The brother of my girlfriend went to China to research what could be done to lessen the amount of failures caused by a certain machine. Besides mechanical problems there was also the human factor.
There was a person who assigned to control the settings of the machine and it was noticed that the amount of failures increased each time there was a shift. Apparently the person "banged" a few times on the machine just to make sure that he was needed. After all if he didn't adjust settings then why was he employed? The fact that the machine ran fine before banging on it didn't matter. After a few hours the person had found more optimal settings (probably the original) and then the new shift began.
One advantage I can come up with is the smaller impact of weapon/armour upgrades. Or did they multiply that by 2 too?
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