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Topic created : 23.04.2010, 03:05
coffeeaddict
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I believe it's twice per game year that each city has the average salary recalculated, adjusting up or down depending on economic factors, unemployment, etc. It's a very interesting part of the game, it makes it a dynamic and global virtual economy, and I wholeheartedly approve. There's just one issue that's rather annoying.
 
When the salary is changed, all the pay rates in subdivisions stay the same - meaning, suddenly employees are more or less qualified. This means, either there are underqualified employees reducing efficiency and breaking machines, or there are overqualified employees using more top-manager ability and wasting money in pay. In order to fix this, one must go through each enterprise individually and set the salary back to the desired ratio, or one must use the big slider in the Employee Management menu to set everyone's salary at once - but inaccurately, and not taking into account training and differences in qualification.
For example, if the average salary in Lagos increases from $35 to $36 overnight, all my employees go from a 1.00 qualification to some .96. I log in, to find all enterprises slightly reduced in efficiency, which now means less production. Of course, I'm happy to give everyone the extra dollar, but I have to go around to each factory (now, many!) and slide the salary bar from $33 to $34, so I can get the precisely ~96% percent city salary that gets 1.00 employees. If I try to use the big slider in the Management menu, I can only get as close as 95% or 100%, which gives me employees that are not 1.00, therefore causing problems with inefficiency.
 
What I suggest:
Have the salary readjust normally, but each enterprise will remain at the same ratio of pay so that qualification of employees is not changed. The difference is generally not great for each update.
 
Or,
 
Keep everything the way it is, but put a manual input text box by the big Management slider for accurate usage.
 
   

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23.04.2010, 10:47
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To have all my employees trained up to above city average and 1 Q-point higher than required saves me worrying about this
 
- using the management menu to set back the salary to city average all at once when they change
 
- repairing machines usually also increases qualification requirement and i don't want to adjust the salary every time after repairing some machines
 
- with the reserve, i can upgrade by one tech level at any time without waiting or adjusting salary; just start another round of training and its all set for the next time again
 
What i personally found annoying related to salaries and workers:
- training can't be initiated / bulk applied in the management menu
-  the maximum training is only 4 weeks
-  training can't be cancelled after the update
-  can't sort the employment management list by salary levels (% of city salary)
- to put a subdiv on holiday or take it back from there  i'd always have to load the management menu 
 

23.04.2010, 10:49

Last time edited : 23.04.2010, 10:55
Mike1
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ps, coffeeaddict: did you notice that you can move that slider, after you clicked it once, with the left-arrow/right-arrow keys? That way you can adjust by single %-points 
 

23.04.2010, 15:38
coffeeaddict
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Hey, that's genius. Thanks, I'll use that. But still - It'd be nice to have an input box. For 30,000 employees, a half percent salary is... OK, not much. Still, if you produce crapperware at level 1 like I do, exactly 1.00 employees are important and any deviation up or, in particular, down decreases efficiency and therefore production. It doesn't seem like it would be too much trouble to implement, considering that exact same thing is on each subdivision's employee menu.
 
You also bring up some good points about training and vacations. Both systems I find a bit cumbersome. For example, it sends a message whenever any training is completed - useful maybe, but this can get annoying over many subdivisions because the message system is not the easiest to use.
 
Don't you suffer from top-manager problems having all your employees over-qualified? 
 

23.04.2010, 16:40
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there is one feature in this game named human resourses
 
HR specialists will help you set the salary for the company’s employees according to the qualification you have determined   My Office > Paid services, buy it for 5 points and live without worries 
 

23.04.2010, 21:40
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Mike1
ps, coffeeaddict: did you notice that you can move that slider, after you clicked it once, with the left-arrow/right-arrow keys? That way you can adjust by single %-points
Oh! Thanks very much, Mike!
I didn't know about this 
 

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