How the hell do contracts work?

[Lycon]

I'm in my garage, accepting a contract and seriouslly, is it just luck? is it just RNG?
How the hell does it work :S i fail 9/10 times.

[I love memes]

The higher your skill level from developing, the more sucessful on contracts. But I use them mostly for research points

[Lycon]

Where can you see your skill lvl?

[Djior]

i believe when you are in your garage you can only see your characters level when you made a game and the xp in all area's is shown ( the lvl's that are than showing about evry part of the game development ) there at the end it shows your lvl, once out of your garage you can actually see your skills in design technology etc. ( atleast as far as i know )

[Musedoom]

Is there any way to involve the whole crew of my company on a contract?. I mean, everytime I accept a contract only my character works on it but my employees do nothing so I fail many contracts. There are too many design or technology points to generate for just one character.

[54x]

Your whole company ALWAYS works on contracts.

If you're not getting any contribution from your employees, they will either need to rest (if they have depleted efficiency bars) or train. (as your default character starts off with quite high skills compared to early game recruits) Once your company has a few skilled employees, smaller contracts are actually a great way to continue to earn money while one or two characters are on vacation or already set to prepare a game report or research a topic or engine feature. (basically you want to be either designing a game or occupying ALL employees at all times so you don't waste rent money)

[Musedoom]

Originally posted by 54x:

Your whole company ALWAYS works on contracts.

Really?. I thought my character was the only one working on them cos the bubbles emerged only from his head :D

[Metallicobra41]

Not really the same kind of question so sorry if I wander off the topic too much but anyway:

How often does the contracts renew? After I made a medium/large game I often wait until G3 starts again and during that half-year I make contract work until there's no more available, when do new contracts become available?

When does the third office actually become available? I'm at year 23 and I have a full team where everyone have at least 200 in Design and Tech. Is it random or am I doing something wrong?

Thanks in advance!