Quote Originally Posted by Sebazy View Post
Rather I quickly learned that the bean counters in finance were the true development leads, not any of us on the top floor.
Just had the brainworm of 'what if Bean Counter was a job in FFXIV'. You'd have a bunch of skills with properties (like BLU), elements, additional effects, etc. You have two phases, one where you press a button to cast a simple GCD to restore your MP to full. The other is the main meat of the job though, you press the button to start the phase, and the job gauge gives you your orders: do this element, or this status effect, or both, etc. So you have to 'mix' a combo of attacks, like a NIN mudra of sorts, that fulfills the conditions. The more conditions met, the more damage that attack does. But every Bean Counter knows, you can't go over budget, so your total can go as close to 10000mp cost as you like, but if you go over, the project is considered a failure due to financial mismanagement (and the higher ups are angry)

maybe next April Fools eh