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[Mercury]

Do we have a way to register IP's at this time? I think we should use a similar system to the XP system - perhaps it is entirely usable for ip as well, only based on factions instead of jedi?

[Elmer]

No there is currently no system to keep track of . Both the bookkeeping page and the faction page are logical choices. The bookkeeping page is logical for obvious reasons. The faction page is also logical as this way you can display how much pull a faction has. (If a faction has 300 ready, you know that they have quite some power ready.)

[Brend]

If people accept keeping track of their expenditure the way they keep track of their expenditure that would work.

Otherwise, we could just do it the same way we track other long-term resources such as ? We have people not expenditure and gaining on their turn reports, and let them maintain a number on the wiki...

Personally, I would go with the turn reported version as otherwise bookkeeping expenditure is a lot of work; and the turn report is a natural place to look for a record of pseudo-economical nature. That being said, the benefits of using a system akin to the system is the automatic summation.

To decide this, I would love to hear from other people how the system works out -- has anyone converted their Jedi yet?

[Elmer]

Also, I was under the impression that you always need a story page before you can claim your

I have not converted my jedi yet.

[Brend]

After some thinking, I have changed my opinion: I strongly prefer to use a system akin to the tracking system with a twist.

It has a few very important advantages to use automatic tallying:

• Story pages for political stories are encouraged
• It allows later checking of expenditure
• By recording the spending of in the turn report, it follows the normal flow of politics and economics

I propose that expenditure is noted on the bookkeeping page after the turn report has been approved, this also makes sure that two PCs don't both spend on the same vote for the same NPC -- it would be clearly stated in the turn reports, and upon such a conflict, the player of the NPC can make note of who 'wins' the bid.

[Brend]

Rewarding factions with IP

I have created the faction_reward data block for use on story pages (see Unity Fashion Show for an example):

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<data faction_reward #Reward>
Story [ref]: [[]]
Faction [ref]*:
Influence:
</data>


Note that the name behind the '#' should be unique on the story page.

Spending IP

I have also created a template for spending , these should go on your faction's bookkeeping page.

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<data faction_influence_expenditure #Influence 1>
Faction [ref]: Your Faction Here!
Influence:
Note [wiki]:
Influenced [ref]*:
Topic [forum]*:
When [date]: YYYY-MM-DD
</data>


This template should be filled in after your turn with the expenditure is approved!

You can get a quick summary by using (see Veolian Commonwealth bookkeeping as an example):

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{{template>faction influence summary|faction[ref::ic]=Your Faction here}}

[Brend]

The a union member has is now visible directly on their page as well (though it looks a bit odd for those without any ).

[Mercury]

Awesome! Thanks Brend!

[Dragonmaster352]

As the first player to have spent I will note a few things.

• You need to put a - sign in front of the amount in the template to spend IP. Since the template is specifically for spending IP I find this strange.
• It is not clear what the note line is for, I have assumed it was for what you spend IP. Also the note doesn't link to the wiki.
• I don't know if the forum line needs the actual topic name or the topic URL

Other then that it's fine.

[Brend]

Ah yes, there are some technicallaties there ^_^ I agree that not all of them make sense.

I'll try to explain:

You need to put a - sign in front of the amount in the template to spend IP. Since the template is specifically for spending IP I find this strange.

Unfortunately, the amount has to be negative to allow summing up all values from incoming and outgoing . This is because the wiki doesn't know from the data when you are getting with a data block, and when you are spending it. So by using negative amounts for you are spending, the total sum of all values for your faction balances to the amount currently available.

It is not clear what the note line is for, I have assumed it was for what you spend IP. Also the note doesn't link to the wiki.

The Note line is for anything you might want to note for the spenditure of . Basically what you used it for. I'm not a hundred percent sure what you mean with "Also the note doesn't link to the wiki"... I'm assuming you mean that there is a [wiki] behind the Note field name? That is so the note is actually displayed as wiki text, meaning that you can use [[Page Name]] to link to things and such.

I don't know if the forum line needs the actual topic name or the topic URL

Neither. You actually have to put the thread id there. For example, the topic you mention ([mail] To Senator Standro: Support for Senator Acehtoo) has thread id 2355 (the number behind t= in the url bar when you're looking at that thread). This is the number you place in the field. Note that this works exactly the same as linking forum threads to story pages.

(I've udpated the topic field for you, so if you look at the bookeeping again, it will make more sense ^_^)