[FIXED]Training staff

[Eric.B]

i don't know how to post a crash log but currently when i try to install the game my antivirus (avast) says that gnuplot.exe is infected with a virus and refuses to install it (i'm guessing this is a false positive) and when i try to start the game it crashes (probably because gnuplot is missing). for some strange reason though this didn't happen a few weeks ago when i installed the original unpatched beta.

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i would like to suggest that you add a feature to train your staff so that even if you set up a factory in a low wage country with low quality workers you can train them to become more skilled.

This could be possible, but I'm not sure how it would affect game play. I'll look into it when i redesign the build factory/branch stuff.

if you don't want to unbalance the game and make it overpowered you could always make it take a while to train them. maybe 6 months up to several years depending on how skilled they are at the start and how much you want to train them. you could just make the time it takes to train them linear. so if they have the lowest possible skill and you want to train them to the highest possible skill it would take maybe a year or two. and you would still have to pay their wages during that time in addition to paying for the training itself. that way it wouldn't be insanely overpowered but it would still let you set up high quality manufacturing in low wage and low skill countries.

It seems like your bug is from this:
http://www.ventdev.com/forums/showthread.php?tid=381

When you had the original version it probably blacklisted gnuplot when you opened a chart, thus it won't let you install the patch because gnuplot is blacklisted.

I'm going to open a ticket with the avast people and hopefully get this fixed.





I may add a training system, much like we have "retool" in factories. It won't raise the skills of the city (because that's more than just training), but it would increase manufacturing production of workers. Anyhoo we'll see when I get there.


The main thing is, there has to be a way to prevent massive outsourcing until at least the 1960s.