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[Toaster]

Perhaps a future standard for "on high" commanders:  Their pay starts at standard 5 tokens, but instead of going up for success, it's docked every time someone seriously screws up under their command.  (Accidentally tasering a teammate isn't enough to be a problem.  Killing a couple civilians is a token.  Blowing up an important mission asset is two tokens.  Manip overloads or anything that is referred to as X-9 afterwards drops the pay to zero.)

To balance this out, commanders get access to the Shock Switch.

I like this. We can do this if the people under him are willing.

It might work better simply using it in the future since it wasn't decided ahead of time for this one, as well as he didn't lead the full mission, just the "de-screwup" part of it.

[Radio Controlled]

Perhaps a future standard for "on high" commanders:  Their pay starts at standard 5 tokens, but instead of going up for success, it's docked every time someone seriously screws up under their command.  (Accidentally tasering a teammate isn't enough to be a problem.  Killing a couple civilians is a token.  Blowing up an important mission asset is two tokens.  Manip overloads or anything that is referred to as X-9 afterwards drops the pay to zero.)

To balance this out, commanders get access to the Shock Switch.

I like this. We can do this if the people under him are willing.

It might work better simply using it in the future since it wasn't decided ahead of time for this one, as well as he didn't lead the full mission, just the "de-screwup" part of it.

I'd be ok with this, though there's a good chance I'll be joining this one myself, so it's moot for this mission.

[Gentlefish]

I... don't think commanders should be docked for x-9 events. I mean, oftentimes the actions are harmless enough. How was Xantalos to know absorbing some flesh was going to cause LEG, or that the super-ice was going to be a thing? Or... Well, any other overload? They're mostly just bad luck aren't they?

[Xantalos]

Well, with the x-9 things it's both times been because of someone entering stupid big parameters into a manipulator and then fudging the calculations out of exhaustion, so it could be argued that since the overloadee almost always dies the commander should get docked for his subordinate's stupidness (like that one time someone typed 'ROAST ME UP SUM DOGY PLS' into a manip and got an explosion in their face for their trouble))

[Parisbre56]

Yeah, it enforces the concept of responsibility. If someone is given a group of people to manage and is given a task to complete, then if they don't complete the task or do poorly at it, the one paying them is not very likely to take into account whether or not that was caused by luck or incompetence.

Besides, the players are punished for bad luck. Why not the commanders?

[Toaster]

I agree with the above two; even if the grunt is at fault, the supervisor eats some blame.  They should have stopped them, trained them better, had them doing something else; pick your reason.

[IronyOwl]

Put more concisely, you could ask just what, if they're unable to stop fuckups from occurring, are we supposed to be paying them for?

Plus, it's a relatively low-risk situation to begin with, so it makes sense for the values to be fairly low. If everything goes to hell and you're on the ground, you can be sure you're earning those tokens just getting back to the ship to collect them. If everything goes to hell and you're in the command chair, I guess you have one of your assistants fetch you a beverage to relax with after that just dreadful thing with the feeds all going dead.

[Toaster]

"Did those numbskulls blow up another continent?  *sigh* Mobilize a shuttle to scrape up what's left of them."

[Tavik Toth]

Helped fought Possed Faith.
Helped with retrieving info from that's egg things.
Helped Salsa's character dig D'usse out.
Didn't die or mess things up in general.

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Helped fought Possed Faith.
Helped with retrieving info from that's egg things.
Helped Salsa's character dig D'usse out.
Didn't die or mess things up in general.

6. Lets go with 6.