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[Tiruin]

Okay, so, I've been busy for the last day or two so I haven't had proper oppourtunity to return and give the turn. So here I am!

Basically, all you have to do with marketing is to
a. Choose who you're marketing the goods to, and what goods you're marketing.
b. Set the price you'll be selling them for.

Nothing more is done beyond those two steps- the country will buy the amount they want from you. That's how it's gonna work for now. Adjust your turns as necessary, and then I'll get the turn rolling.

Ooookay .__.
...

[In which things are now FIXED in this post, but not edited into the prior one!]
Let's see. 70M for design. 40M for renovation. Now I have THREE things to sell! :I Hum!

Spoiler: Arbores Technologies; Turn 1, Marketing! (click to show/hide)

COMPANY SHEET
Name: Arbores Technologies
CEO Name: Alisa Talasse
Background: Engineer-led
CEO Type: Business-savvy
Current Money: 390 Million (380M if I misunderstood that 'additional 10M')
Labs: 2
Motto: Quality is service.
Bio: Arbores Technologies is a dedicated company towards production of utilitarian products, focusing on quality rather than quantity of produce, durability over superficial desirability, and progress over short-term needs. It is a relatively new company, however its capital being invested into its workforce and quality analysis departments, and company goals being towards innovation and meeting the needs of mankind, makes it heavily reliant on the changing world around it--as its profit margins have been adjusted to invest back into improvements and quality of life for both its employees and focus on quality. For its workers, generous benefits packages and quotas are expected, and company training includes mental health care alongside an internal culture of egalitarian principles, following the core value of human dignity over all.

Looking over the results of weeks of revisions and work, the latest accident hit Arbores Technologies hard. While they had kept archival backups, it was the applied sciences that were lost--whole configurations and proof-of-concept products. Nobody had been killed, and the oversight was thoroughly investigated to a lead cause of external error (of whom it may seem, would be deduced to human interference?), but the time was on for marketing! And sadly, given the lack of what would have occurred--things did not look hopeful.

Spoiler: Draft (click to show/hide)

> Market out Personnel Armor, and Light Duty Vests
- If I have to pick, add my CEO +1 to Armor sales. If there's no '+1 to least rolled thing', do it for Personnel Armor :v
++ Do that +1 to Personnel Armor
Personnel Armor; Production Cost: 12M, 20% discount if made in batches of 4 or more
Light Duty Vests; Production Cost: 5M.
Both per battallion. And that's 300-800 soldiers per wikipedia :V

Medikits: Nope. Just the designs. 3M per Battalion.

> CEO Bonus applies to Personnel Armor, getting a +1 to Marketing Roll.
Markup for all is set to a flat... 25%. Meaning profits set for 3M for Personnel Armor, and 2.5M for Light Duty Vests.
> 10 orders of Personnel Armor are to be done. 120M, 20% discounted; setting at a final price of production of 96M.
> 10 orders of Light Duty Vests are to be done, too. 50M (Flat?! Or the 20%? If that applies; 40M).
> 5 orders of Medikits are made, totaling 15M.

Final moneys for me is 380 - (96+40 = 136) or (120+50 = 170) = EITHER 244 or 210M; and then a finalized 229M or 195M plus medikits.

Arbores Technologies was always public in its products, and the blow to the medikits and equipment was a media run that took up much of the CEO's time--it was however handled well, and was slated to turn into future focus on safety efforts and protocols, with the lamplight turned to the unveiling of Arblar Armor, for all personnel in need, from war reporters to personalized combat medic designs (because the Geneva Conventions still exists), with scheduled testing to be done as this proof of concept became more widely known along the military circles and the Caribbean, where Arbores Technologies was in close proximity of. . .

Spoiler: Revised stuff with fluff from above (click to show/hide)

> Sell to any/interested. We're pretty much non-biased and interested in the welfare of human life.
> Sell price is as follows: (Following the 'market profit' of 50%)
Personnel Armor: 17M per batch (that's 41.67% profit from 12M) [CEO bonus applies here, or to the general 'Personnel Armor' series this turn]
Light Duty Vest: 7M (40% profit from 5M)

Multipurpose Medikits: 4M per unit (1M profit; 33% markup from 3M)

[Taricus]

Basically, all you have to do with marketing is to
a. Choose who you're marketing the goods to, and what goods you're marketing.
b. Set the price you'll be selling them for.

Nothing more is done beyond those two steps- the country will buy the amount they want from you. That's how it's gonna work for now. Adjust your turns as necessary, and then I'll get the turn rolling.

Yeah, it's probably a good thing regarding the production; it'd make turns that much more simpler. If anything I'd say that change of mechanics should be permanent as it'll make things easier to run.

[Khamsin]

I'll admit, this has been both an eye-opener (how vague I've been with emchanics) and a big help. So thanks!
Also, Tiruin, I never got back to you about the bonus rules. I think it's a pre-chosen thing because of what it represents: Extra effort from your corporation chosen at the start of your project, whether that be funding or the lion's share of engineers.

Last bookkeeping thing for now, but could you please include your designs with your company dropdown?

It is now 1961, Design Phase, as there is no Trial or Combat. Any extra stipulations will be featured after the dropdowns.
Upon thinking about how the mechanics work, writing up how they feel about ~3 pieces of equipment, times X, where X is the amount of nations, that's a LOT of writing, but also a lot of rolling and a lot of information. This'll have to take adjustment, and is further punishment for me not thinking things through. So instead, I'll only roll and detail things per-nation instead of per-product. Tiruin and Spin, your +1 will apply to ALL marketing effects for this turn, but next turn it'll roll over to "pick which NATION you're marketing to that'll get a bonus". This rules change will allow me to have the 5-7 nations I plan to have in the "full game."

Spoiler: Arbores (click to show/hide)

Jinda Keys Roll: 9+1 Revenue: $142 Million
The brass at this meeting had nothing but amazement about these new products, and were perhaps too enthusiastic at the demonstration. All kinds of Arblar were tested, medical equipment used in gruesome dummy displays, and generals even wanted to take home damaged vests as historic trophies. This visit was a huge windfall for your company. The Jindans abandoned any kind of caution and are outfitting 3 divisions with Light Duty Vests, in production terms, 12 whole battalions. The Special Forces also got a lot of love with 2 battlion's worth of Arblar vests. The Field Surgery Corps is also acquiring 6 units of your company's medical tools for field testing, with possible purchases along the line. While this may seem modest, the floodgates are open for Arbores to be one of the most trusted suppliers to Jinda, along with more and more purchases once the army has tested the Armour in combat.

Ivy Roll: 8+1 Revenue: $172 Million
Ivy is also highly impressed with the gear. Medical tools are highly in their interest, outright buying 12 units for distribution among various medics. The armour is somewhat rich for their blood, but, they are highly interested in outfitting shock troopers in the heavier armour and elite troops with light duty vests. 4 battalions will be recieving the heavier vests and 8 will recieve the Light Duty vests. Ivy had a suggestion for further development: cheap helmets of the same material would be HIGHLY appreciated, in their own words. All in all, it was a very strong opening into the market and they await further developments eagerly.

Spoiler: Efficaco (click to show/hide)

Jinda Keys Roll: 7 Revenue: $154 Million
Efficaco has entered the right market at the right time. The demand for both standard infantry weapons to replace the very old Lee Enfields the country wields is immensely high, and the need for naval assets. The very sight of such a high-tech monster in the form of the BFBAR has many general's mouths watering. The Admirals are perhaps less impressed, but still have modest positivity towards the Bloodletter. All of this translates to a couple of things: First, the admiralty places an order for 2 Bloodletter keels to be laid down. They also suggest the development of a guided missile or perhaps a radar retrofit to future proof the design. The Army places an order for 8 Battalions worth of Metal BFBARs for general usage trials- but they have said they may possinly adopt it as a service rifle. The polymer option is acquired by 3 battalions of Special Forces. It's a good market for these designs.

Ivy Roll: 9 Revenue: $145 Million
Ivy is highly impressed with the designs. The metal variants of the BFBAR are very worthwhile infantry weapons, although practically no attention is paid to the polymer variant. Even the neglected Admiralty has decided to throw their weight behind the Bloodletter, clawing for what they can get and purchasing a single Bloodletter. The Ivians are considering an adoption of the BFBAR as their service rifle, but they're buying 20 whole battalions' worth, with the possibility of acquiring 40 more over the course of the next year. Ivy is highly interested in what else you'll be putting out.

Spoiler: Oxalis (click to show/hide)

Jinda Keys Roll: 3+1 Revenue: $70 Million
Poor marketing in this sector is saved by cleverly designed and targeted products. The trials go badly, there's malfunctions when the suits try to talk to the generals... But the glimpse of a future where  Jinda can silently strike at the coasts of their enemies appeals. The Special Forces are acquiring 1 Nereid+2 Pontic bundle, for a cool $70 Million. They're sceptical, but they believe in the product. If things go well, they plan to acquire more. Comments from one admiral mentioned how interesting it would be if this branch of warfare were to develop: underwater weapons, explosives, vehicles... But he soon returns to sipping brandy and watching a junior marketing executive desperately try and save this product demonstration.

Ivy Roll:10+1 Revenue:
It would take a pure marketing miracle for there to be any demand from Ivy for a product like this- it'd be like selling gasoline to a burning man. A perfect storm of the USSR's involvement, a young man from Marketing with huge ambitions and a presentation with a lot of free alcohol manages to create an earth-shattering response. The Nereid is hailed as the opening to a bright new future of Naval-Army cooperation: It could be refitted in billions of ways! Coastal support, patrol boat... And the Pontic could run supplies cool and quiet. A USSR ambassador visiting the presentation regaled the room with a two hour long story of his survival in the Siege of Leningrad and wished that he had this submarine. Everybody at the end was moved to tears. They buy two packages outright, but as far as they're concerned, they would buy any refit or upgrade kit to the Nereid, or anything with so much as the name or general concept. Such an idea plays into their ethos more than they could ever have imagined. 

The year is 1971 and both nations become more and more prepared for war. Budgets are increasing, and there are just the tiniest sparks of conflict. A nearby island chain, previously thought worthless, happens to have a nice supply of uranium. It remains unclaimed, but the two countries are starting to make plans and discovering who owns it.
As such, both nations are trying to refit their militaries. They want new planes to replace their aging WW2 designs, new infantry weapons, new vehicles in general. Ivy is looking in particular for man-portable firepower, whereas Jinda seeks a heavier naval option.

[Maximum Spin]

Spoiler: OXALIS sheet (click to show/hide)

startup OXALIS Manufacturing Corp
business-savvy CEO Erik Maeda
$480M$690M? in capital holdings
2 labs
Only Success
Pontic-1, Nereid

Spoiler: Design 2 (click to show/hide)

1) The Golem One, a heavy tank focussed on sturdy construction and blowing things up, featuring thick steel plating, reactive armour, a diesel-powered motor/generator, two small side-mounted guns for emergency situations, and the pride of place, a massive top-mounted swiveling Gauss gun. Intended to be crewed by three people.
2) The Cherub, a next-generation stealth airplane equipped with air-to-ground missiles and capable of delivering a nuclear payload, you know, if one of the countries happened to get their hands on such a thing somehow. Other than the advanced stealth capabilities, it's a fairly conservative design, built for reliability and mission flexibility. It could just as easily be used to firebomb a city as to deliver a special ops team deep behind enemy lines.

[Khamsin]

Spoiler: Oxalis (click to show/hide)

I'm going to say practical gauss and practical stealth is well out of your reach. We still haven't seen the first IRL and the second was an 80's/90's technology.

[Maximum Spin]

Spoiler: Oxalis (click to show/hide)

I'm going to say practical gauss and practical stealth is well out of your reach. We still haven't seen the first IRL and the second was an 80's/90's technology.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Nah, we've had had practical gauss since like the 30s, it just has never been popular enough to bother with when we have perfectly good regular guns. As for stealth, the principles of modern stealth were known by the mid-70s (so it doesn't seem totally out of reach for a lucky company, and besides "early stealth" was in the OP, ) and people had been trying since WWI (optical) or WWII for radar... still, if you insist, revise the Gauss gun to an ordinary machine gun and we can just go with optical stealth for night flying (successfully managed in WWI) for the plane. Would that be okay?

[Khamsin]

Spoiler: Oxalis (click to show/hide)

...Don't post at 3am, folks, or you forget shit like that. Radar Stealth is fine, but expect it to be Cutting Edge. As for gauss, I'm still frowning on it for now. If anything, it'd be it's own project.

That reminds me. It's okay to bolt on various things that would almost certainly exist to your designs. I.e a helicopter with a machine gun. Antibiotics in a medical kit. However, if you want to get a little bit more out there I.e A machine gun with specially designed armour piercing bullets would not be just a "bolt-on" to another design.

[Maximum Spin]

Spoiler: Oxalis (click to show/hide)

...Don't post at 3am, folks, or you forget shit like that. Radar Stealth is fine, but expect it to be Cutting Edge. As for gauss, I'm still frowning on it for now. If anything, it'd be it's own project.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Yep, I figured it would be Cutting Edge. Okay, skip the Gauss and replace it with a regular machine gun.

[Shadowclaw777]

Spoiler: Company Finances T2 for the Efficaco Industries (click to show/hide)

COMPANY SHEET
Name: Efficaco Industries (EI)
CEO Name: Mark Chander
Background: Engineer-Led
CEO Type: Tech Wizard
Money: 390 Million+299 Million= 689 Million
Labs: 2
Motto: The Future Shall Come
Bio: After WW2 and the events following it, their was a new revolution in the way of modern thinking about technological use and its own growth had been questioned. The company is a subsidized private company located in the UK, that as of all the allies, have taken their own share of the German scientists. This company is to help make Britain into diverge into advance technological innovations and developments that would further the cause of the waning British empire. Mark Chander, a fellow lead researcher for the British during the world wars, has always had a fascination for Latin and which he names his company over. Given assignment from the government for such a important task, Mark has desire to support his own patriotism but also remain a private company.

Spoiler: New advancements must be made, yes-yes... (click to show/hide)

(Both the +1 Design Bonus, and Rolled at Advantage Credit is used for this design)
"Bloody-Mary"-class Battle Cruiser: 827 ft heavily armored steel missile cruiser with a wide array of missile options, either to conduct both land bombardment and anti-ship attacks. One of its missile arrays uses the P-15 missile launcher, to have replaceable and same technology as used in the Bloodletter-destroyer. The most innovative of advancement on this ship is a nuclear marine propulsion system, one of the main strength besides the increased momentum this cruiser has compared to oil or coal-fueled ships, is it has a longer waiting period before it needs to be refueled. However, the low running fuel cost is undermined by the fact of the high operating costs and the investments in naval power. It still has some secondary reserve steam engines, as well.
Design Goals:
-A fully functioning Battlecruiser that can serve as the capital ship of a naval fleet, that has a array of missiles. With a P-15 surface-to-surface missile for bombardment and anti-ship combat, and the newly introduced SAM missile launcher as well to hit aerial targets.
-Is equipped with dual-purpose 130mm autocannons that can engage both aerial and surface targets.
-Nuclear-propelled engine, that means there is less need for the ship to return to naval bases for refueling
-Design Inspiration

"Bloodhound"-class Light Ground-Attack Aircraft: A low-set, straight-wing jet fighter equipped with air-to-ground conventional bomb payload for bombardment and 12.7mm autocannons to serve as anti-air weapons, and even some guided aerial air-to-air interceptor missiles. All equipped with a basic communication and radar array. This is an ambitious design for providing a fighter that serves as both an aerial fighter and strike aircraft.

@Khamsin; Complexity check on the designs,

[Tiruin]

I'll admit, this has been both an eye-opener (how vague I've been with emchanics) and a big help. So thanks!
Also, Tiruin, I never got back to you about the bonus rules. I think it's a pre-chosen thing because of what it represents: Extra effort from your corporation chosen at the start of your project, whether that be funding or the lion's share of engineers.

Last bookkeeping thing for now, but could you please include your designs with your company dropdown?

It is now 1961, Design Phase, as there is no Trial or Combat. Any extra stipulations will be featured after the dropdowns.
Upon thinking about how the mechanics work, writing up how they feel about ~3 pieces of equipment, times X, where X is the amount of nations, that's a LOT of writing, but also a lot of rolling and a lot of information. This'll have to take adjustment, and is further punishment for me not thinking things through. So instead, I'll only roll and detail things per-nation instead of per-product. Tiruin and Spin, your +1 will apply to ALL marketing effects for this turn, but next turn it'll roll over to "pick which NATION you're marketing to that'll get a bonus". This rules change will allow me to have the 5-7 nations I plan to have in the "full game."
[...]
The year is 1971 and both nations become more and more prepared for war. Budgets are increasing, and there are just the tiniest sparks of conflict. A nearby island chain, previously thought worthless, happens to have a nice supply of uranium. It remains unclaimed, but the two countries are starting to make plans and discovering who owns it.
As such, both nations are trying to refit their militaries. They want new planes to replace their aging WW2 designs, new infantry weapons, new vehicles in general. Ivy is looking in particular for man-portable firepower, whereas Jinda seeks a heavier naval option.

Aww yeeees, this simplicity! I don't need to track production now \o/

"pick which NATION you're marketing to that'll get a bonus"

I like this :3 Sets a precedent that is for the GM and for the players too--the whole 'bonus on stuff you want to quota on' and all \o/ That feels really thought out through.

But I do wonder about the same in different phases--will you be testing if it would be better for them to go 'lowest rolled value' when you do the rolls? They can specify what they'd like but that'd only occur when rolls are tied and all.

Also, Tiruin, I never got back to you about the bonus rules. I think it's a pre-chosen thing because of what it represents: Extra effort from your corporation chosen at the start of your project, whether that be funding or the lion's share of engineers.

I...don't...understand?

Spoiler: Arbores Technologies. Turn 2; Design Phase (click to show/hide)

COMPANY SHEET
Name: Arbores Technologies
CEO Name: Alisa Talasse
Background: Engineer-led
CEO Type: Business-savvy
Current Money: 694Millens (380 M + 142 + 172)
Labs: 2
Motto: Quality is service.
Bio: Arbores Technologies is a dedicated company towards production of utilitarian products, focusing on quality rather than quantity of produce, durability over superficial desirability, and progress over short-term needs. It is a relatively new company, however its capital being invested into its workforce and quality analysis departments, and company goals being towards innovation and meeting the needs of mankind, makes it heavily reliant on the changing world around it--as its profit margins have been adjusted to invest back into improvements and quality of life for both its employees and focus on quality. For its workers, generous benefits packages and quotas are expected, and company training includes mental health care alongside an internal culture of egalitarian principles, following the core value of human dignity over all.

Personnel Armour Roll: 10 Complexity: Complex Cost per Battalion: $12 Million [Marketing value set to 17M]
Arbores' engineers have created something truly revolutionary in the labs. The first innovation in this design is a new synthetic fiber labelled Arblar- a lightweight weave that in the right configurations can stop pistol caliber bullets at close range and turn lethal rifle hits into wounds or even nonpenetrations at further ranges. The engineers have decided to deploy this in a basic set of vest + groin armour that's light enough to be worn by every infantryman.
++ (ARBLAR IN BULK: Gain a -20% discount on orders larger than 3 Battalions worth of Arblar. )
+ New Product: Light-Duty Vest Cost: $5 Million [7M on sales]
More efficient usage of a smaller amount of plates creates a light vest suitable for main-line usage. However, it suffers some drawbacks compared to regular armour. Pistol ammunition still has difficulties penetrating the armour, but rifle rounds will only be slowed down. However, they are good against fragmentation.

Multipurpose Medkits Roll:6 Complexity: Moderate Cost Per Battalion: $3 Million [4M on sales]
The noble goal of a portable medkit that could be specialised into a number of different forms might still happen. The current medkit resembles a crash kit carried by paramedics in something the size of a duffel bag. It unrolls into a kit that can be used for field surgery and treatment of common battlefield ailments, but it suffers from a few problems. The size is something limited to combat medics, but field surgeons find the equipment too simple for more complex work. In addition, the proposed handbook has simple first aid listed, but less simple operations descend into jargon. It's still a fine medkit that is reliable and filled with options, but it'll take refinement.

+ Trusted a lot by Jinda Keys! I've no idea how to write a personal detail mentioned in marketing but I hope the GM checks and records them!

Spoiler: Design Phase (click to show/hide)

Ivy is looking in particular for man-portable firepower

"Do we want to make weapons of war?"
"No, but we want to make weapons in self-defense--weapons that presumably are not suitable for front line combat. Weapons that are not weapons."
But then a head engineer had an idea he kept to himself and given his control of a whole lab, 'misunderstood' that 'weapons' meant equipment upgrades and other things to help the common soldier.

> First off, anyway I can buy a new lab? I'd like to do that--and if I can use it in the design phase? Move it to making 'modifications' or weapon substitutes of the weapon below; acting like a 'revision' but since its a somewhat new-ish weapon, the upgrade "sticks". If I cannot use it for a design at this time due to 'construction' and otherwise, hopefully use it in the revision phase.

Also naming fun is up to the GM like how I was surprised with my armor being named

[Bonus reroll added to this one]
((It doesn't seem the AK is present. However this design is based on it, and based to be a multipurpose weapon))
> Infantry weapon, designed to be a hybrid of assault rifle and Ivy's Mosin Nagant (with permission from the owner which part of why it costs so much :V)
Inspired by previous and historically inspirational foundations, all that was needed was to permit a mass produced rifle that had an increased 'rate of fire', durability and stress/strain "value", and perhaps a tad bit of Arblar utilized in early prototypical designs to test stopping power, alongside research into the most widely used ammunitions--with modifications planned to 'specialize' the weapon later on, including scopes or sights for aid at range, and a general fulfillment of hopefully fulfilling Ivy's request. Currently, adjustable sights were calibrated to be as precise as possible, alongside its light weight and addition of ease of carryable magazine (and other needed equipment) was to be a base standard. Following ergonomic principles, the stock, and other parts were also to be made both durable and user friendly, but focus was placed on how the rounds exited the weapon to avail increased accuracy and range. The rifle itself is chambered for shorter and slimmer rounds than that used by the Mosin Nagant.

(("Man portable firepower", in the italic-story above, meant 'designs of also-not-guns'...I'm assuming this is Complex or higher due to it being a modeled recoilless rifle))
While considerations were pushed into lab construction, thereby pushing more responsibility on that one head engineer, he thereby turned towards using what resources were available...into checking up the arsenal. While Arbores Technologies was primarily a non-'offensive' company, their facilities were top-notch of the day, and the only problems were primarily in terms of manpower and human error.
> Design an anti-tank weapon, aiming for an average of 'Complex', either to be deployed or brought as a man-portable weapon
Following the utility of recoilless rifles spotted throughout major arms industries worldwide at the time, research into existing technology noted--both in seminal data and in recent information--that there were issues where line of sight played a major role in battles where infantrymen were poised against armored units. This however, other than the other design being produced, would be marketed to all--and thereby would be modeled to be a general-purpose weapon, with plotted modifications to be towards refining its quality and durability, alongside its ease of carry and its ammunition produced.

[Khamsin]

The point was I've decided against the "lowest roll gets the bonus", and sticking with "choose your bonus beforehand". Anyways, I'll have the turn up in a couple of hours.

[Khamsin]

Spoiler: Efficaco (click to show/hide)

The cruiser would be a Complex design, and the jet would be a moderate design.

[Taricus]

* Taricus pokes the thread with a stick to see if it's still alive.