Update to allow children to grow up

[shinkim4077]

I know that the scenarios only last for a couple of months but for endless mode, it can last for as long as you're willing to play. Perhaps every once and a while a child gets old enough to be considered an adult and becomes a worker or engineer.

I ask this because there comes a point where too many workers and engineers die and I have too many children to take care of. Even worse when we're talking about the new dlc where I have to send workers for the helping hands improvements. Sure I can ask for more workers from them but it's still a problem.

[Bobywan]

Maybe if you play endless for 3000 days you ll get grown up ^^ or be bored to death before.

[Mikebloke]

I would argue settlements fix this by allowing asking for workers. If your favour is high with the Wood camp you can get 15 workers instead of 5. I'm pretty sure you can request engineers from them or one of the other camps too with high favour.

edit: I've gone 100 days in an endless game, but I don't think I've ever bothered to get to 200. There's... nothing to do. Automatons do everything.

[Ebithril]

Hate to sound snarky but... don't let them die?
I mean, it ain't really THAT hard keeping people alive, is it? :P

And like Mike said - you can easily request more then enough workers from the other settlements if you jsut keep asking whenever your favor is high enough.
Not to mention, you find survivors.

Also, on my current endless I am on day 50 - all research is done, and I am sitting on 60 engineers doing nothing. I could maybe build another infirmary incase another apocalypse happens, but really one is doing just fine atm.
Either way, PLENTY of personel.
Also have 40 regular workers surplus, though there are more helping hands requests I can fullfill - still, I can just ask for workers from the people I will send the workers too... because that ain't lazy coding or anything! XD

[amordron]

Your issue is from settlements needing workers and eng to send but the fix is also from settlements NOT making kids grow as that wouldent make sense before at least day 700 (2 years passing at min) whcih is a level that most players will never get to.

From settlements PER storm you can get 50 workers OR 5 eng and 35 workers OR 10 eng and 20 workers. That is more than enough to offset the people taken from settlements. If you have a issue beyond that of to many kids the answer is as said don't let them die. Or your needing more than 50 people sent to help you per storm + the ~100 found per storm on top the issue is with your build nothing more. Really if you get to child hevy can just stop looking for scout locations and onyl request. In fact extreme is doable without ever scouting now other than finding the settlements and requesting as you even get steam cores from them via the events (that don't end if you don't fully upgrade them) so can fully control kid amount other than the starting kids. You don't even need to upgrade the settlements its a loss to in endless with little value the resource trade is just not worth. So only spare resources should be sent this includes workers and eng only send the extra you get from requesting when ever you don't got jobs for them.

Otherwise take child labor OR child shelters so the kids have value. Child labor being better for endless by far as don't need to rush tech via child eng so that ones not really great and child health care is just worse than kids in house of healing, While child labor to get them in house of healing would give spare for other places. + the option for unsafe workplaces to make them into workers if still to many killing them of as a bonus. If order kid med is still only so so as you vary quickly reach a point where the boosted med from kid helpers is just not worth vs thevalue of hothouses and thumper staffed for little cost.

[RainingMetal]

Or maybe have the option to send children out to other settlements.

[amordron]

Originally posted by RainingMetal:

Or maybe have the option to send children out to other settlements.

Also need an option to pass a law to exile all children. Raise discontent a ton hope plummets but gets rid of kids