Colonist selection

[Tisifoni12]

I am a bit disappointed by the mechanism for colonist selection. Having started several games I think to myself surely the selection would begin with a design as to what the skills or job role composition of the colonist group would be, for example; four geologists, three botanists, three scientists, two medics. At present you get a pretty mixed bag of colonists and may get very limited number of people in certain job roles / skill areas.

It could be the other way round; I want x geologists, get candidate list, select preferred candidates. Not necessarily a guarantee that I'd get as many I want or that there wouldn't be some candidates that didn't present issues.

 

[Tisifoni12]

When I did colonist selection I found only two geologists. Thought 'oh well' will send my two rockets back with cargo and get more colonists. After a time three of my colonists got earth sick, including one geologist. Reduced production. The earth sick colonists went back to earth I think, though I have no idea how. I used one rocket for a research trip on Mars and it came back to base; neither went back to earth, but those three colonists did.

Production stopped when my only geologist retired with the first rocket almost, but not fully loaded 28/30 high value metal.

Deleted game . . .

 

[Egodeus]

You could always hand pick colonists if needed, and then in the end just have regular colonists perform the work. They're worse at it, but they still do mine something.

 

[Gilbert95]

To get good colonists, you can hand pick (if you have the patience for such micro; I don't after the first few colonist ships arrive). If this is important to you, there are ways to increase the colonist pool (and thereby your chances of getting what you want):

• Some techs increase the pool
• Some events/discoveries have options for increasing the pool
• Some sponsors increase the pool
• Overall happy/healthy colonies gradually attract more to the pool over time

 

[CrazyJ]

I generally find hand picking colonists acceptable till i get to around a hundred colonists at which point i usually have an edu-dome setup since i like to rush that tech and get it done since it allows me to remove a source of micro which is always optimal.