Gather unknown signals from deep, silent space · By
Can Dr. Kel have a day off at the end of every week, or can we have the option to toggle it in the save game menu? With everything that needs to be tracked and fixed since the 0.9.0 update, it would be nice to have time exploration, cleaning, or something else without worrying about Bao asking Kel to do his jobs, because once Kel doesn't do his jobs or skips them, it affects the weekly report.
That's an interesting concept. I think I'd prefer it to be a sort of earned paid time off system. As in with the weekly review you get awarded PTO credit (two days for a perfect week? tie it to the difficulty setting?) that can be spent whenever with a button on the email screen and still counts towards a perfect for that week and still awards points as if you did all the tasks. That lets people put the job portion of the game on pause more or less at will for whatever other activity they want to do, or to never use it if they prefer. It would also be nice if using PTO would also pause everything else (servers going down, fuses blowing, transformers degrading, etc) but it's hard to come up with a logical reason for that to happen. Maybe if you have a kerfus, the confirmation for using PTO noting that "someone will be connecting to your kerfus if you have one to maintain the equipment in your absence"?
it makes sense with game lore too since you're there to literally discover and draw out alien entities, the signals are just bonus information really, you are the bait in a trap.
Spending all your time on the bonus part of the plot you're tangled in instead of stirring the pot and getting things moving is contradictory to the real goal.
Just don't do the task for the day if you don't want to. There's no penalty unless you set one yourself. They say you did bad in an email but nothing actually happens. Nothing is forcing you to do the daily tasks. So what if it affects the weekly report? All that does is make them pay you less. There are other ways to get money. I've gone several days without doing signals, earning money by farming or passively with the bitcoin miner. Just doing signals when you feel like it is much more liberating than feeling like it's a daily necessity.
