Attributes in new workers

[Knedi]

I would like to see the option to control what personalities and attributes pop up more in new workers. That way, theres not so many negative nancies running around. Perhaps this could be an option in Eras?

[thadian]

I think they are in because without this, everyone would have 100% locker room morale and there would never be a negative incident. The game is chock full of great dudes, and it needs a few more jerks, so the new debuts achieve that.

 

It also forces you to say "I really want a guy who can both do angles AND matches but... do I want an agitator? What's my locker room like? Yeah, I can handle a few agitators."

 

I think if someone young has high skills, there's a good chance they're one of "those types" for a few years before they calm down, especially if they're aged between 18-24. Or if someone has an attribute like A Marketing Dream, Creative Dynamo, they might be an inch extra jerky and have an ego.

 

Now, I agree with you - too many of the new dojo graduates are bad personality dorks. If I like their pic and name, I sign them, then fix their attribute problems and touch up their skills in the editor (I don't cheat them up in skills, but I bump up their Safety and Consistency to minimum 60).

[Knedi]

I can see what you mean and agree with you, however for the system of "growing up" to work there'd have to be something like negative personalities having a high chance of changing at the maturity age. I don't know if something like that could be coded in at this point, but I'd highly doubt it. Also, unless I'm just unlucky, I find that a very large majority of the dojo grads have bad personalities, like 90% of them, which maybe was okay in the 80s, but in todays world not so much. Especially after Speaking Out and such, I cant see many Sleazys or Horndogs or Egomaniacs or Scumbags or Bullies etc. making their way into the bigger companies I've suggested before a Hiring Rule to make it so AI wont hire certain personalities, which could also be a fix to this, but I don't think that's likely either.

[thadian]

I can see what you mean and agree with you, however for the system of "growing up" to work there'd have to be something like negative personalities having a high chance of changing at the maturity age. I don't know if something like that could be coded in at this point, but I'd highly doubt it. Also, unless I'm just unlucky, I find that a very large majority of the dojo grads have bad personalities, like 90% of them, which maybe was okay in the 80s, but in todays world not so much. Especially after Speaking Out and such, I cant see many Sleazys or Horndogs or Egomaniacs or Scumbags or Bullies etc. making their way into the bigger companies

 

I've suggested before a Hiring Rule to make it so AI wont hire certain personalities, which could also be a fix to this, but I don't think that's likely either.

 

I do know that personalities can change, but I haven't seen it happen very often. I would like characters to have a few hallmark ages where traits change. 24, 32, and 40 seem like good ages to target.

 

I would love to see the ability to select individual attributes for Hiring Bias. I agree it's horrible when an AI company or child company signs a bunch of bums who's attributes cause negative relationships and even spread other negative attributes around like the plague.

 

I would think it would be easy to select a few attributes. I think the real reason we won't see this fix is two-fold: on one hand, if we choose too many hiring biases, the companies just won't hire anyone. And once in a while a Sumbag or Bully is also the best guy/gal you can get otherwise. It's okay to take this jerk. It's not quite okay when a company becomes loaded with 8-12 of them. The other reason would be that we can already change the unwanted attribute in the in-game editor. If I remember TEW2016 right, there was a "No Toxic Influence" bias of some kind. In this game, there are a few really bad personality traits that aren't classified such, so when you search for "not negative influences", you will find some of those traits.