Goonhub
09-28-2023, 08:34 AM
(This post was last modified: 09-28-2023, 08:35 AM by glowbold. Edited 1 time in total.
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It would be nice if there was escalation with requisitions, i.e. the more complex/rewarding ones show up in response to you fulfilling easy ones. QMs can build relationships with departments, and people who are working with cargo reqs know they will get more lucrative jobs if they complete the easy ones. Right now it feels awkward to reward people for helping. Requisitions give credits, but the shipping budget isn’t (generally) a concern for anyone but QMs - my job is to keep people supplied regardless if they’re helping me or not. With multi-department reqs, I can’t even reasonably let someone tag the outgoing to get half.
Requisitions shouldn’t flat-out vanish with market refreshes, but have a known end time on generation. When someone turns in a requisition after the contract expires, it really sucks to tell the person who devoted a chunk of their game session to helping you “sorry, this is just going to sit here.” It’s especially rough having to pick favorites and only pin one contract when you know most of them require two/three cycles of time by the time someone stops what they’re doing, starts helping, does the thing, and gets it to you. Edited to add: If the RP market shift rate isn’t slower than classic, maybe it should be considered to match the pace of the rounds?
Requisition printouts should be more useful. It needs to say how much the requisition is worth at minimum. I want to be able to give a req printout to someone and have them go “wait, that much, for only THIS STUFF?!” because I want to share the “cheating the system” feeling I get when QMing. The paper itself should be editable and stampable (let me stamp APPROVED and keep track of costs / who helped). It should have a shift time stamp of when it was printed or when it expires. If printers were more common, I’d say you should be able to send it to a department printer.
Requisitions shouldn’t flat-out vanish with market refreshes, but have a known end time on generation. When someone turns in a requisition after the contract expires, it really sucks to tell the person who devoted a chunk of their game session to helping you “sorry, this is just going to sit here.” It’s especially rough having to pick favorites and only pin one contract when you know most of them require two/three cycles of time by the time someone stops what they’re doing, starts helping, does the thing, and gets it to you. Edited to add: If the RP market shift rate isn’t slower than classic, maybe it should be considered to match the pace of the rounds?
Requisition printouts should be more useful. It needs to say how much the requisition is worth at minimum. I want to be able to give a req printout to someone and have them go “wait, that much, for only THIS STUFF?!” because I want to share the “cheating the system” feeling I get when QMing. The paper itself should be editable and stampable (let me stamp APPROVED and keep track of costs / who helped). It should have a shift time stamp of when it was printed or when it expires. If printers were more common, I’d say you should be able to send it to a department printer.