work-for-faction.js: Ignores clearly more effective jobs for reputation gain

[guy-732]

The script refuses to switch to Security Supervisor job and even switches back to the previous, less effective one after manually switching to Security Supervisor.

[alainbryden]

Hey @guy-732 , thanks for the report.

Indeed, this is known behaviour and a bit by design. The idea is that if your focus is on the hack stat, only hacking jobs are worthwhile, and that if your focus is on the physical stats, most likely you are either committing crime or doing faction work, not doing job / corporate work.

There are probably niche moments towards the end of a bitnode where physical stats have scaled significantly more than hack (which they tend to do late in BNs with most augmentations installed), but at that point there's often little need to work for companies unless you're trying to get the last few company-faction-exclusive augmentations, and then your stats are probably so high that the difference between hacking your way to CEO and a different job is a matter of minutes.

If that's not always true, I might consider expanding support for different career paths, but I'd need to know the logic for when to switch to that career path, because the game itself doesn't provide an API for telling you how much EXP/second you're gaining from a given job - only the UI gets that information - so there's no easy way to know when to switch.