Automated Assignment for Colony Governors
Assignment of colony governors has always been manual, due to the difficulty in knowing a players intentions for a given colony. For v1.12, I’ve added the option for players to specify what type of commander they need for a colony and then let auto-assignment handle the selection. A new Governor tab on the economics window shows details of the current colony governor and provides options for selected. The options work as follows:
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Automated Assignment Checkbox: Toggles automated assignment for the specific colony, which has two effects. Firstly, if no governor is assigned, the colony will undergo automated assignment checks during the construction phase. Secondly, if the current governor increases their admin rating, they will be unassigned. They may also be immediately reassigned, but this allows the auto-assignment code to check for higher priority assignments for that administrator first.
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Colony Importance: When automated assignment takes place, colonies are checked in descending order of importance.
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Required Bonus: A potential governor must have this bonus to be assigned to the colony.
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Secondary/Tertiary Bonus: Governors with the Required Bonus are ranked based on descending value of the required bonus, then by descending value of the secondary bonus, then by descending value of the tertiary bonus. The secondary and tertiary bonuses are not required for an administrator to be assigned. They are used for ranking purposes only.
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Assign Colony Governor: Clicking this button removes the current governor and then assigns the highest ranked available candidate, which may result in re-assignment of the current governor.
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Assign Governor Vacancies: Checks every colony without a governor in descending order of importance and and assigns the best candidate. This is effectively a manual triggering of the construction phase auto-assignment.
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Reassign All Colony Governors: Removes all existing governors then checks every colony in descending order of importance and and assigns the best candidate to each.
I think that manual assignment will still be the best option for important colonies, but the above should significantly reduce micromanagement in governor assignment.
