If this is something that's really driving you bananas, it's a rather easy thing to mod. I was having the same issue and complaint, I figured that why should my growing populace be slowly more and more retarded as my colonies grow? I don't remember reading anything about inbreeding in the manual...

ANYWAY, it's a simple fix to make your colonists not get stupider the more you send to school.

This is something that could and probably should be done as a mod, but I'll just list out where to find the data and people can do with it as they will.

Go into the root of your Col2 folder
Open up /assets/XML/
BACK UP THE FILE "GlobalDefines.xml"
Open the file that you just backed up and do a search for "EDUCATION_THRESHOLD_INCREASE"
Set the attatched iDefineIntVal from 30, to 0.

Congratulations! Your population is consistently smart again!

Are you sure you mentioned the correct label?

In my file 'EDUCATION_THRESHOLD_INCREASE' is set to 20 and 'EDUCATION_THRESHOLD' is set to 30.

Many thanks!
Will try it as soon as possible :)

I was going from memory of what the default value was for EDUCATION_THRESHOLD_INCREASE, 20/30 either way, that's the value that you'll want to change to zero.

Hadn't had my coffee yet. ;)

Thankyou, Fixed. :)

Perhaps the US education system has degenerated over time, leading to this kind of mad decision? :p

If this works you'll be my hero.

Dont think ive been so annoyed with colonization as the "schooling" issues it was just absurd to me. Well with an exception of the rare/weird trading bug you might get...

I know for sure that it works, as I've played quite a few games with this fix implimented.

First schoolhouse training - 10 turns.
Fifteenth schoolhouse training - 10 turns.

Makes things much more enjoyable. ;)

Thank god, this was so bugging me

I recommend increasing the EDUCATION_THRESHOLD to at least 60 to improve the usefulness of College and University. With 60 it will take 20 turns to trains in schoolhouse, 10 turns in college and 5 turns in university. you can train 2 colonists at the same time in a schoolhouse and three in a college and university.

Changed it but it still uses the old values :( ??

Does this change the training times of the Indian villages, or is their times based on a different entry?

Does this change the training times of the Indian villages, or is their times based on a different entry?

Different, as I understand it. Somewhat like 'native_education_threshold'

Different, as I understand it. Somewhat like 'native_education_threshold'

Ight thanks will give it a look. :goodjob: