Late game gets wildly buggy. I have drones pushing against a dome wall to get resources outside. All my drones are assigned to maintenance tasks, but can't get anything done because they insist on getting stuck pushing against a done wall for resources outside. Once this starts, the game is over and can't be played. Its extremely frustrating. Fix it asap or I will lose all interest.
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Because they're not bad systems, it's players insisting on the bad solutions. Therefore insistence on "bad systems" is nothing more than players trying to complaint and review-bomb their way to victory.
That's precisely why I firmly advocate the complete removal of the colonist micro. It is not an efficient way of managing colonists and the people doing it are almost certainly doing something else wrong at the strategic level anyway for it to mess up their colony. It's a trap option that only exists to make players think that they can win a city management game by being a glorified job placement officer.
That's why your argumentation is backward. I am not insisting on bad systems be retained. I recognize that the micromanagement system does not work - and will never work because human players don't want to admit they are bad at being job placement officers - which is why it should be simply removed.
In short, don't give a micromanagement option for a game that is fundamentally not about micromanagement. By contrast insisting that development resources be soaked up to try and "fix" an unfixable problem is basically insisting on bad systems be retained.
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depends- was the person who got airlocked an idiot who actively refused to,say,repair the life support system because he couldn't gamble,and got half the colony killed?
Refusing to work because they are moping for earth is unworthy of a professional. Further, who exactly pays for the trip home and also for the food they eat while they are whining? And further, many humans actually detest the feeling that they are freeloading, especially when they can see the actions directly.
I've yet to see the AI fail to this, care to share a savegame showing this case?
Alcoholics is a positive indicator for military and for military memes the criminal theft aka appropriations does happen especially if its material you need to do a job and another unit doesn't want to give up or hoarding it.
You have a dome with room for 48 people. the doom has 48 people.
Freshly Baked Scientist leaves the university in another dome, checks for places that want scientists, but the dome is full...
How can this thread be this long without A SINGLE one of you figuring out that full domes = everything breaks down.
Fix the population issue in your game and you fix movement of the population.
The game works fine and the population works well in moving around domes until they get full, so I'm not sure what the whine is about.
Seems like some of you want to sit at a full colony and simply be able to ignore population growth.
Freshly Baked Scientist leaves the university in another dome, checks for places that want scientists, but the dome is full...
How can this thread be this long without A SINGLE one of you figuring out that full domes = everything breaks down.
Fix the population issue in your game and you fix movement of the population.
The game works fine and the population works well in moving around domes until they get full, so I'm not sure what the whine is about.
Seems like some of you want to sit at a full colony and simply be able to ignore population growth.
Well, the real problem with that is swapping. The game doesn't have the ability to handle colonist swapping because it has no way of knowing what each dome needs.
This is why we need concrete value sliders and not this ridiculous thumbs up/down system (which, by basic logic, only really works if you have 2 domes max).
We need the ability to say:
"I want X medics in this dome, and no more."
"I want X botanists in this dome, and no more."
"I want X non-specialists in this dome, and no more."
And, "I want X industry specialists in this dome, and no more."
Once we have that, THEN we can use the thumbs-up/down system to steer excess population into whatever domes we want them.
But without those concrete value sliders, we will NEVER be able to even approach optimal colonist management.
This is why we need concrete value sliders and not this ridiculous thumbs up/down system (which, by basic logic, only really works if you have 2 domes max).
We need the ability to say:
"I want X medics in this dome, and no more."
"I want X botanists in this dome, and no more."
"I want X non-specialists in this dome, and no more."
And, "I want X industry specialists in this dome, and no more."
Once we have that, THEN we can use the thumbs-up/down system to steer excess population into whatever domes we want them.
But without those concrete value sliders, we will NEVER be able to even approach optimal colonist management.
The game in fact does a fairly decent job of switching colonists around based on jobs with the thumb down system. The problem again is when you don't have X botanists to assign in the first place and players blame the AI rather than their own inability to balance labor requirements.
Seriously people need to play more and use the actual tools that work rather than keep proposing stuff that won't save them from their own strategic mistakes. Labor shortage is a player issue, not an AI assignment issue. That the same people keep repeating the same myths and memes about labor assignment while other players are already finding this whole thing to be very easy really demonstrates how this is not a systems issue.