#BoardGames idea: Mend
There are plenty of engine builders out there, where typically you get your engine up and running and then get to turn the crank once or twice before the game ends.
What if, instead, we had an engine maintainer?
Your economic engine would be up and running at the beginning of the game. The task is to maintain it by:
* Repairing or replacing components that wear out over time
* Performing preventive maintenance to prevent wear
* Fine-tuning the engine's efficiency
* Adapting the engine to a (relatively slowly) changing environment
* Occasionally recognizing that an entire multi-component part of your engine needs to be replaced. You'd want to cannibalize what you can to both avoid the expense of buying new things and the cost of disposing of waste; limited space means you do have to get rid of your waste.
Thoughts? Does it already exist?
Perhaps in a sense Pandemic is a maintenance game.
@peterdrake interesting idea. You could have the engine producing undesirable byproducts initially that give you negative points and improve processes to reduce that.