Multiple leads in one team... any use?

[Hsuzy]

As the title suggests, is there any benefit to having more than one lead in a team?

I also noticed that leads get a happiness bonus from 'own office' (I tend to give them individual rooms in a larger office), but others who were also given a room without the title didn't get the boost. WAD?

[Awesomely Oscillating Ocelot]

You can't have more than one lead in a team.

If you set a second individual to be the lead, the new team leader immediately redesignates the role of the former team leader to their strongest skillset (IE the game applies autorole logic to the old team leader).

Only team leaders care about having their own office. I think this is as it would (generally) be (seen to be) detrimental to put the entire team in separate offices as it would make collaboration more awkward.

[Hsuzy]

Oh ok got it, thanks man. I will probably still give the senior employees their own offices for RP purposes, though I wish there was some benefit to pimping out the office so.

[Awesomely Oscillating Ocelot]

There may well be in the future, if the social improvements in the latest test build are anything to go by!

Although really there is right now. My best-ever company in vanilla had just 3 teams with all the exact same personalities all the way through, cross-trained in all areas to max, and I could put out 8-10 products a year including two OSes (console and PC). But only because they had well-designed and very pretty offices, and therefore were in-universe "happy".

If you don't bother with the "prettifying" stuff (clocks, paintings, plants, special lighting) then you'll rarely see much better than 200% effectiveness, but I've seen a lead flickering constantly between 300-something and 400%.

[Dramoth]

If you have a project manager, you can have several teams working under that project manager for the project. Each team would have a lead in it that answers to the PM. That way you could set up individual teams based on the strong points of the people in the team (i.e. a programming team that is strong in 2D development and design team that's strong in Audio design). This will reduce the number of people you have to hire, because you can move the teams between projects at will.

The team leader of the 2D development team will assign programmers to work on specific projects under the guidance of the Project manager.

But that would end up bringing in another levels of management, the line manager.