Also, and this is also buried in the suggestions thread, late game when you have 4k+ officers it takes a very long time to open the commanders menu, this is because the officer filtering/sorting on the bottom right of the screen will automatically filter out the massive list of officers from lowest rank to highest rank.
Either add a "filter" button to make the filtering manual or make it so that by default it sorts from highest rank to highest rank - which keeps the list small much later into the game and improves the speed at which the commander screen opens.
Anyways, on the topic of more roles for leaders I fully support it but I don't think it will come with this update. What I do hope will come, and what I assume would just require a minor tweak to a variable or two, is making Ground Officers spawn much more rapidly.
If you assign a ground officer as academy commandant, it will generate more ground force officers.
Anyways, on the topic of more roles for leaders I fully support it but I don't think it will come with this update. What I do hope will come, and what I assume would just require a minor tweak to a variable or two, is making Ground Officers spawn much more rapidly.
As well as tweakable rank ratios - I would like the academy structure to get split into Naval, Ground, Science and Management types that each give out their own type of characters only. If you don't want it to be that granular instead make it so that the separation is military academy (naval, ground), civilian academy (admin, scientist) instead. I have made this suggestion on the thread before but the post is pretty deeply buried by now.
Anyways, on the topic of more roles for leaders I fully support it but I don't think it will come with this update. What I do hope will come, and what I assume would just require a minor tweak to a variable or two, is making Ground Officers spawn much more rapidly. I personally think they should be more plentiful than Naval officers since I'd bet recruiting standards would be low (no offense to anyone in the Army but an Naval officer is probably a literal rocket scientist at least). However, I'd settle for them spawning at the same rate as Naval officers for now.
This would need to be coupled with a general buff to officer spawn rates (say from 5/yr to 6/yr per academy) so that adding ground officers isn't taking away naval officers and scientists. The latter two are arguably more vital which I think is why ground force officers currently are underrepresented, so ideally we can bump up the spawn rate overall so that all officers are well-represented. I would prefer if quality of officers were a limit on military expansion rather than quantity as it is now.QuoteWhat would be even better is a way to tweak leader spawn rates from the game options menu, just like you can with survey speeds and such.
Would support this especially coupled with the ability to set rank ratios - bring back 4:1 ground forces!
Anyways, on the topic of more roles for leaders I fully support it but I don't think it will come with this update. What I do hope will come, and what I assume would just require a minor tweak to a variable or two, is making Ground Officers spawn much more rapidly. I personally think they should be more plentiful than Naval officers since I'd bet recruiting standards would be low (no offense to anyone in the Army but an Naval officer is probably a literal rocket scientist at least). However, I'd settle for them spawning at the same rate as Naval officers for now.
What would be even better is a way to tweak leader spawn rates from the game options menu, just like you can with survey speeds and such.
When I play I usually have all my scientists researching even with only 1 lab cause it can give them bonuses to their research stat or max labs.
Quote from: nuclearslurpee link=topic=12088. msg149424#msg149424 date=1614300991Quote from: ZimRathbone link=topic=12088. msg149423#msg149423 date=1614300529Quote from: Jorgen_CAB link=topic=12088. msg149401#msg149401 date=1614171642In regard to "Miscellaneous Components" I was wondering if we could also link them to a character type. Say I want my science vessel to be equipped with a science lab section and then add a scientist to the ship. I think this would be fun for role-play perspective and give some needed jobs to characters that otherwise don't have any even if they don't actually do anything.
I could think of many other reasons for attaching different types of commanders, administrators or the like to ships.
I usually just use the Science Department option for this (150 tons seems reasonable & it creates an officer slot for the ship too). I use the same thing for my hospital ships treatment rooms, just headcanon that the officer is a doctor, or manufactory (officer is an engineer) and so forth. A long as the component is not really changing the capabilities of the ship it works OK.
I think Jorgen's idea was more to have a component where unused scientists and civ admins could be stationed for flavor. . . currently, many of these officers have not got much to do for large parts of the game - many civ admins won't be useful until late game when you have many developed colonies, and many scientists will just never get used because there's 2-3 better in their field. Ideally, it would be nice for those leaders to still have a chance to contribute, but as no niche exists for them flavor reasons and a new misc component would be sufficient.
On the topic of massive amounts of unused officers, it would be nice if there was something mechanically useful we could use them for. Scientists in particular have very few being useful at any one time relative to the amount of idlers. Maybe something akin to VB's Task Force staff officers? Or some sort of background task they can be assigned to?
On the topic of massive amounts of unused officers, it would be nice if there was something mechanically useful we could use them for. Scientists in particular have very few being useful at any one time relative to the amount of idlers. Maybe something akin to VB's Task Force staff officers? Or some sort of background task they can be assigned to?
Quote from: ZimRathbone link=topic=12088. msg149423#msg149423 date=1614300529Quote from: Jorgen_CAB link=topic=12088. msg149401#msg149401 date=1614171642In regard to "Miscellaneous Components" I was wondering if we could also link them to a character type. Say I want my science vessel to be equipped with a science lab section and then add a scientist to the ship. I think this would be fun for role-play perspective and give some needed jobs to characters that otherwise don't have any even if they don't actually do anything.
I could think of many other reasons for attaching different types of commanders, administrators or the like to ships.
I usually just use the Science Department option for this (150 tons seems reasonable & it creates an officer slot for the ship too). I use the same thing for my hospital ships treatment rooms, just headcanon that the officer is a doctor, or manufactory (officer is an engineer) and so forth. A long as the component is not really changing the capabilities of the ship it works OK.
I think Jorgen's idea was more to have a component where unused scientists and civ admins could be stationed for flavor. . . currently, many of these officers have not got much to do for large parts of the game - many civ admins won't be useful until late game when you have many developed colonies, and many scientists will just never get used because there's 2-3 better in their field. Ideally, it would be nice for those leaders to still have a chance to contribute, but as no niche exists for them flavor reasons and a new misc component would be sufficient.
