Research Paused?

[RandomSanity]

I keep experiencing an issue where my research will randomly pause and never resume, can't figure out why. Anyone experience this or know how to fix it?

Edit: This is NOT a power issue, I have more than sufficient power. When power is the issue there will be a lightning bolt icon over the whiteboard, mine has a red research icon.

I let my game run for half an hour and they never resumed. My research is stuck at 38% and shows a paused icon. I can't resume it manually.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2441117300

Edit2: I have tons of open space in the mess hall and in the re-training chairs but my scientists refuse to use them. They also don't seem to get the brain icon that appears over other minions when their smarts are low, you have to click on them to manually see that their smarts are low. Since they refuse to use all my open re-training chairs, I had to execute them and train new scientists to get my research to resume.

I also suspect this may be due to the fact that I trained these scientists during the tutorial, before the re-training chairs were available to me. Once they became available, those scientists didn't seem to be able to use them. Once I executed them and trained new ones, they started working fine.

[burund]

I have same random issue. Last time i've got message "research paused - no power". There is 62 power, and i dont know how to resume research

[Btad]

power more power lots more power.

[RandomSanity]

Originally posted by Btad:

power more power lots more power.

It's not a power issue, power is fine. For some reason my science type minions are randomly disabled and won't research.

I have two science type minions but when I go to the training room it says minion type locked? I've done 5 research projects already so I'm not sure what happened.

[RCS]

Originally posted by RandomSanity:

I keep experiencing an issue where my research will randomly pause and never resume, can't figure out why. Anyone experience this or know how to fix it?

Right so, after 4 hours, I know the issue.

The game feels the need to remind you everytime a scientist takes a piss break.

If its not starting again, then that means you don't have enough scientists and they are all busy covering everyone else

[Evono]

more scientists when no one is researching they pause the research. they do other stuff "somewhere"

[Shamrock2211]

Originally posted by RandomSanity:

Originally posted by Btad:

power more power lots more power.

It's not a power issue, power is fine. For some reason my science type minions are randomly disabled and won't research.

I have two science type minions but when I go to the training room it says minion type locked? I've done 5 research projects already so I'm not sure what happened.

You need to click on the the scientist minion when you got to the science tab at the top (the tabs at top that say, muscle, science, disguise, etc). Once you click science tab, make sure to click on the scientist. Then you can train more. Your Science pausing because you only have 2, and when they get hungry and tired they leave, so if you don' t have more scientist then you have to wait. Also will want to build 2-3 whiteboards and have at least 5 scientists. Otherwise research super slow.

[Let's Go Brandon]

Originally posted by Btad:

power more power lots more power.

I'm givin' her all she's got.

[burund]

I have 7 scientists. They has no other tasks. They all stay at corridor and talk. When i click on them, there is no task in details. And my research is on pause. Its bug

[jmc003]

Yeah, I have 4 scientists and 4 white boards. I have all 4 scientists tagged to the Science Room in the Minion Manager. I have one scientist in the room doing research, and one scientist in the room doing nothing. When the one scientist doing research leaves, research just stops, and it doesn't continue until THAT SPECIFIC scientist comes back to their white board.

I hope to god that's a bug rather than some design that the minimum requirements for a tech (1 scientist and 1 white board) are also literally all that can be focused upon that tech.

[jmc003]

Screen shot to show 4 scientists assigned to Science, one of them Researching, the other three with no assigned job or duty.

https://i.imgur.com/lnvw4Ih.png

[RandomSanity]

Originally posted by Shamrock00769:

Originally posted by RandomSanity:

It's not a power issue, power is fine. For some reason my science type minions are randomly disabled and won't research.

I have two science type minions but when I go to the training room it says minion type locked? I've done 5 research projects already so I'm not sure what happened.

You need to click on the the scientist minion when you got to the science tab at the top (the tabs at top that say, muscle, science, disguise, etc). Once you click science tab, make sure to click on the scientist. Then you can train more. Your Science pausing because you only have 2, and when they get hungry and tired they leave, so if you don' t have more scientist then you have to wait. Also will want to build 2-3 whiteboards and have at least 5 scientists. Otherwise research super slow.

I can't make more scientists? For some reason it says minion type disabled or minion type locked and won't let me make more. This just happened randomly, no idea why.

[SIGFOR]

Weird bug, but yeah as said above, whenever a scientist walks away to boost their stats it'll pause. Im pretty sure 'high alert' also pauses research. At this point it seems like 5 scientists is all you should carry since only one researches at a time???

[jmc003]

And now I'm having the exact same issue as RandomSanity - all of my research scientists are stopped, and the research screen is telling me that I "don't have enough power" despite having seven surplus power and all of my white boards running.

https://i.imgur.com/fIJhk99.png

[Piderman]

Originally posted by SIGFOR:

Weird bug, but yeah as said above, whenever a scientist walks away to boost their stats it'll pause. Im pretty sure 'high alert' also pauses research. At this point it seems like 5 scientists is all you should carry since only one researches at a time???

Its because research Devices, at least the ones i have so far can only be used by one Scientist. Get some more Whiteboards or whatever to keep the delays as short as possible.

[Deranza]

FYI I had an issue where the science minion suddenly stopped researching, displaying a red beaker icon over the whiteboard. If you click the whiteboard, select edit then hit confirm all, it seems to kick it back into action. Just though I would leave this here for anyone with a similar issue.