What's with this games AI?

[Wilde Starr]

I have 8 different tasks from 3 different orders available, and 2 of each workstation yet only 1 of my 4 workers are actually working. I triple checked and I can confirm that its just the workers not wanting to do anything. Why?

[mikeydsc]

Happiness is low - bottleneck of a machine - no idea with scarce info.

[Wilde Starr]

Originally posted by mikeydsc:

Happiness is low - bottleneck of a machine - no idea with scarce info.

I got them at like 80% happiness and I got 2 of each machine, yet only 1 machine is in use in the entire building

[mikeydsc]

Are you assigning the jobs directly to workbench or are you using the billboards and both work benches are associated properly?

[Wilde Starr]

Originally posted by mikeydsc:

Are you assigning the jobs directly to workbench or are you using the billboards and both work benches are associated properly?

I assigned the jobs to billboards at first, I have 1 billboard for each type of machine and when I checked the machines the jobs were split about 50 50, but still only 1 worker would work at a time. I tried assigning jobs manually to each workbench, didn't work. Have tried reinstalling and deleting my save and starting a new game, that didn't work either.

[mikeydsc]

How big are your rooms? There is no % happiness rating.

Happiness is the house/heart icon in upper right. We on the same page there? If not this is the one I am referring to.

If you are early game, roughly 30ish rating per room is ok. Mid to late game, you are going to need those ratings to be minimum of 50 (as your workers get more exp/stars, they want better environment). Once I have most research done, my rooms will be at least 100. Your storage rooms also need to be 30 bare minimum, any long hallways? Add decor to it. Basically any room the worker can enter or walk through you need decor.

The reason my decor is so high is because once those workers start giving you thumbs up, thats ok, you want to see them giving you a double thumbs up and they will work a long time before a break. Decor is where its at.


Next would be how the blueprint is assigned billboards and numbers of stations. Those stations also need the zones to be big enough to store a couple orders worth of goods.

I did write a pretty detailed explanation of the game in the guides section. Have a look and see if anything can help you.

[Jythier]

Did you change the priority on any of your jobs? Sometimes if you do that, they will be trying to work on that job when there is still old job in the system. If that job is waiting for parts, then things just won't move because you're making parts for the newly prioritized job instead of the job it needs to finish.