Too many teammembers

[justme]

What exactly reduced efficiency: Having too many people in a team or too many in a project.
If requirement are 4 programmers and I put two teams with 4 programmers onto the project but have them work in non-overlapping shifts, will that still be too many and decrease efficiency?

[cfranks007]

From real life experience, yeah, more people working on a project decreases efficiency. Even in production with two shifts, people would change machine settings to their liking (although, these were wire bonding machines for integrated circuits and sort of a "personal" machine)..

[druzilsupreme]

I can understand how that may be true in real life, but is that how alpha 9 runs it? Also, will too many team members actually slow a project, or will the gains of additional workers simply be less noticeable?

[justme]

My thoughts exactly: Is this the way the game works? Plus, will it notice that if I put at team of let's say 5 on a project for 2 but three people are away on training the whole time that there is no drag?

[Erectrician]

i would be pretty happy too if coredumping respondes to this.
I had some big hits recently and now i want to get into the processor business.
Im planing to get 6 Teams for that.
2x 0-8am workers
2x 8am - 16pm workers
2x 16pm - 0am workers
The reason for having 6 instead of 3 teams is that they need to go on holiday but i want to produce the full year. though that project needs about 22 ppl per team ( 15programmers, 5 designers, 2 artists) i would be really glad to know if its the same as in the other builds of Software Inc that more Workers than recommended are dumbing your Quality and Time.

[SRR Krieg]

in every one of my experiences (126 hours into this game) the answer is yes. I've also found that 1 team with the happy medium (numbers of employees) will complete a project faster than said team split into 2 or 3. This can be easily tested by saving your game right before beginning production and making yourself a few scenarios to run thru. Throw one team at it, mark down your results. Reload the game, throw same team split into two teams, mark your results. etc etc.

[freelancer909]

Try to have one team with high skills. Better to be short members then over. Efficency and skill determine speed and accuracy.