I'm just responding specifically to this part "My immediate suggestion: change the three floppy reports to a weekly task instead of a daily one, or require only a single floppy report per day, to make it a simple, quicker round trip. I'd also like to suggest a moderate decrease to the degradation rate of servers/transformers/towers as a whole, as it is a near-certainty that every day there will be several failures when it comes to the many pieces of equipment we have to maintain, and it gets old fast."
If you play the game set to Easy the required daily hash codes/floppy report and drives lowers and even further on Easy++ (to 2 on Easy and 1 on Easy++) it also decreases the stamina/hunger loss rate and improves the degradation rate of at least the servers and transformers, I'm not sure regarding the coordinate towers as I turn the need to deal with those off 'cause they drive me insane.
It might also make the days slightly longer than the night but again sorry I am not certain.
I don't believe it affects any of the events, again sorry I'm not certain of that. I hope that's somewhat helpful though
Handy hint for the servers and remembering how many they have take a piece of paper with you when you do the report and keep a running track, I also think a lot of people take the servers out of alpha at first to put into the signal dishes because it is quicker and easier to fix those ones then to have to go out and deal with the signal dishes.