I'm only going to comment on Action 4, the Strategic action.

--- Juha Vesanto  wrote:
> Andrew Janssen wrote:
> 



> >>Action 4: Innovation in Metallurgy
> >>
> Action 4: Now this is interesting. This is a strategic action, and
> from 
> now on, I want to solve them with something I call Success pools. A 
> number of succesfull actions are required at a certain fixed
> difficulity 
> level (determined at the beginning), and the action objective is 
> achieved when the Success pool is full. In the mean time, throwing 
> resources into the action may create some other difficulities.
> 
> In this particular case, I'll require 3 successes at the difficulity 
> level of very hard (-2): one for finding the alloys, one for finding 
> ways to produce them efficiently, and one to developing initial 
> facilities to make the armor/weapons using them. Note that success in
> 
> this action does not increase the technological base of the society:
> for 
> that, the technology still has a long way to spread into everyday
> usage. 
> In the mean time, it is a luxury item.
> 
> Resolution
>     Diff=Huge (-2) + Dice (00-+) + Extras (0) = -2 Failure 
> 
> Very small progress so far. There's clear potential for backfire if 
> "this misspending of tax money continues".
> 
> Results
>     Success pool = (0/3). Potential for backfire (level=small: -2). 

Here's my interpretation of the result for this year:

The Republican research program initially appeared to begin well.
Unfortunately, the promise of Council funding dragged all kinds of
frauds, charlatans, incompetents and crackpots out of the woodwork like
gnurrs[1]. Their combined efforts wheedled a rather large sum of money
out of the Council before anyone noticed that there was no return on
the Council's investment. While many of the fraudsters take the money
and run, the Council is able to recover about two-thirds of the year's
disbursments; the repayment rate went up after the Council made a
couple of the worst frauds pay an arm and a leg in addition to the base
grant.

Dr. Vellin and the Council decide that they will have to set up a
screening committee of some sort to filter out the nutcases and
criminals before monies are issued, and they will also need a stronger
monitoring body, to keep the remainder honest.

Next year looks interesting.

Andrew Janssen

[1] "The Gnurrs Come From the Voodvork Out." Kudos points to whoever
recognizes this short story title.  

> There, that was fun. Now, please correct me.
>
> juuso
> 
> 
> 
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