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EternalDragon

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Mar 18, 2018
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Let me explain my point. I encountered an issue when universities claimed that there were 0 scientists required in the colony and produced no more. However, I've checked all buildings in a particular dome and have found that only 3 out of 12 scientists actually worked. The reason was that other 9 scientists were in a senior age and didn't work. To solve the problem and to allow universities to produce more scientists I set up another dome just for Seniors, waited for them to resettle and turned off oxygen.

This example shows the issue: Senior colonists shouldn't be counted when universities decide how many of the particular specialists the colony needs. I know that I can manually make universities to produce a specific profession but it is too tedious and I prefer to run them in automatic mode.

P.S. I want to stress that the problem is not in the fact that seniors don't work. It is in the fact that universities count not-working seniors as an eligible working force and don't produce fresh workers with the given profession.
 
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I think the better idea would be to just make sure there is a toggle for universities to count seniors or not [Forever Young brekathrough comes to mind as reason for counting seniors] instead of making them drop specialization alltogether;
 
or perhaps tie the dropping specialization to not looking for work but "remember" what it is so Earthsick colonists aren't counted by universities, but than if they decide to stay or you get forever young they can regain their former spec.