06-28-2014, 01:21 AM
Any manager worth their salt will tell you that a companies most valuable asset is its staff and that investing in your workers will almost always yield the best long term return for your company.
I've been playing a game in Indonesia where I am making ludicrously high quality and high priced performance cars and luxury cars and selling them all over the world and I've noticed that the skill of my workers doesn't appear to have improved at all. After 30 odd years of making the most complex cars in the world the labour skill in my home city is still only half a star..... 0_o
Now, I don't think just plonking a factory down in a city and making expensive cars there should automatically improve the skills of the workers in that city (though it would likely have some effect over time) but I do think there should be a way for the player to actively improve workers skills.
I suggest introducing a training program that will allow you to allocate a budget (on a city by city basis) to improve the skills of your factory workers, branch employees and marketing staff. (I don't know if the latter two have skills levels in the game atm but it would make sense that educating them on how to sell your cars would both cost money and give benefit). This should have a direct and significant (if you spend enough) effect of the skill of your own workers whilst also slowly improving the average rating of the workers in the cities you're doing the training. After all, some of your educated employees will take the skills you taught them and go work elsewhere, potentially passing some of that knowledge on and generally improving the worker skill level in that area. Hell, it could even have a smaller effect on neighbouring cities as well.
I've been playing a game in Indonesia where I am making ludicrously high quality and high priced performance cars and luxury cars and selling them all over the world and I've noticed that the skill of my workers doesn't appear to have improved at all. After 30 odd years of making the most complex cars in the world the labour skill in my home city is still only half a star..... 0_o
Now, I don't think just plonking a factory down in a city and making expensive cars there should automatically improve the skills of the workers in that city (though it would likely have some effect over time) but I do think there should be a way for the player to actively improve workers skills.
I suggest introducing a training program that will allow you to allocate a budget (on a city by city basis) to improve the skills of your factory workers, branch employees and marketing staff. (I don't know if the latter two have skills levels in the game atm but it would make sense that educating them on how to sell your cars would both cost money and give benefit). This should have a direct and significant (if you spend enough) effect of the skill of your own workers whilst also slowly improving the average rating of the workers in the cities you're doing the training. After all, some of your educated employees will take the skills you taught them and go work elsewhere, potentially passing some of that knowledge on and generally improving the worker skill level in that area. Hell, it could even have a smaller effect on neighbouring cities as well.