Education...

[Gorgo]

I'll start with a frank admission - I don't really understand the education system, so any help there would be appreciated.

But what I have noticed is the insane amount of time it takes to train colonists (and then having to top up with Gold anyway for some professions). From a personal viewpoint, one of the single most satisfying things I could do in the original Col was train my Petty Criminals to be Elder Statesmen! I used to love doing that, and it always struck me as slightly ironic. I also liked the way you had to train PCs and Indentured Servants up to Free Colonist level before they were actually any good for much. An acceptable strategy was to run a meritocratic type of system based on efficiency - having specialists in all the right places, training soldiers for the end game - this appealed to my borderline OCD tendencies, as well as being really satisfying in terms of micromanagement.

So away from my waffle, I suppose my big two questions are:

1) How does education work?
2) Is there a way of simulating the original style via maybe a mod or a simple (must be simple - I'm a technophobe) edit to one of the ini files?

Thanks in advance, I guess this is more of a general question than anything about strategy or tactics, but I was unsure of where to post.

 

[Mutineer]

Well it's broken.

You put some one who can be educated in school and they will finish it in time. At time of finish you will asked for money (If you have) and offer choise from profeccions that are in city. If proffeccian were not presented full time student was learning amount of money increased. Emount of time depend of amound of education you produce and scales with each person you educate very very fast. so, do not hope to educate more then may be 6 elder statesment. All education sclaes, so you indian willage education suddenly takes for ever to.

 

[Refar]

However Indian and Domestic education scale separately.
So you can get the ~6 ressource producers from indian villages in addition (yeah ) to the ~6 Specialists you train in your schools...