weather scan as research job on the telescope

[giannikampa]

A bit of coding and thetelescope becomes a job giver: you can queue bill for "scanning the sky".
a researcher works there, his job produces nothing except keeping him there on sourveillance of the clouds.
The first weater related incident (no interference on the story teller is made) will have chanche to be annunced as alwais but be launched with a little delay, i'd say few hours only: the research level of the worker divided by two. the message is changed in "cold snap/tornado/toxic/ecc is coming our way, it will strike any moment now".
if no incident is launced during the shift of the worker then nothing happens, bill is considered done. you got some xp working.

same bill could be given in the command console and it will "delay in time" more incidents like space traders, or more!

I don't see a lot to cheat around such feature. I repeat that you can just delay next event of the story at the cost of the first to be useless skill work.

[AileTheAlien]

+1 This sounds like a pretty cool idea.

[doomdrvk]

This has already been suggested in a similar post about predictable events. https://ludeon.com/forums/index.php?topic=37614.0

[lancar]

+1 from me as well.
Sounds both useful and reasonable.