Skill soft employment
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How I propose it would work:

A work location has a set of viable skillsofts (skillsofts that give a skill good enough to work in a given role)

Employment would be based upon having the company skillsoft installed and active.

Loss, miss use, etc of the skillsoft would result in debt collection to cover cost of the unit, potential firing, collection RP etc.

Skillsoft employees would earn less, think of it like a temp agency.

These skillsoft positions would be limited to jobs of a very specific skill set, pilot, driver, pharmacists, bio-tech, chemist, etc.

Why?

It opens up more jobs to people without EU investment or those with max EU.

It allows people to get into work quicker while they level up the relevant skills to retain the position more fully without the cost and pressure of a skillsoft loss hanging over them.

It leads into the theme of both skillsofts and their uses in a professional setting, and the theme of being owned by your work (in an IC sense)

It gives opportunities to security staff to do debt collection more organically.

Why not?

There, at least to start with might be more staff involvement.

potential for when the level of regularly active players being snubbed by those with skillsofts in a given area.

Potential to be abused

Solving the why not

Staff involvement does not really have a solution, but skillsofts could be dealt with by players, it would just be the idea of allow a lower backet wage and position below rookie or junior that would be a skillsoft temp/agency staff.

Skillsoft positions should be disposable, just like temp or agency staff and as such if someone comes in the skillset they should be employed in the position.

Abuse could be dealt with IC easily enough.

TLDR

Have a lower bracket job level under junior/rookie that is a SIndome version of temp/agency staff who's skills are reliant on a skillsoft either provided by the business or by PC's wishing to invest.

I don't think there's really any unringing that bell at this point. The swings back and forth between how major systems work or will be treated are worse than just picking an implementation and sticking to it. More than anything at this point I'd personally prefer how skillsofts are treated to just stay one way, especially since there was just a major shift in recent history.

Oh, that's pretty cool I and a few others seemed to not think that was the case, hence putting up the post.

But if it is the case, then maybe it can be expanded upon a little for the other reasons raised by myself and @Ratchet. A sort of agency/temp job style thing which is assigned to those using skill softs or provided with skillsofts to work.

The idea of just being able to literally hire anyone and slot them at the work place to fill in spaces feels very CP and in theme with the idea of people just being meat for the machine.

In terms of the original suggestion, again I think the back and forth is worse than just sticking to one thing, however if skillsofting into jobs did make a comeback then I don't think it should be as lesser underpaid or disposable roles, which would only perpetuate the unthemely thinking that led to their nerfing in the first place.

Instant cryo-learning and technodidacts are ubiquitous and universal in the theme, there was really no reason at all it should ever have been considered a lesser process except for maybe combat roles where losing the soft is plausible. If anything manual learners ought to be seen as impoverished or something of an old fashioned curiosity.

However if characters can't skillsoft into regular jobs, then I think disposable character half-jobs for skillsofts is even worse than the current situation, since again it reinforces a false perception that pure UE investment is holy and needs be to protected. As long as characters cannot respec to adapt to a changing fabric of reality, then the best skills implementation is one that stays consistent over time.