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New Players => The Academy => Topic started by: Adseria on October 05, 2018, 07:27:29 AM

Title: Scientists
Post by: Adseria on October 05, 2018, 07:27:29 AM
Is there any way to change which scientist is researching a project once the project is started, or do you just have to cancel and start over?
Title: Re: Scientists
Post by: Tree on October 05, 2018, 07:39:49 AM
You can cancel and change safely, progress isn't lost.
Title: Re: Scientists
Post by: Steve Walmsley on October 05, 2018, 07:42:24 AM
Is there any way to change which scientist is researching a project once the project is started, or do you just have to cancel and start over?

If you cancel a project, the research already done will be saved. You can start a new project, with a new scientist and the partially completed research.
Title: Re: Scientists
Post by: Adseria on October 05, 2018, 07:50:05 AM
Good to know. Thanks, both of you.

EDIT: As a side note, I assume that means that I can stop a half finished project, do another and then come back to the first one without losing any progress?

If so, that would have been useful when I found some alien ruins and then immediately started researching combat engineers to excavate them...
Title: Re: Scientists
Post by: Steve Walmsley on October 05, 2018, 08:08:09 AM
Good to know. Thanks, both of you.

EDIT: As a side note, I assume that means that I can stop a half finished project, do another and then come back to the first one without losing any progress?

If so, that would have been useful when I found some alien ruins and then immediately started researching combat engineers to excavate them...

Yes, you can do that.
Title: Re: Scientists
Post by: TMaekler on October 07, 2018, 07:57:52 AM
Although research isn’t saved globally. If you start and stop a research project on earth, and would later like to continue it on Luna, you would have to start it at zero. If you would continue it on earth, it would pick up at the former point.

I guess this is technically a bug, not a feature.
Title: Re: Scientists
Post by: Adseria on October 07, 2018, 09:32:42 AM
Although research isn’t saved globally. If you start and stop a research project on earth, and would later like to continue it on Luna, you would have to start it at zero. If you would continue it on earth, it would pick up at the former point.

I guess this is technically a bug, not a feature.

Yeah, I already realised this. It seems kind of logical to me. After all, moving the lab a bit at a time, you're bound to lose some paperwork here and there.
Title: Re: Scientists
Post by: tobijon on October 07, 2018, 09:37:32 AM
Although research isn’t saved globally. If you start and stop a research project on earth, and would later like to continue it on Luna, you would have to start it at zero. If you would continue it on earth, it would pick up at the former point.

I guess this is technically a bug, not a feature.

Yeah, I already realised this. It seems kind of logical to me. After all, moving the lab a bit at a time, you're bound to lose some paperwork here and there.

not really, considering the paperwork is digital these days
Title: Re: Scientists
Post by: Adseria on October 07, 2018, 09:44:10 AM
Yes, but computers aren't invincible. You can easily damage a hard drive enough to make data irretrievable, or the technicians might accidentally erase critical data while setting up the lab.
Title: Re: Scientists
Post by: tobijon on October 07, 2018, 09:49:01 AM
but that's more of an accident than a regular occurrence when moving
Title: Re: Scientists
Post by: Adseria on October 07, 2018, 09:59:38 AM
but that's more of an accident than a regular occurrence when moving

You know what, I can see we're not going to agree, so I'll just give up.