Radio repeaters

[Gromak]

Sometimes my workers are operating them but sometimes they are not being operated and they still give me the broadcast strength.. Is this intended? radio repeaters dont need workers to actually function but they sometimes go just to drain your workforce?

[Ozius]

I wondered about this myself but it appears only workers who would have nothing else to do man these stations.

Let me know if you observe anything different but from what I can tell, it's not a drain as they would be standing around, twiddling their thumbs anyway. If not, then it'll be another broken system to add to the pile.

[Gromak]

I also noticed Basic Food Counters and the healing pods are the same way. They sometimes are manned and sometimes not, but they work either way :S

[Tenshin51]

Those Repeater doesn't need to be manned maybe due to manpower limit. As long you build them you will gain a broadcast signal.

Intel array and the screen needed to be manned in order for them to work so in late game you will still need worker minion.

Don't over build too much or build too much items you will need a lot of technicians to maintain your lair. The game punished you for building too much items. You really need to managed your limited manpower in the game.

[Dux]

It's just for flavor. Workers usually have nothing to do if you aren't building anything, so they'll "work" the radio repeaters.

[ImHelping]

Originally posted by Balloon John:

I wondered about this myself but it appears only workers who would have nothing else to do man these stations.

Let me know if you observe anything different but from what I can tell, it's not a drain as they would be standing around, twiddling their thumbs anyway. If not, then it'll be another broken system to add to the pile.

It IS a drain, turns out.

Any time you start to feel the urge to declare "But what if this is... too easy? it's FREE RESOURCES!", remember that when they DO staff them (or the giant wall screens) workers drain stats as quickly as running an intel station.

I spent a while people watching to confirm this, and it can go from seemingly easy street empty slots "Oh god so many workers are exhausted all at once" with this quirk.

So yes, turns out it adds up and It is not "Nothing" or "For free". And goes a long way to explaining why so many workers kept rushing the nearby labs attached staff room and sushi bars even with every intel station set to science nerds "But it's nothing it doesn't do anything it's freeeee-wait, oh no. oh ♥♥♥♥. no it wasn't."

[YesMan]

It should the repeater itself would give broadcast strength.
But it needs workers to 'refresh' the schemes on the map.

[Ozius]

Originally posted by ImHelping:

Originally posted by Balloon John:

I wondered about this myself but it appears only workers who would have nothing else to do man these stations.

Let me know if you observe anything different but from what I can tell, it's not a drain as they would be standing around, twiddling their thumbs anyway. If not, then it'll be another broken system to add to the pile.

It IS a drain, turns out.

Any time you start to feel the urge to declare "But what if this is... too easy? it's FREE RESOURCES!", remember that when they DO staff them (or the giant wall screens) workers drain stats as quickly as running an intel station.

I spent a while people watching to confirm this, and it can go from seemingly easy street empty slots "Oh god so many workers are exhausted all at once" with this quirk.

So yes, turns out it adds up and It is not "Nothing" or "For free". And goes a long way to explaining why so many workers kept rushing the nearby labs attached staff room and sushi bars even with every intel station set to science nerds "But it's nothing it doesn't do anything it's freeeee-wait, oh no. oh ♥♥♥♥. no it wasn't."

If that's true, then it is another system that needs rework/fixing. I can understand stat drain whilst using Big Screens or Control Desks as these have a separate game function (however unnecessary with regards to heat management) but if workers are undergoing drain whilst working Radio Repeaters, this would be bad game design as it's completely useless work. I'd need to observe this to be the case so will watch some minions to see.

Good point although you could possibly tone down the sarcastic condescension :P. I never stated anything as fact, instead I invited discussion and other opinions. It makes you come across as childish instead of helpful.

Originally posted by YesMan:

It should the repeater itself would give broadcast strength.
But it needs workers to 'refresh' the schemes on the map.

Do you know this to be true or what you believe/hope it does?

[YesMan]

Originally posted by Balloon John:

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Originally posted by YesMan:

It should the repeater itself would give broadcast strength.
But it needs workers to 'refresh' the schemes on the map.

Do you know this to be true or what you believe/hope it does?

For broadcast strength without manpower input, I am sure.
For refresh, that's just my guess. I don't know if scheme just auto refresh on a timer, or when a minion go to work on repeater when the scheme expire, then the scheme refresh.

[Roberto]

They don't need to be manned, if they are being manned it means you have idle workers looking for work to do. There's a few things in the game that do nothing but drain minion stats for seemingly no reason. I doubt it's intended, just poorly put together.