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Sorry for the late reply, you might have found the answer yourself already but: The product needs for how many people in which roles need to work on the product are totals. This means that it counts all designers, artist and programmers in the team or teams that you assign to work on the product. When creating a product I believe it also shows up when you select or deselect teams to work on it (I do not think it shows up when you change that when the project is already running). So if you want to work with day/night shifts or any shifts for that matter you will still need to keep the total amount in mind when assigning teams. As a sidenote: this can happen for total amount but also if you overstack one particular role, for example: the product needs 2 artist, 2 designers and 5 programmers as a recommendation and you select 2 artists, 2 designers, but 10 programmers, you will still be slowed down due to the fact you have too many programmers. I believe in the product creation screen they will even warn you for this by making the text red when you have too many people working on it. Hope that helps!

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Hi, thank you for the suggestion! Sadly, I have not been able to upload new videos for quite a long time now.. but the plan is still there to start uploading again when some personal issues are resolved. Fun fact by the way: I already own Sky Haven, because I bought it at one point because I had exactly the same idea as you: that me and the community would like the game ;)

It sure is :D

Thank you for the kind words! :)

Very happy to hear that the video helped you! The game can be a bit frustrating sometimes, but what I found is that a lot of people do not dare to just try things out and see what happens. I mentioned this in a lot of my SI videos, so dare to try and analyze! :) It's part of the fun!

Hi, sorry for the delayed response. I looked into your question and the only thing I can come up with for now is that maybe the character you want to select as a project lead does not have the required skillset to be able to do so. However, I must be honest here: I have not played the game sufficiently with the updates reagarding executive leads etc. I decided to share your question (anonymously) in our Discord server to see what the other people think about it. If they come up with a good answer I will share it with you here as well :) Or you could join the Discord server (link in description of video) if you want to be part of that discussion yourself. Either way, if anything interesting comes out of it, I will let you know! Hope that helps for now!

One of our Discord members also said that you cannot select a new lead before deselecting the current one. The actual post: "I think this could be that another team member is already a lead with an exclusive lead role. This means that within that team, that employee is the only one which can be the lead". It might be worth checking that out as well.

It seems like they either do not have the correct programming skills to work on those ports or the team is not assigned to the correct project?

@@Hipbone They are all completely max in the skill they should be working in

@@redwingdevil707 Did you also check if the team is part of the correct project?

@@Hipbone Yes, I did

@@redwingdevil707 Hmm then it seems something is wrong. However, it is hard to say anything useful without being able to see the problems, but I do not know anything else at the moment that might cause this.

Don't forget, i really really don't get research! Can you maybe make a video about it? I've read the tutorial multiple times but i still don't get it.

@@SKH116 Glad to hear you learned from these videos and are enjoying the game! I am not really a tutorial channel, these were made as an exception of some sort. I might do more in the future when I can get back to regular recording, but for now sadly they won't be there soon. During my playthroughs of the game I also tend to explain a lot of why I am doing certain things, so you could also look there for more information. Or you could join the Discord server (link in the description of the videos) where there are a lot of people that like this game and know a lot about it (I'm quite certain most know more about the game than me xD) You are always welcome to ask questions there or just have some fun :)

@@Hipbone im currently watching s10. I really enjoy watching and im learning a lot. 😁

@@SKH116 I'm really glad you like it!

I of course can't see your game, but my guess is that those 50 people are not all skilled in what they need to do. It's a classic thing that real life companies also do: development is too slow? Let's throw more money and people at it, which in return makes it even slower in most cases. I cannot say for sure this is the case for you of course, but at least it's a general tip in the right direction. It's better to have a smaller team that is skilled in the right areas than to have a big team that is too broadly skilled. So, regarding your team: I link the word iterations in your comment to design. How many of those 50 people are actually good designers? And of those people, how many are skilled in the correct areas? It could very well be that a lot of people are "helping" with design, whilst they are bad at it. That slows down the project. The other thing that probably is happening is that not all the good designers have the correct skills. For instance: if you selected a feature that needs a designer to have 3 stars in System, than only the designers that have 3 stars in System design will actually work on that part. So you could set 50 people to work on it, but effectively maybe only 2 people are doing that part, which of course, slows down the project. Besides that, Operating Systems take a long time to develop and design anyway, especially if you select quite a few features, which could very well be the case for you since you are in 1998 (assuming you started in 1980). But like I always say: don't sweat too much about time. It's better to release a very good product and take a year (or even a few years) longer, than to release a mediocre product a year faster. I hope these pointers help you out, but if you feel you need more help you can always join the Discord (link in description) and ask there. Besides myself there are other experienced players who can help you and you can also post screenshots there if you feel that would help!

@@Hipbone Yes thank you for the information. Being my 5th game but the first where I made it to the late 90s I haven't gone through a specialized stage. I figured it out about a few hours after I made this post. I was still on work 24/7 and throw more people at it to solve not knowing wtf is going on. I would make 15 person teams with a few of everything and just churn out products. I'd get lucky every 5th to 10th would be a hit and pay for my next expansion. Early game is forgiving if you just pump products. I also learned about support and marketing contracts so these huge teams paid for themselves lowering my overhead. Then digital distribution and I was getting rich while making duds. But as you said things started to get way more complex. I'd have 200 people on a project and they would take years even with 10 setting. So I started splitting people in teams like AM DESIGN 2D and paying attention to the pie charts. Using leaders to auto hire teams and it massively improved my game. I went from 20 products every year with 2 being good too 3 products a year with them all sucking too 12 products a year all 8.5 or better. I had to turn the difficulty up. I'm still running into projects that take forever. I wish there was a point system we could see so I could plan better. Now I need to learn hardware and research along with taking over companies and I might be able to win a game

@@frozenbuckeye6700 Sounds like an awesome journey and that is exactly what I like about this game. You can create your own adventure basically. Good job on finding your own way through it and for sticking with what works and changing what doesn't. Most people who ask for advice tried 1 thing and never something else, either because they were too afraid to change things up or because they were holding on to a strategy that once worked but not anymore. Being able to adapt is key in this game and that is what makes it awesome in my opinion. Good to hear you were able to do so and it sounds like you had a good time doing it too! :)

@@Hipbone Sure did. Now I'm working on figuring out hardware then how to build my own building. I still need to finish this play through but I'm also looking forward to my next pay through so I can try some different things.

@@frozenbuckeye6700 Sometimes I'm jealous of new players of the game, since they have so much to discover and try out still haha :) It sounds amazing that you are making full use of that!

Good to hear it still works :)

Haha at least you got it! :) Not everyone likes cheesing is like this, but at least there is the option!

Haha no problem!

Very true!

Night shift and Morning

Sorry, I don't have a video on that and tutorials are also not really my thing. I do explain my thoughts a lot during gameplay videos as well. I'm not sure if marketing is more difficult in Beta 1, but it seems to me that it is always about timing and momentum. Start marketing too early and you will be in a downward spiral with fan interest when you are ready to release. Start too late and you might miss out on potential fans. There is also not one general tactic to it imo, since it revolves around a few things. Do you already have a fanbase in that sector? How good is the product? What are the product timelines? Is it a sequel or not? How capable is your development team (and therefore how certain are you that the product will be good enough and up to your standards)? And of course, how capable is your marketing team? I honestly use marketing as just a tool to gain bonuses in sales or fans, but I do not see it as a prerequisite to be successfull in the game. I'm 100% sure you can make a huge profit in the game without ever touching marketing, but of course doing good marketing will increate that profit and your fanbase quicker. Hopefully that helps a little bit, but like I always say: a lot of the fun in SI (I think at least) is in figuring things out for yourself as well and the game does a good job in making multiple options plausible. So if you're not sure about something, save the game in a different save file and just try it out, see what happens ;)

@@Hipbone Thanks. I'm just trying to do a better job of getting started, since my first product barely sells despite having Great quality in Beta 1.

@@Trifler500 It happens yes. Just keep making the great products and they will start selling ;) what difficulty are you playing on? That can have a big effect as well

@@Hipbone Just easy for now

@@Trifler500 Then I would not worry ;) just continue with the great products and before too long you will make huge profits!

No problem!

Good to hear :)

Thanks for the comment. I do see where you're coming from, in later versions of the game your statement is definitely true. The game linking age to salary/skill is not my preferred way either and its actually something I talked about before in other videos. Like yourself, I like to find those "gems" and turn them into highly skilled employees and develop my company that way. The game is changing that system in recent updates though to bring back a little of that "gem" developing. In my opinion it could do with a lot more changes stil, but it is getting a bit better.

@@Hipbone yea true and I start play the game in V11. I also think the game will be better down the road.

@@billjohansson88 I think it will be better indeed.

Thanks, I'm glad you like it!