game-dev-tycoon
I have sometimes come across situations where I had to fire an employee to hire a new one with better tech or design ratings and more research/speed points. However, since the earlier employee had been with the company for quite a while, the level of the employee was higher than the one I hired (say, level 6 against level 4).
Are there any specific weights given to the employee levels and design/tech ratings? If yes, which of them is more important?
(Assuming budget factor to be same.)
Seemingly not - for testing I did the following;
Got to development stage 3 for my new game, which presents a screen as below to assign programmers to World Design, Graphics, and Sound:
As you can see above, I have assigned employees to each area and the only one outstanding currently is Graphics - James E. Garmack. Garmack has the lowest work speed of all three of my employees, so I then moved everybody around a bit without changing any other settings on the screen:
As you can see, the amount of work that will be completed doesn't change. For reference, these are the stats of my employees:
1) If you over-work them you don't get a bonus XP modifier. That xp affects your technology so if you have a lot of research points and want to progress as fast as possible, you need the XP bonus.
2) It drains a lot of extra stamina. For example: Employee just came back from vacation, should last a long time before the next vacation, if you force 200% out of him / her, the stamina would start depleting almost right then and there. You also lose the bonus XP (before publishing the game)
If I find anything else, I'll edit.
Best Answer
According to the wiki and the data I see in the save file, employee level is most definitely a factor -- their productive output is multiplied by 0.2 * employee level.
So a level 2 employee with the same tech/design stats as a level 4 employee will only produce half as many points.