Is this mechanism working with an accumulation of 'experience points' or is it a flat random chance per turn? Because if that's the first way, you should really not move a free colonist from a lumbermill, if he is there since 20+ turns. If that's the second way, you can move them relatively freely and that's very different! Thanks.
I believe it is the latter (once the required number of turns have passed). Moving the colonist around inside one turn doesn't seem to matter but if he is still in a new profession by the time you start a new turn all previous learning is lost.
Experience points. You're right about the latter. I don't move my experienced free colonists and generally keep the city labor allocation as "locked".
Exactly. Or at least just move them to the same Profession. If you change their profession "Learning by Doing" starts from 0 again. My LbD algorithm is a bit "complicated" to explain. (It has both linear and exponential components that influence a random.) But it works "experience like" with thresholds and increasing chances the longer a Colonist works in the same Profession. By the way: RaR mod has been finished. The follow up project is now We the People.
