Adequate, moderate, positive and best results?!

[Misanthrop]

So at the start of the game i horded people and had 30people to feed. After beeing told about the positive and best ranking i killed of all other person with moderate, adequate and poor results.
So all i had left was 15 positive. Never had a best yet either.
Since then i started rescuing people and killing of useless people again. I got to 22 currently. Somehow 2 of the initial 15 switched from positive now to adequate. I have absolutly no clue how that happened. I have +650 food +350 water and +something med. Enough beds and all that.

Is this just something random that happens or whats the problem here? I even had some field manuals invested in them so im kinda ♥♥♥♥♥♥ of about that. Im considering killing them off now too, but since i invested the field manuals im waiting with it.

Also how do i get best results? Is that after a certain amount of manuals in a positive person they switch to best?

[Boboscus]

They don't give same results in every team. That's probably the reason they went from positive to adequate. And yes, you need to give manuals to positives to get them to the best results, I don't think you can find a survivor with best results right away.

[Nick Naughty]

Isn't it moderate, positive, adequate, best.

Min 10 manuals for positive to adequate, min 18 manuals for adequate to best.

Don't know what moderate is to positive is.

[tyrone shoelaces]

Originally posted by Nick Naughty:

Isn't it moderate, positive, adequate, best.

Min 10 manuals for positive to adequate, min 18 manuals for adequate to best.

Don't know what moderate is to positive is.

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[Misanthrop]

Originally posted by Nick Naughty:

Isn't it moderate, positive, adequate, best.
Min 10 manuals for positive to adequate, min 18 manuals for adequate to best.
Don't know what moderate is to positive is.

Mhhh english aint my native language, but for me positive is better than adequate. adequate is barely good enough for me in german. Anyone got a source for adequate beeing better than positive?

1 = best
2 = positive
3 = adequate
4 = moderate
5 = poor

That would be it for me translated into german school grades. Missing the 6 tho.
Also how comes that i had like between 15 poor, moderate and adequate when i reached 30 people when adequate is only achievable due to investing manuals in a positive person? ISnt that a contradiction?

Originally posted by Boboscus:

They don't give same results in every team. That's probably the reason they went from positive to adequate. And yes, you need to give manuals to positives to get them to the best results, I don't think you can find a survivor with best results right away.

Im aware of that. They stayed in the teams they showed positive results. I then invested manuals in them and after a certain time 2 positive went to adequate.

Man this game really needs a meta guide. I appriciate the inputs tho.

[Cami]

* Main characters (Reeve, Miranda, Nicholas, Dan) become "Best" with 28 manuals
* Poorly (E) < Not Well (D) < Modest (C) < Positive (B) < Adequate (A) < Best (S)
* "Best" staff can become "Good" when ill or low on morale
* Maximun manuals is 60 (updated from 20, then 40 and now 60)

Hope this information is useful - cheers

[abcd]

Adequate is a bad translation. It pops up other places as well, such as Virgil recommending adequate sustenance.

Results are affected by motivation. If a group of people don't work well together then some of them may get penalties to their skills due to being demotivated.

[andrewww]

Originally posted by Nick Naughty:

Min 10 manuals for positive to adequate

I put 15 on a positive and he stayed positive. He's dead now.

[Dfactor]

What people above said.

Adequate is better than Positive.

If you need some extra help I wrote
https://steamcommunity.com/app/543900/discussions/0/1696046342852652259/
Some time ago.

If positive peeps turn adequate in +10 manuals or less you should keep them and max them out to +60. Of course, you should start maxing out key staff (those that are marked with yellow icons),

[Nick Naughty]

I like to know how many manuals it takes to go from modest to positive, I have one stuff that kept coming in as modest.

[Dfactor]

That would be completely variable, since modest staff can be 41~90 points.
I haven't done any precise testing, but I think each manual are below 10 points.
Out of pure guessing possibly 5 points. It would make sense from what I've seen.

Why keeping modest? I get rid of them until I finally get the desired positive.

[Nick Naughty]

It was taking too long to kill the one crew member, followed by container spam missions.

[Misanthrop]

Originally posted by Nick Naughty:

It was taking too long to kill the one crew member, followed by container spam missions.

It took like 2 days for me to kill of around 15. Just dont give em any gear, weapons or food. Send them on the 20minute missions. Send them on a mission and when they come back send them on a mission right away. Never heal them and never let them be healed. Takes like 3 or 4 missions to get into critical status with all the shebangs. Most die soon after...

[Nick Naughty]

Its 1 out 30 crew, you can't batch kill 1, then add all the random factors, 4 days later it gets rather annoying.

[Misanthrop]

dude i had to kill of 1 person yesterday with only having 1 exploration team. I just waited until all items were empty from my normal exploration crew and then switched to the person i wanna delete. Took 4 missions to be killed of. Was like 80minutes in realworld time.

U can even send them on a mission and press escape and let the game idle. The exploration team works in real world time. So just wait 20min come bcak to the game and send them off again. It really is no hustle if u get the hang once.

[Cami]

Personally I never went to extremes to kill the troops - but I've been feeding them field manuals and little by little they all are getting better
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1375977103