Withmore Census
Profession: Does as she pleases.

When joining the game, one of your problems is that you're jumping in blind- and considering that you're creating a character that you're expecting to put yourself behind for several months, creating an archetype that's oversatured can lead to almost immediate burnout. Chemists can't find a job, strippers are using lamp-posts in the streets, muggers form a line to beat the hell out of some unfortunate Immy...

Fortunately, there's a way to prevent this- having a Census to state that, say, 17% or so of our playerbase self-identities as this archetype, will allow incoming players to gauge whether or not their character concept it one that will be successful out of the Omega Gates. There's nothing worse than having no work simply because there's too much competition and far too little work.

Easy to implement with the current @poll system.

2 part poll question:

1) What role is your character?

(pick from list of maybe 20 things)

2) How long have you been in that role?

1-3 months

3-6 months

6months - 1 year

more than a year.

Dump that data to a simple table and put it in cgen. Can simply edit the data based on quarterly @poll polling and give players coming in a good idea of what might be in demand now.

Seems like valuable information and I'd like to see where this goes. Might get a bit weird if you have main hustles and side hustles where you may not clearly drop into one category. Don't know if having two choices to allocate yourself or a separate 'sub-type' vote would inflate the vote unreasonably or not, but it might help reflect that.

@bear

I imagine it would be easy enough to include a disclaimer at chargen to the effect of, "Choosing to RP an archetype, regardless of demand, does not guarantee you will find work at it IC."