@walking_wound That's not even listed in controls. I've been going crazy trying to get the first workshops to line up. Thank you!

Did not know buildings could even BE rotated. Googled it: click middle mouse button, use wheel to rotate (or something like that).

I am glad the guide is helpful!


Did you know you can flip the Thumpers so they are placed on the desired direction? I will have to tinker with this more but I think the described setup is final.

As for the propaganda center, I select the law but skip it for the Agitator. I dismantle it right away since there is no need to boost hope since that is only needed to prevent game over with excessive deaths.

Thumpers:
I observe that when placing GP's under coal thumpers, as per the image in the guide, only the closest row can reach the coal piles at the outside edge. I suspect in earlier patches the thumper building had to be in range, not the coal piles they produce.

Workarounds: place the thumper on the inner ring and the GP's on the outer ring. OR place two GP's on either side of one thumper (slightly less efficient).

Deaths:
I was not able to prevent a scripted death after building the propaganda center. I had it empty, then empty and disabled, and finally queued for disassembly the third. I only had a quick-save less than a day before the event (maybe 6 hours at most), so perhaps it triggers earlier than I had the ability to roll back to. (on default difficulty).

I was able to use the 24 hour shift in the early days and avoided the scripted death by letting the researchers leave for 2 hours around 1 am. Small cost to save a life (but save scumming also works).

Anyways, thanks for the information. Half hour as in the :30 in game time so that is like few seconds anyways. Also, it changes alot if theres multiple emergency shifts.

Your solution for deaths says to wait at least a half an hour. I was offering a solution that is only 2 minutes of downtime, instead of 30+, which is almost 100% uptime :)

I already explain that in the guide.

I believe I found a way to get nearly 24/7 emergency shift work without overwork deaths. Here are the steps, and obviously save scum is required:

1) Play until the death occurs and note the exact time. Let's say it was 23:46
2) Load prior save, save shortly before the noted time in step 1. Example: 23:30.
3) Resume play, and if the death occurs again at the same time as step 1, skip to step 5.
4) Sometimes the death will occur at a different time than in step 1. If that happens, note this new time of death. Repeat steps 1-4 until you get identical times of death with each save scum.
5) Reload your most recent save and pause at the minute before this event. For example, this would be a pause at 23:45.
6) Unload all workers from the facility the death occurs in for 2 minutes, then replace them. Example: remove at 23:45, replace at 23:47
7) Usually you will need to dismantle the cookhouse and then cancel to get the engineers back since the workers do briefly leave the facility.

Hello, I made a silly mistake there and yes you are correct. Any other question?

Ah a fellow Lina enjoyer