[X] Plan: Infrastructural Preparation
Thanks for the Plan
@Jarow! I tried to make a budget using last turn’s plan, and all the math and projects to keep track of made my head spin.
I have a pretty big set of tools I rely on at this point. I have:
-A personal excel sheet holding:
--A budget calculation sheet
--A
planned budget calculation sheet (generally not used anymore, but has been used for pre-planning in the past)
--A sortable and action type filterable list of actions
--A couple of attempts to keep track of what systems have what. Not always up to date or accurate
-A prototype planning google sheet me and Sunhawk are working on
--A sheet to select actions (that I never use)
--A sheet that manages dropships, jumpships, and warships recruitment, along with resources unique to them and procurement costs
--A sheet that manages mech, conventional, and ASF recruitment, along with all resources used by any of them
-A personal notepad file
--Notes on a few important things I need to remember
--The plan itself I copy and paste from to place on the forum
-The sheets Sunhawk keeps updated for all of us
--All the information I don't keep sufficiently updated on my end
--A searchable list of actions
-The thread
--The place I add plan names and all the little descriptions of why each action was chosen
--Some major opinions by the other participats
-The discord
--Reassurance on certain actions I'm not fully confident in
--Advice on preferences for some actions
If anyone ever is interested in trying to make plans, feel free to ask for help and I can try to get you access to as many of these as you'd like (even if I have to create my own copy of the procurement sheet for you to play with) and offer any advice you might need.
I think we somehow through unspoken agreement made Jarow our 'guy with the plan'.
I just got too effective at it, got all my competitors too used to relying on me. I try to do what I can to promote some kind of competition (there's a reason I say how much money is leftover at the end, and it's not actually primarily because it's useful information for everyone to know about how we're doing or how good the plan is), but by now I've pretty much accepted it. I'll admit it doesn't feel quite as amazing to be the only planmaker as opposed to the most successful, but there's definitely a good bit of satisfaction coming from everyone relying on me.