Suggestion: use excess meal time for recreation.

[FDru]

Or at least an option to do so.

Would be helpful to squeeze in more recreation without dedicating extra schedule slots for it.

[Jay]

This is a nice idea, and make it simpler to get some of the 'great day' type trials.

In case you didn't know - if you hit F8 while in game, you can make suggestions directly to the devs.

[FDru]

Originally posted by Jay:

In case you didn't know - if you hit F8 while in game, you can make suggestions directly to the devs.

Oh, cool. Thanks!

[Jilocasin]

Would be nice. Right now I put a work slot after eating, because if they finished their meal they start a work task anyway and if you schedule anything else after eating they rarely even reach that task

[Aldehydra]

Originally posted by Jay:

This is a nice idea, and make it simpler to get some of the 'great day' type trials.

Those are already really easy to get if you micromanage the student a bit. You can manually tell them to skip classes and dance instead.

[Jay]

Originally posted by Aldehydra:

Originally posted by Jay:

This is a nice idea, and make it simpler to get some of the 'great day' type trials.

Those are already really easy to get if you micromanage the student a bit. You can manually tell them to skip classes and dance instead.

True.
I have a "great day" schedule that is basically sleep, eat and dance. All day and night. And set to include anyone with one of those trials.

Means I don't get any production/learning from them for that day or two, but means I don't have to alert either.

[TheBeardyMan]

There is a way to do this already.

1. Put all of your meal times on one schedule, and put that schedule at the top of the schedules list. For example, if your mages eat and sleep in 3 shifts, that schedule might look like this (E = eat, T = tasks, R = recreation):

TTETTTETTTETTTETTTETTTET

2. Put all of your recreation times on one schedule, and put that schedule immediately below the eating schedule. If you want each recreation period to be 4 hours, and you want the second meal time of each day to fall through to recreation, that schedule might look like this:

TTRRRRTTTTRRRRTTTTRRRRTT

3. To assign a mage to two of those meal times in a day, create a group with the following rules:

A "Membership" type rule including the mage:

Member: Any: Mage's name here

2 "Time of day" type rules to include the meal times. For example, to select the 06:00 - 07:00 and 18:00 - 19:00 meal times, those rules would be:

Time of day: In: 06:00 - 19:00
Time of day: Not In: 07:00 - 18:00

A "Status" type rule to exclude mages who've finished their meal:

Status: None: Full

and assign that group to your meal times schedule.

4. To assign a mage to a recreation period to which their schedule will "fall through" when they've finished their meal, create another group with the following rules:

A "Membership" type rule including the mage:

Member: Any: Mage's name here

A "Time of day" type rule to include the recreation period. For example, to select a period overlapping the 18:00 - 1900 meal time, the rule might be:

Time of day: In: 18:00 - 22:00

and assign that group to your recreation schedule.

At meal time, the time of day rules for your meal time group will cause the mage to be added to the group and moved to the meal time schedule, which has eating at this hour, so the mage will eat. When the mage has finished their meal, the status rule of the meal time group will remove the mage from that group. The time of day rules for your recreation group have already added the mage to that group, so the schedule to which the mage will fall through will be the recreation schedule which has recreation at the current hour.

[Jay]

Originally posted by TheBeardyMan:

There is a way to do this already.
...

I think I get this, but I'm not really sure. Would it be possible for you to add a screenshot of your schedule, pls?

I can follow it when it's the simple meal --> recreation situation. But I start to lose it when I need to have students in class, students currently not for classes (waiting their last trials), night vs. day shift, specific trial schedules, etc. Once I get a bunch of different types of groups, I start losing my understanding of it.