Chief Offer

Definition

The "Chief Offer" within Evivve refers to a critical game mechanic designed to foster leadership, strategic decision-making, and team collaboration.
The Chief Offer is how the tribe obtains Cronos, the currency required to purchase further land to harvest, or Movilennium mines to excavate. In Evivve, the Chief Offer is a simultaneous action communicated to all the players through their ERM, offering to pay a certain amount of Cronos if a delivery is made within the required timeframe. The Chief is their initial route to evolving within the available time, as he is the only source of the Cronos they need to either mine Movilennium, or purchase it from the mysterious CROB.
A Chief Offer will specify what is needed, by when, and what the reward in Cronos will be.

The Chief Offers are straight-forward deals requiring resources from the tribe member in return for Cronos. There are no last minute negotiations or changes of heart. The trustworthiness of a Chief Offer allows tribe members to keep their attention on managing the harvesting of their resources.
A Chief Offer is communicated to every tribe member simultaneously through their ERMs; once a single tribe member accepts an offer, the Chief will only accept the delivery from them, and immediately withdraws the offer from all the other players.
However, if an offer is rejected by a single tribe member, the Chief immediately also immediately rescinds that offer to every team member.

As with other aspects of the game, such as the 365 safe days, facilitators can emphasize that many aspects of the game are known, and will be consistent for the duration of the game. The emphasis is on the players to organise themselves in the best way to respond to the Chief’s Offers.
The players should strategize on how they are going to meet the Chief Offers in a quick and effective manner. Various methods can be chosen, from each tribe member concentrating on a small number of resources from the outset, to players quickly deciding on who will take each offer as it appears, to a single leader instructing a specific player to take on an order. The simple nature of the Chief’s interactions enable this emphasis on the player’s choices to be made, removing other variables when it comes time for the players to assess the effectiveness of their chosen method.

The Chief role is integral to Evivve's game design, as it gives the team very clear requests to fulfill through the Chief Offer, and Tribe Rep gives a clear indication of when they are successful in this aim.
While the environment of Evivve is necessarily simple to enable to required learning and analytical goals, the very clear nature of the Chief’s Offers can act as an example to leaders of how clear instructions can empower their teams to make decisions based on the players’ understanding of resource.
The Chief Offers are unrelated to what land the tribe purchases, combined with the requirement to buy more than one hex of land simultaneously this means that the players will have to purchase speculatively, and adapt use of their available land to the Chief’s requirements. This is by design, forcing the players to test their ability to adapt.