Head scratching

[Elmo182]

Is there anyway to stop it or be able to predict it. The amount of times i have been completly skrewed over because of a head scratch right at the end of a contract is honestly ruining the fun of the game. i get that its meant to be like a mind block sort of thing but with how fast time goes in this game and how long the head scratch goes on for i've become bankcrupt so mant time just because of that

[Jack Krauser]

Well, welcome to real life. Seriously tho, just start with really small contracts if you're about to bankrupt, have a second person in the company once you reach a stable budget, having two persons for contract will ease things up a bit.

[Elmo182]

Originally posted by Barney Calhoun:

Well, welcome to real life. Seriously tho, just start with really small contracts if you're about to bankrupt, have a second person in the company once you reach a stable budget, having two persons for contract will ease things up a bit.

I was doing fine i saved up enough to get the TES liscence and still have 30k left over. saw how much it was to make a TES game so i went with pc again 15k gone, decided to do a contract i knew i could do half way through loose 8k get 1 point off from completing... head scratch..... final 8k comes out fail contract penalty comes out
rekt

[Jack Krauser]

Originally posted by Elmo182:

Originally posted by Barney Calhoun:

Well, welcome to real life. Seriously tho, just start with really small contracts if you're about to bankrupt, have a second person in the company once you reach a stable budget, having two persons for contract will ease things up a bit.

I was doing fine i saved up enough to get the TES liscence and still have 30k left over. saw how much it was to make a TES game so i went with pc again 15k gone, decided to do a contract i knew i could do half way through loose 8k get 1 point off from completing... head scratch..... final 8k comes out fail contract penalty comes out
rekt

Yeeaahh, don't buy console licenses until you have enough money to make one or two games afterward, I suggest you earn between 300k and 500k dollars before buying TES' license

[Elmo182]

Originally posted by Barney Calhoun:

Originally posted by Elmo182:

I was doing fine i saved up enough to get the TES liscence and still have 30k left over. saw how much it was to make a TES game so i went with pc again 15k gone, decided to do a contract i knew i could do half way through loose 8k get 1 point off from completing... head scratch..... final 8k comes out fail contract penalty comes out
rekt

Yeeaahh, don't buy console licenses until you have enough money to make one or two games afterward, I suggest you earn between 300k and 500k dollars before buying TES' license

Im not financially responsible enough in reallife yetalone for this game

[Jack Krauser]

Originally posted by Elmo182:

Originally posted by Barney Calhoun:

Yeeaahh, don't buy console licenses until you have enough money to make one or two games afterward, I suggest you earn between 300k and 500k dollars before buying TES' license

Im not financially responsible enough in reallife yetalone for this game

Don't worry, it's a learnable mistake, just keep playing and you'll get the hang of it.

[Mr. Rain]

Head Scratching is the game's way of showing your character has low stats. Of course when you start, your main character is not going to have the best stats, but better than most starting employees.

So, predicting it is really more about knowing how good your employees/main character are. In the early game, you kind of have to live with it and take the safest contracts you can until you get more people and training.

[Fabiano]

I agree with the fact that the damn head scratching almost completely ruins the whole experience.
Not because of the randomness, some good/bad events in a tycoon game are a must, but because it's not explained in any way.
It doesn't look like a bad random event, it looks and, more importantly, feels like an extremely irritating bug.

I wouldn't mind it so much if they randomly took sick leaves, yet I'd like it be explained or indicated in some way, maybe with a bar showing how much time is left... they could collapse on their desk or chairs with smoking forehead, with an ice bag and flu...
I'm having a hard time restraining my curses against that most fastidious animation!

Well at least I'm glad to know it's meant to work that way, but absolutely don't agree with the artistic choice.

[Great Sage Equal of Heaven]

Settle petals. They're people, not automatons.

[Elmo182]

im guessing more people been getting annoyed with this mechanic considering someone necro'd this thread from 2017 lol