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Training Citizens Under 1.60.388302

Published on Saturday, June 10, 2023 By PaulLach In Galactic Civilizations IV

I don't know if this is new under 1.60.388302 or if I just noticed it now, but it now takes 5 Control to train a citizen.  The game assigns a skill to each citizen as they are created and I frequently want to train them to a different skill.  I have been able to do this quite freely in the past, but today I was not able to train a citizen and I realized that the reason was that I was out of Control (literally, not figuratively!).

Is this something new under 1.60.388302?

If it is, I strongly suggest that you either get rid of it or reduce the cost to 1 or 2 control.  The reasons for my suggestion are:

  1. You generally only earn 2 Control per turn meaning, if you did nothing else that requires Control, you would only be able to train 1 citizen per month.
  2. The game assigns skills to new citizens and generally does a very poor job of it given the point values the citizen has for Intelligence, Social, Diligence, and Resolve.  This means players probably will want to train more than 1 citizen per month.

I did not figure out that training citizens required Control until I completely used up all of my control and was unable to train a citizen.  The screen snapshot below shows what it looked like.