some of the more plausible ones if you want...
 
PyrrosWarrior said:
Doesn't matter. I'm talking about that whole mindset that a lot of you guys voting for it have repeated every turn that he "has" to do it - that it simply can't be put off. There's always sacrifices or opportunity cost everything. Sometimes you just gotta let go of that relentless efficiency and let poor Garrick spend time with his family for once without having extra shifts on the job.

Heck, if I were the QM, that's the kinda thing I would've started bringing up warning signs of to prevent abuse of overtime, like a Stress mechanic or something. You're right that last turn was legitimately an emergency, but at the same time I'm rather tired of everything being declared an "emergency." Overtime and priority is supposed to be a last resort, but they've been used constantly.

Fairly certain if Questor hadn't made the Gawain interludes free, we would've never gotten any on-screen character development for him and his friends either.
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Well, Garrick has been noted in-universe to be a bit of a workaholic, so if anything, it perfectly fits his character.

But yeah, using Garricks actions efficiently on one hand and making room for his family on the other hand is a bit of a problem.

masterofmadness said:
Gawain: Isabelle I'm sorry about that letter It was an accident.
Isabelle: Oh okay... *Blushes* so does that mean you don't want to do the things you...
Gawain: *Cough* We can maybe do some of the more plausible ones if you want...
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Yeah, next turn we might wanna do Gawain´s Isabella-story in the hopes that they *finally* officially tie the know - after all, he is in his mid-twenties, our Heir apparent and has probably *done it* with her a few times already.

Last thing we need is a political scandal about the Crown Prince knocking up his sweetheart outta wedlock.
 
PyrrosWarrior said:
30: Priority (duty) + Pearl Auction (family)

29: Merlin (duty) + Gilda's Hobby (both)

28: Dukes (duty) + Refugees (duty)

27: Overtime (duty) + Overtime (duty)

26: Merlin (duty) + Pearl Crystalmancy (family)

25: Overtime (duty) + Gawain Job (both)

24: Overtime (duty) + Priority (duty)

23: Council of Feathercaea (duty) + Pearl Hobby (both)

22: Overtime (duty) + Priority (duty)

21: Overtime (duty) + Overtime (duty)

20: Overtime (duty) + Meeting Gawain's Friends (family)

19: Gwyndlyn Education (both) + Pearl Education (both)

18: Gawain Education (both) + Adopt Pearl (both)

Not gonna go back farther because I think the point's well made. We've overwhelmingly spent Garrick's personal actions on attending to the empire and maximizing stats. There's literally only THREE family actions we've done for its own sake, and those are also the only ones to give on-screen character development because education and hobby actions just lead to a vote rather than Garrick actualy teaching or hanging out with them himself on-screen.

What this tells me is that I'm right in that you guys are really only willing to take actions for action-efficiency rather than genuinely letting Garrick spend his personal time away from work or otherwise letting the other characters have some character development. Literally the only family-related actions you guys have taken frequently throughout the quest are the ones that will lead to immediate stat boosts and can't be put off indefinitely like the other PA's because education and hobbies are important for his kids' stat builds.
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He's the Emperor, it's his job. He's supposed to put the Empire before his family.
 
Shadow-86 said:
We should give the guy a vacation after this in order to spend time with the family.
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This is WHY I look forward to giving our kids a Work-Study thing, if only to give us more action-economy per turn in order to not constantly be so backed up in the Personal Action department... Sure it took us their entire childhoods, but shhhhh, shhhhh, better late than never. (lol)
 
Shadow-86 said:
We should give the guy a vacation after this in order to spend time with the family.
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Markala said:
This is WHY I look forward to giving our kids a Work-Study thing, if only to give us more action-economy per turn in order to not constantly be so backed up in the Personal Action department... Sure it took us their entire childhoods, but shhhhh, shhhhh, better late than never. (lol)
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Again I feel the need to point at out that when a personal action related to the kids has been available we have almost always taken it
 
jonasquinn said:
Again I feel the need to point at out that when a personal action related to the kids has been available we have almost always taken it
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I mean yeah we've been doing our best considering everything just keep snowballing all things considered, I'm just saying that it's always been a action-budgeting strain every time, like, we are again, backed up by -2 Children actions (we still have Gwyn's and Gilda's sitting on the backburner, on top of *gestures vaguely*... Everything else) and it's a lot. Something to lessen the constant war between choosing to Imp Order/Overtime something to get extra options, especially the science... By the emperor, the science...

Hoping we can get enough breathing room to do all these things after the Maretonian Campaign, before we have to deal with whatever the heckity is going to go down with Canterlot, give Garrick's heart and liver a break, because all that coffee (tea) and alcohol can't be good for him.

TLDR: Yes we the players have been doing our BEST to budget Garrick's actions/attention between work and family (if anything, I'm just glad we got those Gawain options for free, because holy hell it would suck if they weren't, thank you Questor-sama), but there's nothing wrong with hoping for more opportunities to get more actions to improve our action-economy.
 
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Markala said:
I mean yeah we've been doing our best considering everything just keep snowballing all things considered, I'm just saying that it's always been a action-budgeting strain every time, like, we are again, backed up by -2 Children actions (we still have Gwyn's and Gilda's sitting on the backburner, on top of *gestures vaguely*... Everything else) and it's a lot. Something to lessen the constant war between choosing to Imp Order/Overtime something to get extra options, especially the science... By the emperor, the science...

Hoping we can get enough breathing room to do all these things after the Maretonian Campaign, before we have to deal with whatever the heckity is going to go down with Canterlot, give Garrick's heart and liver a break, because all that coffee (tea) and alcohol can't be good for him.

TLDR: Yes we the players have been doing our BEST to budget Garrick's actions/attention between work and family (if anything, I'm just glad we got those Gawain options for free, because holy hell it would suck if they weren't, thank you Questor-sama), but there's nothing wrong with hoping for more opportunities to get more actions to improve our action-economy.
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I definitely see where you're coming from but again to be fair the Gilda and Gwyndlyn actions literally only became available last turn so it's not like it's a particularly long term issue
 
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