Ho ho ho! It's been a while, but the jolly old work continues.
Santa has generously provided a gift of update for everyone, bringing a sense of teamwork and productivity this holiday season!
This update adds a new feature/concept to the game - Teams! You can now create Teams, assign your employees to them as you see fit, and then assign those teams to certain rooms in your office, thus giving you more control over how your employees make their decisions at work.
The current implementation of teams also specifically affects work related tasks of the employees. For example:
- Managers with the Self-managing perk only assign their teammates to projects
- Secretaries only assist their teammates and only manage paperwork in the rooms their teams have been assigned to
- Janitors and Handyworkers only work in the rooms where their teams have been assigned to
You're not obligated to use the teams to run your office, and if you choose not to, the employees will just behave like they've been in previous versions of the game. However, it is a useful tool in your box of making things run more efficiently once your company grows past a certain size.
What's next?
There are still some ways I can see I could improve the feature and I hope to do just that in the next few smaller updates.
For one, I'd like to add a visual indicator to let players know which rooms have been assigned to teams. At the moment you can manually sort of color-code your rooms with wallpaper and flooring, but that's probably not ideal. I'm also thinking it would be great if you'd be able to select uniforms for teams, so you can recognize who's who more easily.
I can imagine some players would also like to have control over which kitchen or toilet certain employees use, so that's another feature that I'm considering adding. And perhaps a way to make certain rooms totally off limits to employees who are not assigned to those rooms.
A bit further ahead I'm also looking to add a new campaign level and finally start properly tackling the beast of a feature that is making it possible to create and sell your own products.
Happy Holidays everyone!
Patch notes
Version 0.6.3:
- Added support for creating and managing teams of employees
- Added Teams tab to the Staff popup
- Added assigning teams to rooms