What is up with the researcher\s happiness dropping like a rock?

[fefnir3284]

Okay each play through my researchers happiness goes from a fresh 100 to 20-40% after 2-3 days. All my waitresses and chefs never drop that fast if at all. What gives?

[Joe Coffee]

Originally posted by fefnir3284:

Okay each play through my researchers happiness goes from a fresh 100 to 20-40% after 2-3 days. All my waitresses and chefs never drop that fast if at all. What gives?

Kinda legit, but their complaints go away after their pay soars to around 64 gold or so and you never have to worry about a researcher unless you hire a new one.

[Palandus]

Basically, the way happiness drops, is based on how active they are and how much pay they are receiving. The more active they are in a day, the more pay they demand, and if the pay is below the desired threshold, happiness drops during the day. If they are fairly inactive, they don't need much pay and will actually gain happiness. So here are some theoretical numbers to explain it:

For each research point produced in a day, they need 1 gold of wages in a day to have "break-even" happiness. So if they produce 65 research points, they need a wage of 65 gold coins. If they only produce 20 research points, they only need a wage of 20 gold... but if they are at 65 gold, they are going to be super happy that day and gain happiness. But... if your wage is 20 gold, and they produced 65 research points, they will be super unhappy in that day.

Everytime you raise their wage by 1 coin, it automatically raises current happiness by I think 5 points, but in order to maintain or grow happiness, they need to be paid gold equal to or higher than the amount of work they are doing in a day.

It is also why Barkeeps get unhappy faster than waitresses, as they are doing almost 3x the work as them, so they need 3x the wages of a waitress to avoid losing happiness.

[fefnir3284]

I have them at 78 gold and they only do 65 research per day and they still drop like a rock.

[chaddid]

I just keep firing the researchers or let them quit, then hire a new one. I don't see a draw back to that. Unless I just haven't come across it. The researchers I feel don't make much sense. They have to be paid better than anyone, they are reading. Nobody else drops that fast in happiness and they are running around like crazy people.