Education in Town - bug or I don't know about something?

[krzysztof.rz.byd]

Hi,
I have a weird situation. My Township level is 49 now and I play in Adventure mode.
To this day I had 50% of education - and everything was fine.
Suddenly (and I don't know when exactly but for sure today) my education was down to 25%.

My question is why?
My population is: 2544 people.

Best Regards,
Krzysztof.

[ZoS Gaming]

It's not a bug. The penalty probably comes from change of seasons. Winter hast a -50% penalty to education. It will go up again once you reach spring. You can check the modifiers at the top of the screen. There's a button "Seasonal modifiers" or something like that.

[krzysztof.rz.byd]

I thought like that, but I have summer.
I chose the Terran god.

[Truth_X_ile]

You'll want to make sure that any educational buildings are repaired, if they are not fully upgraded to any of the tiers, simply upgrading the building once will repair it as well, if the building is fully upgraded, there should be a yellow box with a wrench and screwdriver to repair it by itself

I highly suggest NOT repairing all buildings, as it's costly until you unlock the skillcapes and upgrading Markets for even less repair costs, only repair what you need unless you necessarily need specific buildings for any reason

While Gods are a feature, you don't really make use of them until far later, when you can upgrade to have Worship from only 2 buildings available, having enough would provide a percentage of said tier to grant a bonus, where I doubt you have available as it seems you are in early stages of Township

Your current god doesn't have a negative towards Education at all

Just don't forget, Township is a costly skill, having reserves of large amounts of money is a must, to keep upgrading, repairing and growing of course

Good Luck & Have Fun

[krzysztof.rz.byd]

I have fully repaired buildings :) It's quite cheap for now.
In my opinion, it's a bug - It looks like summer is treated as winter or maybe there are a few other problems.

It's very weird because when you start township you have:
50% happiness
50% education

Now I have summer and my township has:
0% happiness
25% education

something is wrong.

[Truth_X_ile]

Well in that case, it sounds like you haven't built any of the buildings regarding Education or Happiness

Until you reached the specific level and required resources to actually build them, you won't have full access to those features, and obviously in your case, as it's just Seasons giving you the bonuses

Upon inspection of the Season Modifiers, you are in fact experiencing just that, it's just each season has a bonus or negative, you're seeing the Seasons Bonuses, not necessarily the bonus of starting with a boost as you start Township

Strictly just going to mention Happiness & Education bonuses
Spring: has +50% Education & +50% Happiness as bonuses
Summer: has +25% Education
Fall: Unaffected Education & Happiness
Winter: -50% Education & -50% Happiness

You can also view the Season Modifiers, where the next town update is, if you click the button for View Season Modifiers, it'll show what positive or negative bonuses for each season affects your town

Good Luck & Have Fun

[zirune]

Spring has +50% happiness and +50% education.

Summer only has +25% education and no happiness change, which is exactly the difference you're seeing.

[krzysztof.rz.byd]

Aaaaa I see. zirune and... you (:D) are right.
Spring had bonuses for happiness and education and now is summer and these bonuses are not existing.

Great! Thank you for explaining. It's quite clear when you know how it works, but it's a new mechanism in the game and I thought that something is wrong.

Ok, I'm going to beat a few mobs :D

[Truth_X_ile]

Township has a lot of features, it's easy to get lost in so many different areas in terms of how many features there are, easily overwhelming to new users trying to understand it as they start, even if doing specific things, as you level up and unlock more buildings, keep up to date with newer features you have to manage

The more you mess around and understand how Township works, it really does get really easy and understandable, until you reach max level, then it literally just becomes an idle bonus with taxes and trader stock

I finally was able to reach max level on my Adventure Mode character, didn't take as long as it would have, having known to just keep my Happiness Buildings & Estate Buildings repaired for maximum XP, also wise to note if you want extra bonus XP during this time also, if you skill with the Skills Ring on, you'll get extra XP that way too, so every time your Town updates hourly, you'll get bonus XP, or any other XP boosting gear or bonuses

Good Luck & Have Fun