How big does this break room need to be?! :(

[Alundra (Alunny)]

I have 37 Workers but no matter how many items I put into the break room it's never enough. Every time I put new items down the coffee's vanish without anyone even going in there. I cannot keep up. Also only allowing one break room and forcing it to be this size is just crazy :(.

I added the whole two sides of vending machines and all the coffee in them vanished. That's twice the number of workers worth of coffee just gone for no reason. Is this a bug or something?

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2236508358

[mikeydsc]

No one is forcing you to use 1 break room. You can make as many as you need. Once the room is built, just add a coffee/snack machine into it to convert it to a break room. Do not add anything to room until after you convert it.

Your regeneration points can never hope to keep up with that many machines. If I saw the regen points on 59, that is low for that many machines.

[Alundra (Alunny)]

Originally posted by mikeydsc:

No one is forcing you to use 1 break room. You can make as many as you need. Once the room is built, just add a coffee/snack machine into it to convert it to a break room. Do not add anything to room until after you convert it.

I've been trying to put other stuff in there :(
I've added 4 rows of 8 game things that's 6 each and it's still not enough.

Originally posted by mikeydsc:

Your regeneration points can never hope to keep up with that many machines. If I saw the regen points on 59, that is low for that many machines.

What do you mean? Explain how many I should have and what machines.

[mikeydsc]

I wrote a section for break rooms that explains all those numbers, plus shows you I have 3 rooms going. Look in last section.
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2199711182

[Alundra (Alunny)]

That bottom number stays at 100 on the middle one no matter how much stuff I add. What's that mean? All of my rooms including break room have 100+ mood also.

[mikeydsc]

It seems 100 is the cap on how many coffee/snacks can be offered in a room. Your total is way above that.

[talonj256]

You need to include more variety of + (coffeepot) items. You only have 3 separate objects - table, vending & game. Putting multiple copies of the same item has diminishing returns.

Kill 1/2 (or more) of the benches and put in a couple of all of the other options and you'll have a lot more breakpoint regen.

Mood items also have these diminishing returns, so if you are doing the same thing with mood items elsewhere you can save money by diversifying a bit.

[Alundra (Alunny)]

There needs to be more info in the staff room to show this.

[Warming]

If you activate the mood lense, it will tell you how many coffie cups it produce a day vs how many it can store. The coffie cups is the max capasity, the coffie pots are production of coffie cups.
Every duplicate of an item halves its produciton. That includes also the mood bonus items.

[Alundra (Alunny)]

But decor matters too and it's hard to understand

[mikeydsc]

Originally posted by Warming:

If you activate the mood lense, it will tell you how many coffie cups it produce a day vs how many it can store. The coffie cups is the max capasity, the coffie pots are production of coffie cups.
Every duplicate of an item halves its produciton. That includes also the mood bonus items.

This only applies to break room decor items. The coffee and snack machine this does not hold true for.

[Warming]

Originally posted by mikeydsc:

Originally posted by Warming:

If you activate the mood lense, it will tell you how many coffie cups it produce a day vs how many it can store. The coffie cups is the max capasity, the coffie pots are production of coffie cups.
Every duplicate of an item halves its produciton. That includes also the mood bonus items.

This only applies to break room decor items. The coffee and snack machine this does not hold true for.

It does affect their production. But not their storage.
*edit* I might be wrong on them halving production, maybe its just one less each.

[Warming]

Originally posted by Alundra:

But decor matters too and it's hard to understand

It is better to have more than one break room, as the production of coffie cups for your workers to drink will be reduced with each duplicate you put in there. The first snack machine will have 4 production (4 storage) the second one 3 production (4 storage still), etc. The first bench will have 6, second 5. These dont store cups.

Moods in room affect how much rest your workers need, the more uncomfortable the room, the more breaks they take, and more coffie they drink.

[mikeydsc]

This is simply not true at all. The dots represents the total snacks. It is never just 1 dot - given time all will fill up. I will bet just about anything on this. Add up your dots and look at your total.

The guide I wrote has this covered and pollywahn (dev) gave it his blessing as being accurate.

[Warming]

Originally posted by mikeydsc:

This is simply not true at all. The dots represents the total snacks. It is never just 1 dot - given time all will fill up. I will bet just about anything on this. Add up your dots and look at your total.

The guide I wrote has this covered and pollywahn (dev) gave it his blessing as being accurate.

The dots are the STORAGE, NOT production. Open up your game, place 3 snacks next to eachother, activate the mood lens and look at the POTS and the CUPS, the CUPS stays the same the POTS goes down. This is the same as the other items in the break room: 2 benches have 2 different procution rates. But they dont store cups.

https://imgur.com/a/Ko8cQxt

[mikeydsc]

Again, I made a guide discussing this very topic and pollywahn(dev) blessed it as good.

When I buy machines I can place 5 at a time and all will be full on installation. They also refill when moved (probably bug).

The issues are folks are not keeping the regen numbers up to match the amount of coffee/snacks offered so it appears that stuff never refills.

The colors are
green - waiting on some one to claim
orange - full but someone is on way to claim it
grey - not enough regen to fill it yet.