What is the point of these synthetics?

[ReaperXMA]

Well,I would really like to know, what is the point of these new synthetics, they consuming a lot of expensive resources, but they generating absolutely no income, the only thing they provide is a new look of the building,and workforce, I mean com'n, the last thing I need is more workforce, and the best part is when you upgraded your investors to the synthetic level, they permanently replace them, along with their income, so, am I missing something here or this synthetics is just a very very costly eyecandy?

[Informer]

Yes, people also complaining about that on ubisoft forum. it seems they are useless, and only destroy your economy. They generate workforce, but I never had any to low workforce.
But I have this info only from reading, and watching utube, because I do not own the latest dlc.

[Ammikaameri]

If you play on veteran difficulty, you will have some issues with workforce at some point. Mainly when you run out of space to build.

[ReaperXMA]

Originally posted by Ammikaameri:

If you play on veteran difficulty, you will have some issues with workforce at some point. Mainly when you run out of space to build.

I am play on veteran difficulty, and never had workforce issue(even if I have, that is module for that), about the building space, with module from tundra, I dont think thats gonna be a problem.

[JaaxXii]

Originally posted by ReaperXMA:

Originally posted by Ammikaameri:

If you play on veteran difficulty, you will have some issues with workforce at some point. Mainly when you run out of space to build.

I am play on veteran difficulty, and never had workforce issue(even if I have, that is module for that), about the building space, with module from tundra, I dont think thats gonna be a problem.

I am playing on verteran as well (level 150) with 2.2M pop - can to reload backup game as i went into negative 5000 fruit drinks, and negative hundreds on sutis and other things. Had no space to build the buildings needed and my economy started to crash - might start again at some point

[Veny]

So, after getting synths i think i know whats their point:
- Plenty of time wasted for getting rare resource (upgrading one house takes 10 graphene, magnetite and petrochems)
- population - synths are end-game population. I have like 1M per hour (on the hardest difficulty - veteran it is, right?) and synths are best way how to increase population and corporation level (which mean more account and storage capacity).
Anyway i dont understand why i am not getting rare resources per corp level anymore. Did they remove it, or we are getting them only until certain corp level?

[Droidhacker]

No i am pretty sure they removed it, which is why the 190+ rare resources and the million buck pricetag to settle new islands is just insult upon idiocy.

[CursedPanther]

I've started a new play through for the DLC so I haven't reached that point yet. Does synthetics upgrade replaces your entire T4 population, which leads to an instant economic meltdown as mentioned or can you upgrade it per household like the rest?

[ReaperXMA]

Originally posted by CursedPanther:

I've started a new play through for the DLC so I haven't reached that point yet. Does synthetics upgrade replaces your entire T4 population, which leads to an instant economic meltdown as mentioned or can you upgrade it per household like the rest?

If you choose automatically upgrade option for your residents, they will replaces your T4 population( only the big ones, the small one will remain as T4), but still, they will cost you a lot of income, and yes, you can control which house should be upgrade to T5, just like the rest~

[CursedPanther]

Originally posted by ReaperXMA:

Originally posted by CursedPanther:

I've started a new play through for the DLC so I haven't reached that point yet. Does synthetics upgrade replaces your entire T4 population, which leads to an instant economic meltdown as mentioned or can you upgrade it per household like the rest?

If you choose automatically upgrade option for your residents, they will replaces your T4 population( only the big ones, the small one will remain as T4), but still, they will cost you a lot of income, and yes, you can control which house should be upgrade to T5, just like the rest~

That's a relieve. You'll likely crash your economic by mass upgrading T3 to T4 without proper backup as well so I always upgrade manually.

I assume the zero income isn't a bug of some kind and T5 is basically there to provide workforce, and serves as a monument of you being capable of sustaining it?

[ReaperXMA]

Originally posted by CursedPanther:

Originally posted by ReaperXMA:

If you choose automatically upgrade option for your residents, they will replaces your T4 population( only the big ones, the small one will remain as T4), but still, they will cost you a lot of income, and yes, you can control which house should be upgrade to T5, just like the rest~

That's a relieve. You'll likely crash your economic by mass upgrading T3 to T4 without proper backup as well so I always upgrade manually.

I assume the zero income isn't a bug of some kind and T5 is basically there to provide workforce, and a monument of you being capable of sustaining it?

Well,it's not bug, the T5 not only provide workforce, they also only consume T4 resources, that means when you upgrad to T5,you gonna have a lot of redundant T1-T3 resources on your hand~

[Steely]

They only provide FAKE workforce, if you check your numbers when you upgrade, your workforce go actualy down, so it only increase population and screw your work force. Acording the story they should provide work force but the numbers tell something else. (bug maybe?)
When you hit the upgrade button the work force drops and then go up a litle and at the end you have less as before the upgrading.

[CursedPanther]

Originally posted by Steely:

They only provide FAKE workforce, if you check your numbers when you upgrade, your workforce go actualy down, so it only increase population and screw your work force. Acording the story they should provide work force but the numbers tell something else. (bug maybe?)
When you hit the upgrade button the work force drops and then go up a litle and at the end you have less as before the upgrading.

Is that becuz they replace the T4 population, but not with the same exact amount?

[Sarda]

From what I can see the only use for Synthetics is maxing out Trade Floors, even a TF that's wasteing like 1/2 its space with overlaping other TFs can now easily max out with a few Synth homes. Far as the economic hit; You'll basically break even in the end maxing them all out because you can get rid of all the T1+T2 homes (that pay nearly nothing anyway) that you couldn't before and you'll basically only have Executives, Investors and Synths now. The important thing is you only upgrade houses to Synths that aren't around maxed out TFs.

[NeuNeu89]

By now, i'm at 2million Synths, and my economy is still running. Had to sell my own auctions btw, but as soon as i got the 4 million achievement, i'll get rid of them in my cities, and use them on production sectors only.

[RedArcus]

I think too, they add T5 to achieve the higher corpoarate levels too end 300LV but i never played so far. I never game around corp lv 60 because of my old laptop I5 and only 1 gb grahpic card have problems with a lot more people ;s