My Production Capacity Is Unlimited. Could I Be a Honkai: Star Rail Planner?

(Blurry QR-code teacher Xu Zhao, hoping to salvage Honkai: Star Rail's dangerously poor reputation, decides to hire a new planner for miHoYo.)

(Also known as The Self-Redemption of the Honored Earthling Mahayu and The Aeon of Elation Teaches You How to Be a Planner.)

(One heroine: Xu Zhao + game development)

"Hello."

"Hello."

"I'm applying for the Honkai: Star Rail planner position."

"I can see that."

"Here's my degree and internship experience."

"A bachelor's from a non-elite university and no experience at a major company. Interesting. Are you proficient in Unity? Do you have any scripting experience? Can you adapt your skills to the needs of the job?"

"Do you mean 'proficient' in the way I think you do?"

"...I understand why you left that off your resume. So what are your strengths?"

"I can play dead when the community starts posting things that could hurt the game, buff characters by giving them wooden clubs and then promote new characters, tie the gacha banners to the story, shelve old characters and never rerun them, make maps less and less substantial while rerunning old content as if it were a real investment, leave the game without events and let the dead patches drag on, merge the main story with a competitor's and stall it forever, and stop making four-star characters because I want to make money."

"Every planner knows how to do that stuff now. That's not a strength."

"(Folds his hands solemnly) I can also increase imaginary output."

"(Folds his hands just as solemnly) You're hired."

(The protagonist is a productivity monster who can bring an endless stream of extra output to Honkai: Star Rail.)

(Dawei: This is a fantasy.)