Project management help please

[hellbiter88]

It's just flat out NOT working.

No matter what I try to do, no matter how many settings I tweak. They simply won't start generating projects.

Can someone please tell me step by step how to get this feature to work? Automated projects are kind of what I do in this game.

Edit: I'm on the alpha 9 unstable release.

[Admiral Fisher]

I have the same issue! it won't start the new project but it will just sit there until my company is bankrupt with the project in que.

[hellbiter88]

Originally posted by mab:

I have the same issue! it won't start the new project but it will just sit there until my company is bankrupt with the project in que.

Oh ok. Maybe it's just a bug, then.

I thought maybe I was too stupid to figure out how to get it to work

[Coredumping]

You have to use the design document window to add an initial design. You can queue up as many as you'd like, but they need one in the beginning to base the rest of the projects on, if you have them set to auto generate products.

[hellbiter88]

Originally posted by Coredumping:

You have to use the design document window to add an initial design. You can queue up as many as you'd like, but they need one in the beginning to base the rest of the projects on, if you have them set to auto generate products.

I thought I did that tho? Let me give it another shot and see if I can get it to work.

[Light]

If you're still having trouble, lmk. I've had a few projects going on for a while now.

Although an issue I've run into is that they don't auto select all the new features so I have to manually cancel the project and add a new one to the queue with the features I want.

[Degasai]

Originally posted by Coredumping:

You have to use the design document window to add an initial design. You can queue up as many as you'd like, but they need one in the beginning to base the rest of the projects on, if you have them set to auto generate products.

We need a MUCH more detailed tutorial on this in the game. Currently, that tutorial just says "[Missing Translation]"

[Nosoc]

Originally posted by Coredumping:

You have to use the design document window to add an initial design.

I have no idea where to find the "design document window". Please explain this process in some more detail.

What I do is create a Project with all the teams and the option to only create sequels, do no tick "Original IP" and the set the slider to 150% - 200% of... I have not idea of what exactly, but I'm sure you'd be able to enlighten me.

Then I open the window to develop a new piece of software from an Original IP (let's say "RPG") to create a sequel ("RPG 2"), choose what I want in it (although I assume the point of project management is to figure this out for themselves, at least for "RPG 3" and so on) and instead of choosing "Develop", I choose "Project Management" and assign it to the leader of the project I created earlier.

After some time the message will appear, that I need to assign an intitial design to the project which in my mind, I had already done. This message will appear every few months and something that should take less than a year to develop in outstanding quality according to the stats is, after some development, due to release in four to five years with the message popping up every few months, that I need to assign an initial design.

What are the mechanics behind this? I must admit that I never waited for them to finish and took over the project for various reasons. Most importantly: have no idea what on earth would take them so long and I don't have any insight into what they are doing.

The game is great and I have spent far too many hours playing it because I do enjoy it a lot, apart from this the project management section, which I can't get my head around. I'm looking forward in aticipation for the next set of new features to be added. And of course, I'd love to learn more of how to work with project management in the way intended by the devs in the mean time.

I am, btw, running the latest Beta of the game.

[jolii]

I'm finding this confusing as well. Some games my projects start up with no problems, others they sit in queue and never start.