tours rating for custom contraptions

[mala]

Hi everyone, i'm playing the science museum, upgraded a bunch of machines to lvl3, they all show the pristine plaque with 3 slots, set up a tour, but the quality is always average, no matter what i do. Even if i select a single item for the tour, it still shows average exhibit rating. Do custom contraption increase in rating after being upgraded? Are they always considered average lvl because they are custom made?

[Kessra]

Tour qualities depend on multiple things. First, the respective tour trait(s) on the expert who does the tour, the quality of the exhibits, the knowledge you have unlocked of the exhibit you include, the nearby beautifications as well as, and probably most important, the distance people have to go during the tour. Also, The amount of exhibits you visit has some influence. The more you add, the further distance the tour has to cover and the more likely it is to lose overall tour rating.

The ingame information on tour guides also state that visitors value exhibits that belong to each other more than randomly put together tours. Not sure if the game interanally adds some bonuses for exhibits that belong to the same category and sub-group, like anomalies or the like.

In order to maximize the tour quality you therefore should use trained staff, keep distances short and place enough beautification items nearby. If you do all that, you might end up with an high enough rating.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3447365459

Note further, if I'd add the 9th anomaly to the list, even though the expert and the visitors barely have to move in this case, I'd lose 1/4 of a star. I've tried it multiple times to get in that 9th anomaly but the game always punishes me for attempting it. And as the pathing at times is bugged anyway, by generating de"tour"s, which can redude the quality of the tour by more than 2 stars easily, I try to not touch setup tours further.

[mala]

On custom contraption the knowledge is always maxed out. Only expert with tour skill are allowed to run them, perfect decoration, cohesion and length. Only parameters that doesn't seems to change is the "avg. quality" rating.
As i said, every machine in the tour is lvl3 (golden pristine plaque), but "avg. quality" is always "average". Even if i select a single exhibit for the tour, still average quality. Only happening with custom contraptions, never had problems like that on other type of exhibits.

[Kessra]

This can either be a bug in your game due to some state your game accumulated or there's an other issue with your setup. Does the customer response section on the tour state anything like what they're missing or what was great?

If you could post a screenshot or a short clip this could probably help to find problems within your setup. Maybe you configured a tour that detours due to a bug or you added exhibits that don't fit together (in the eye of your visitors) or other things are missing.

[mala]

i'll try to post a screenshot later, maybe we can find out what's wrong
Thanks for the reply :)

[mala]

here's the screenshot for the tour. As you can see on the right, there are only lvl3 exhibits, and still, average quality

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3447687243

[Prometheus]

I have this issue too. Custom contraptions only count as average quality for tours no matter the upgrade level. I forgot if there is a star quest for a tour of them. If there is I passed it no problem then just reset the tour to something I could pristine.

[mala]

yea, given that even if i put a single exhibit in the tour, it still gives me average rating... probably it's just the way it is. Custom stuff is average by default

[vlydeX]

Pretty sure this is a bug. I've also noticed that "upgraded contraptions" don't seem to register with the conservation specialist or science fans

[vlydeX]

I'm creating a thread in the bug forum

[MrImpiz]

Originally posted by mala:

Hi everyone, i'm playing the science museum, upgraded a bunch of machines to lvl3, they all show the pristine plaque with 3 slots, set up a tour, but the quality is always average, no matter what i do. Even if i select a single item for the tour, it still shows average exhibit rating. Do custom contraption increase in rating after being upgraded? Are they always considered average lvl because they are custom made?

I reported this forever ago, it was indeed a bug. Surprised they haven't fixed it yet.

Edit: My post https://steamcommunity.com/app/2185060/discussions/1/594016664992889876/

[Jaggid Edje]

Heh, I have this same bug and never noticed it. The overall "tour rating" is still solid on what tours I set up and I never noticed what it showed for "quality"...but it is indeed showing "average" even though all my contraptions are Pristine.