Constitutional debate: Base Production and Industry & Energy

[lucky22]

Originally posted by DeathByTheSword
......If we want we could also give crawlers too D of TC and name it like something D of civilunits (name isnt an idea but an jobdisciption)

A seperate director for crawlers, taxes and worker placement might be enough work for a single position. Is this third position what you mean by D of TC? I just scanned back and can't seem to find a reference to "TC".

Pan: A third position would give some check and balance to the BP/IE relationship for sure.

Would such a notion be OK with the constitutional commitee?

[AdamTG02]

He's referring to the Director of Terraforming and Colonization (or Colonization and Terraforming, can't seem to remeber which phrasing we're working with).

Adding still a third position would make things unecessarily complex.

But I'm not opposed to giving I&E control over workers necessarily. To me, simply deciding what to produce in every base is ample jurisdiction for one Director. Giving another person worker and crawler placement, as well as hurrying and the responsibility for the treasury seems reasonable to me. (After all, workers are just as tied to energy as they are to minerals -- perhaps more, since specialists cannot produce minerals.)

Just one more idea for the pot.

[lucky22]

As long as the popular will endorses what you propose, Adam, ok. Both Directorates are fairly job-like anyway... despotic psychosis in either position will just hurt us all and make the power-mad Director look like an incompetent jerk.

[DeathByTheSword]

ok so we will propose BP for buildings and IE (other name please, maybe domestic?) got the rest?

but what about giving SE the entire screen much simpler i think

[lucky22]

Originally posted by DeathByTheSword
Lucky22: I THINK like what you are saying. so D of BP

but i dont think you should split up one thing between different directors like workerplacement and tax rate. I think it is more logic to give these thing (seperate of eachother) to one director, and let that one be adviced by other directors what to do. so science and DEI will ADVICE SE on taxrates and the apropiatte Directors will ADVICE DEI/DI/DBP (one of those ) on workerplacement. what do you thing about this then?

There is a nice field for a little bit of democratic friction and dialog opened up by seperating worker placement and tax-rate. Autocratic thinking is pretty natural for an AC player in general, so such a split is a neat way of keeping things "realish".

[DeathByTheSword]

lucky: check the CC thread for the first article what ya think?