Slitherine

Here's a suggestion which imho would add tactical depth to research planning.

Allow 6 researchers to a given project. However, the 5th and 6th researcher will be able to operate only at 50% (or even 40%) of their efficiency due to overstaffing.

This will allow some more felxibility and more tactical choices for the player. It might be usefull to send those 2 more researchers if its a critical project that suffered some failure and needs to be put back on its feet as fast as possible. However overstaffing in the long run would obviously be detrimental, as it lowers the efficiency of the whole SET department.
The other choice here is wether to concentrate on just 1 project and overstaff it to give it that additional kick, or rather spread your resources into two or more paralel projects.

Hello Sabratha,

In the current layout, the leftmost researches have a bigger impact in the RD outcome. We still need to tweak the UI in order to make that more clear, but the RD computations already assume that.

If all goes well, I'll be rolling out an improved personnel system this Friday, where you'll be able to send employees to advanced training, they will have an associated 'morale', will quit if they are not being given assignments, etc. That will surely add lots of moving parts that will add tactical depth.

Notice that, once we start tuning the values in the game, things will change so that having four SET guys for each component becomes a very rare exception.

Cheers,

Nacho84 wrote:Notice that, once we start tuning the values in the game, things will change so that having four SET guys for each component becomes a very rare exception.

Ah, thanks for the clarification. I made that suggestion based on teh current settings, where 4 researchers were the norm on prioritized projects.