Hey

Last night i was playing mission 10 where you have to build a grading school very early on and set it to "spelling bees".
I did that and then regularily checked for graduates.

By the end of game I had 2! The two graduates graduated rather early and then the school stopped to kick out the little ones completely.
Most of the time i had two teachers and children filling up all slots.

My oldest child was 34.

What went wrong?

Best, PF

Your oldest child was 34?

Is that a bug or can any one of any age go to grade school?

(24-02-2012 04:04 PM)PinkFrog Wrote:  ... i was playing mission 10 ... By the end of game I had 2 [graduates]! ... Most of the time i had two teachers and children filling up all slots.

My oldest child was 34.

...

If you can repeat that several times and send the saved game files to Kalypso support, they may have to admit that they have a BUG in how children become adults.

I have never seen it myself, But have heard one other person mention it. I have to think it is a pretty rare bug, that is hard to repeat.


that said.. the best way to use grade schools is you really need a lot of them. typically i have 5-8 on an island of 500 600-700 people.. I have had as many as 12-15 on larger islands.

I must say they really do work though. Atleast a few of the settings i have used. Spelling be is Huge for geting peoples intelligence up for those later high end jobs. And the best part is if you have been growing through births, that makes your late game really smooth as everyone wants to goto collage and get good jobs.

the other one i find great, is the re-education. This one turns your tropicans so docile they wouldnt protest if they lived in a garbage dump.


the other setting, for feild trips i havent used at all, it gives a random skill on graduation, But i don't know if that makes the tropican more apt to work at that job or not. If soo it would be great, if not it seems kinda pointless, Unless you are having a hard time filling unskilled worker jobs, then i would choose this option.

If you are having trouble getting people to fill high end jobs, swap to the final mode which lets anyone goto school and gradute.

It may have been me.... I had a similar problem here... http://forum.kalypsomedia.com/showthread.php?tid=13034

Ok, interesting.

I'll try to reproduce this issue.
My first idea is tabbing out of the game. Maybe the program doesn't have a proper check when it is re-initialized after tabbing back.

Cheers!

(25-02-2012 02:34 PM)PinkFrog Wrote:  Ok, interesting.

I'll try to reproduce this issue.
My first idea is tabbing out of the game. Maybe the program doesn't have a proper check when it is re-initialized after tabbing back.

Cheers!

I dought it is that, as i have tabbed out more times than i can count, and never noticed this bug..

since i started really playing with grade schools. i have found a few things to get graduation rate up..

First.. pay those grade school teachers enough money so it is the best qaulity job on the island. that way they never want to leave. Make sure you have enough slots open so you can atleast fire one teacher.. that way you can upgrade to new younger teachers with high lvl of experiance so you dont loose students when one dies.


Can you think of anything you might have done to get the bug to happen? did you try firing the teachers to see if all the students left school and corrected the bug?