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Personnel icon meaning
Posted: Mon Feb 10, 2014 4:32 pm
by nats
All the personnell have three icons to the left of their 'career stats' what do they mean? I assume on might be flight director skill and one might be morale? Perhaps one is intelligence?
Re: Personnel icon meaning
Posted: Mon Feb 10, 2014 10:45 pm
by Sabratha
nats wrote:All the personnell have three icons to the left of their 'career stats' what do they mean? I assume on might be flight director skill and one might be morale? Perhaps one is intelligence?
The heart icon is mrale. The bulb icon afaik is their ability to learn through training.
Re: Personnel icon meaning
Posted: Tue Feb 11, 2014 10:18 pm
by N_Molson
Yes, we agreed not to use "intelligence", which is an ambiguous word. The best definition of the "Lightbulb Icon" would probably be : adaptability, capacity to integrate new theoretical concepts and apply them to find concrete solutions. You have very competent people that doesn't like to change the way they are doing things, and people that might be less competent but are curious always willing to learn. Mission Controllers, i.e., were definitively highly adaptable people, that, in the beginnings, came in with almost no idea of what was Mission Control and learned directly from Chris Kraft who more or less invented the concept. Gene Kranz, Steve Bales, Jay Greene were/are that sort of persons. Geniuses like Serguei Korolev or Wernher Von Braun were, in comparison, probably more attached to their personal way of doing things, but that wasn't a problem, as they literally invented modern rocketry.