Skill cap for employees?

[brothoven]

Just started playing with the betas on easy so my founder immediately has good skills, but I've noticed that each skill in the employee screen shows "points available" next to them and his has zero for all of them. After hiring a high skilled employee, I saw that they had some points available next to their skills. I tried educating my founder but a warning said I needed to gain experience first, and the same happened after trying to educate my employee.

Does this mean that my founder's skills are maxed/capped right from the beginning? Or will I eventually be able to make all of his skills completely full just like in the original game?

[brothoven]

Oh and the column for skill progress is still at 0% despite working steadily for 2 years, whereas other employees are showing progression

[Personal Responsibility]

If the points are 0, then it means he is maxed out and can't get more skills (base skill will still rise though!).
Education is only possible if they progress in the skill over time, giving them education points with time, which they can use to get new skills in a subskill.

On which difficulty are you playing? Because the difficulty setting is changing a lot how much experience is gained and how many points can be given in a skill when eligable for education.

[brothoven]

I'm playing on easy since I'm still mostly just learning how to play. Because I started on easy, I had alot of stars I could assign for my founder. But I assumed I could educate them as time progressed so I dumped all of them with emphasis on design and programming.

In the older version that first played with, I educated my founder throughout their career almost constantly so they could max out everything, but it seems like you can't do that anymore?

I really wanted to max their skills out again among with a few others so I can have a super successful but small company, like I did on the earlier version. I really wish there was a mod or option available in the future where you can disable skill caps.

[Personal Responsibility]

Normally you should still have points on easy I think. If you start a new game, is it still the same?
There is still the possibility to change that with console commands.

[brothoven]

The point system is still there, but the founder cannot earn more points after the game starts. Other employees have the opportunity to be educated, but my founder cannot.

[Aperoar]

You are able to toggle point limit off with cheat codes.

[Personal Responsibility]

Basically what I wrote, but I think he didn't see it^^
In the keybinding settings, give the "console" a key to open it.
Then select the employee, open the console and enter TOGGLE_SPEC_CAP

[brothoven]

Oh, I feel dumb. I didn't know about the console lmao

[Hudi]

Originally posted by Personal Responsibility:

Basically what I wrote, but I think he didn't see it^^
In the keybinding settings, give the "console" a key to open it.
Then select the employee, open the console and enter TOGGLE_SPEC_CAP

Is this not a thing anymore?