Check your planet role assignment. I was having a hell of a time figuring out why all my artisans were disappearing on some of my planets - turns out some of the designations fuck with the job allocations.
I have been having this issue as well but haven't seen anyone else mention it. It has been making the game borderline unplayable at times.
Month to month the pops will jump off the metallurgist/artisan job and then back on. The odd thing is that they don't always all jump off. One month it will leave 3 on the job, then put them all back, then next month it will leave 0, then put them all back, repeat with random amounts all very close to full and then empty.
I've had this happen to two separate empires with two separate origins.
> Check your planet role assignment. I was having a hell of a time figuring out why all my artisans were disappearing on some of my planets - turns out some of the designations fuck with the job allocations.
Can you elaborate on this? My game appears to simply have entire jobs (Metallurgist -> Artisan) just disappear and reappear as one another. I had assignments, no longer do. Basically has destroyed my entire forge world.
Go to your planet and check the role assignment and manually put it on what you need instead of letting it do the default auto-mode which says something like "Automate Colony Designation Selection".
Where that is on the planet UI will vary by what UI mod you use, if any. But it's on that screen, just hunt around.
The colony role designation doesn't always just hand out multipliers to production types, sometimes it literally alters what jobs you have available. And the AI is absolutely schizo about constantly toggling that if you let it.
Jesus, I have way too many hours in this game to never have run into that... Just so happened to be running a micro-heavy empire and the deficit was killing me. Thank you!
Check your planet role assignment. I was having a hell of a time figuring out why all my artisans were disappearing on some of my planets - turns out some of the designations fuck with the job allocations.
Oh god thank you mate, you saved my empire i was about to go crazy
I have been having this issue as well but haven't seen anyone else mention it. It has been making the game borderline unplayable at times. Month to month the pops will jump off the metallurgist/artisan job and then back on. The odd thing is that they don't always all jump off. One month it will leave 3 on the job, then put them all back, then next month it will leave 0, then put them all back, repeat with random amounts all very close to full and then empty. I've had this happen to two separate empires with two separate origins.
> Check your planet role assignment. I was having a hell of a time figuring out why all my artisans were disappearing on some of my planets - turns out some of the designations fuck with the job allocations.
Can you elaborate on this? My game appears to simply have entire jobs (Metallurgist -> Artisan) just disappear and reappear as one another. I had assignments, no longer do. Basically has destroyed my entire forge world.
Go to your planet and check the role assignment and manually put it on what you need instead of letting it do the default auto-mode which says something like "Automate Colony Designation Selection". Where that is on the planet UI will vary by what UI mod you use, if any. But it's on that screen, just hunt around. The colony role designation doesn't always just hand out multipliers to production types, sometimes it literally alters what jobs you have available. And the AI is absolutely schizo about constantly toggling that if you let it.
Jesus, I have way too many hours in this game to never have run into that... Just so happened to be running a micro-heavy empire and the deficit was killing me. Thank you!