Student Intake Levels

[GamerFlair]

First off as a disclaimer, I have edited the save file I am currently playing on. I was encounting some problems with things whilst playing legit and wanted to get a full handle by just building a "super school" ground up to check it would all work fine so I didn't spend time on a real game building towards something flawed. The only thing I've done was edit the funds figure from 30000 to 3000000. I highly doubt it would have any impact but full discloser just in case.

End of year one was fine. I had enough applicants to end up with 150 freshman and 100 of each other year. End of year 2 is where I encountered an issue. I went up massively in rank to somewhere in the mid 300's. I got A ranked for all but Cleanliness which was a B.

I've got 13 students apply. My freshman intake is going to be 6. This seems... very odd, especially considering the huge intake I got the year prior. What effects the intakes?

PS: I've also found some issues with students dropping out due to food, but I believe that is already a noted issue that is being investigated.

[tristan.angeles]

Hi GameFlair, hard to say what the problem is from your description but, just 13 students apply by end of year 2, and considering that you got mostly A's is odd indeed. Just to be clear, by end of year one, so start of year 2 you had the following number of students?

freshman =150
sophomore = 100
junior = 100
senior =100

What is your rank at the end of year 1 and rank at the end of year 2? Student intake is affected by school ranking. Have you reached 500 students or more by end of year 2? We have a current student limit of 500 for optimization purposes( we are planning to raise this in the future) so we slow down student intake once the player gets to 500 or more students.

If this doesn't answer your question you can send us a bug report so we can investigate if it is a bug? Thanks for playing!

[GamerFlair]

Yes. At the start of year two I had 150/100/100/100 students. During the build time between year 2 and 3, I had only 13 students applying.

Rank was about 7xx after year one, and 353 after year two.

However, I loaded the game back up to get the proper numbers.. and I ended up with higher figures by about ten fold. I ended up with around 130 odd applicants, in similar distributions (65 freshmen with around 20-30 for each other year group.) I then, out of curiousity saved again, quit the game, reloaded, but there was not an increase the second time.

This does put me at around 500 students, so it is possible that I am encountering that deliberate slow down. I suspect I should probably file a bug report regarding the mass increase on save load though.. the number it increases too seems about right, so its likely a bug on the original display I think (especially as the bug doesn't infinately replicate on save/load, it just does it the once, which seems to be to suggest that its the true number that just displays incorrectly before the save/load)

[tristan.angeles]

Hi! Yes, if you got a result of 13 students the first time, and then 130 in the second time then this is definitely a bug. Can you send us a bug report so we can investigate further? Thanks!