Educated colonist must choose profession NOW!

[ese-aSH]

Hi,

A little annoying thing I noticed : if a colonist completes its education, you are prompted to choose its new profession.
Yet, since some profession requires gold, you might not be able to promote him to the expected profession. It seemed to me that it is impossible to say 'well wait some turns until I get gold so you promote to what I want', you have to choose right now.

I was a little upset to be forced to get a fisherman expert when I was looking for elder stateman...

 

[derflensburger]

It's not only about the gold you might not have.

It's also about not neccessarily knowing what I need. So I#d rather want to look around my colonies to decide what I need.

 

[marciv]

Hi,

A little annoying thing I noticed : if a colonist completes its education, you are prompted to choose its new profession.
Yet, since some profession requires gold, you might not be able to promote him to the expected profession. It seemed to me that it is impossible to say 'well wait some turns until I get gold so you promote to what I want', you have to choose right now.

I was a little upset to be forced to get a fisherman expert when I was looking for elder stateman...

I didn't realize this either, however when you think about it you wouldn't send your kids to University without any financial assistance would you.

 

[Polobo]

It would be nicer to pay up-front as opposed to in-arrears; the game would have to force you to keep the educator in the settlement the whole time as well though.

 

[ese-aSH]

I didn't realize this either, however when you think about it you wouldn't send your kids to University without any financial assistance would you.

correct, but when it takes 10 turns (or more ) to educate a colon, I wont really take care of my gold. this is annoying.

polobo solution is good : pay at start and the problem is solved (and if you choose to remove the student for any reason you loose gold, thats logical).