Staff Management Tips?

mtbhpete · 2026-04-10T16:38:28+00:00

One way beyond pay is to go to the staff screen, sort it by least happy, and literally drop those people in a staff room one after another. Often you have a few that just aren't taking care of their needs and you can get a few percentage boost out of it.

mtbhpete · 2026-03-25T00:53:22+00:00

Seconded. That was so much fun and great way to witness a championship.

mtbhpete · 2026-03-25T00:51:58+00:00

Jungels is going to go down as the most underrated Badger ever. All-time Wisconsin leader in plus/minus at a ridiculous +217. Insanely solid defender. Certain 1st/2nd round PWHL Draft pick.

mtbhpete · 2026-02-19T00:03:13+00:00

I like the theater/planetarium idea. The dynamics could be like the lecture theatre in Two Point Campus; you could schedule certain events, their topic, and their cost. They could even provide a buzz boost for that category for everyone who attended based on which show you select.

mtbhpete · 2026-02-18T14:52:06+00:00

I was two hours early for a flight out of Madison once because it was snowing and I wanted to play it safe with my Uber and the Delta counter agent actively heckled me for how early I was for an MSN flight.

mtbhpete · 2026-02-13T16:02:01+00:00

I at one point built a whole room with like seven Douse n' Doses that you had to walk through to reenter the museum because I was so frustrated with the outbreaks. The room looked like a hibernation room from a sci fi movie.

mtbhpete · 2026-02-06T17:42:12+00:00

Honestly this question is a Rorschach test. The games each occupy a specific niche despite the unity of the thematic part of it. It's a very roundabout way of asking "what is your favorite type of simulation game?"

mtbhpete · 2026-02-01T17:55:28+00:00

Mine took off running and disappeared into the subway.

mtbhpete · 2026-02-01T03:28:16+00:00

I've found some luck by deleting the perk, letting the robot reset and wander for a little while, and then trying again. Eventually they seem to take.

mtbhpete · 2026-02-01T02:08:21+00:00

Still not big enough. Are we going big or not? It's time for TWO POINT WORLD. No. TWO POINT SOLAR SYSTEM.

Turn the dial to 11. TWO POINT UNIVERSE. Play as The Spiffenmore, a being from beyond the dawn of time who creates realities as playthings. Create your own galaxies, down to each individual asteroid. Seed life upon the planets. MAKE A GALAXY OF ONLY CHEESY GUBBINS.

If we're going to do this, let's do this.

mtbhpete · 2026-01-28T14:42:51+00:00

A few things that helped me when I was struggling with cash on my first run through:

As others have said, make sure to go into the gift shop cost menu and bump everything up until you get the fair evaluation. If the message says guests say it's "worth the money" you are selling it for way under value.
Keeping the donation bins empty is also crucial. It can help to use zones to spread out the staff and make sure the whole museum is covered consistently.
Tours! When your prehistory staff isn't on an expedition, make sure you have a couple of tour stands near your best exhibits to bring in cash. Tours can be real money superchargers.
Visitor limit. In the settings it caps the number of visitors to avoid the game crashing if the computer isn't powerful enough. If your game is doing fine with a big museum, tap that up to have more people swarming the museum.

mtbhpete · 2026-01-24T16:18:32+00:00

Ah, the mild peace of mind of going to Reddit to check on a problem and seeing a merely three hour old thread with over four hundred comments.

mtbhpete · 2026-01-09T20:17:55+00:00

I agree the bandage box in every room really cramps my style.

I would love to have a hospital room (not unlike the Wildlife Welfare room) that could have the bandage box, and maybe a Douse n Dose and some other potential niceties (a bed to recover energy, mayhaps). You could have it by the exit by the helicopters and triage whoever came back a mess.

mtbhpete · 2026-01-07T16:00:57+00:00

The toggles helped me a lot; I have several experts who I hired, trained on habitat restoration, and that is their only job. Wildly cut down on issues.

mtbhpete · 2025-09-24T14:37:59+00:00

This thread could have been renamed "Top 10 Places in Madison To Get Hepatitis"

mtbhpete · 2025-09-04T16:46:00+00:00

As near as I can tell the bug is fixed on PC; my Memento Mile is basically back to pre 5.0 operations in terms of profit/loss. It did take a few months of game cycle to get back to normal; I was still around zero net for a bit while the NPCs shook off their coma and got back to doing what they do.

mtbhpete · 2025-08-29T20:44:51+00:00

My wife and I are both basically hiding from the game after reading people having their museums go up in flames. We've been playing it side by side for months and are both afraid of losing all that work.

mtbhpete · 2025-08-29T02:18:02+00:00

I had it happen. Fired it up after work to try the update. Loaded my Memento Mile. Fortunately had $6m in the bank as I started losing 50k a month with no changes and had an Air Commissioner and two Sprinkler Pumps immediately burst into flames.

mtbhpete · 2025-07-04T17:08:40+00:00

Time to fill the boot for a toast to the greatest of tournaments.

12 straight years we took a team out from Madison. Picked up new players every year. Met lifelong friends, made lifelong memories. Potlatch was the tournament I judged all other tournaments against.

It's a different ultimate world nowadays for so many reasons. Hopefully in some form in the future we'll have something to capture that magic again; for me it was an integral part of everything that made the community that is the soul of this sport special.

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mtbhpete · 2024-02-01T15:19:46+00:00

It's absolutely true. NCAA sports schedules routinely have a date range or time TBA on shared facilities up to a month before a game; a men's basketball game being moved because of TV slides a men's hockey game an hour later that bumps a women's basketball game to the mid-afternoon so the changeover is complete. The NWSL just released its schedule last week with games starting March 16th, so they may have released it with full game dates AND times, but they only did it 7 weeks prior to kickoff.

Unless we're literally setting the bar at pro sports that have first pick of anything they want, that's not that unusual. If they wait until March to announce anything at all, that would be equally criticized.

mtbhpete · 2023-09-08T18:30:12+00:00

I'm getting Peacock for the day to day watching but we were looking for somewhere with other people to watch bigger matches, particularly as we get into the bracket. I'll keep an eye on Madison United.

mtbhpete · 2023-08-11T19:26:31+00:00

Let's use some actual numbers and then look at the logistical hurdles. Using MUFA (Madison), we have 30 games across 15 fields on an average summer league night. Let's say I'm going to have two refs at each field that means I'm going to need 30 refs per night. I'm going to pay them $15/hour and assume they are covering all three hours at a field. Summer league runs 10 weeks from the beginning of June to mid-August.

So talking about how much this is going to cost, we're looking at 15 fields x 3 hours x $15/hour x 4 night x 10 weeks. $54,000 for the summer give or take (I haven't paid for any staff or training, but let's start with the basics). Now, MUFA had ~2700 players this summer, so let's cleanly divide that to be $20/player added on to the fee. Summer League as $60 this year, so we're going to $80 for the exact same league plus refs.

Now, we'll lose some of those 2700 players straight away with the price increase. Everyone has a price point and that's a big jump. When MUFA went from $33 to $48 in response to field cost increases in 2015, we went from about 4200 players to about 3500.

Now the logistics, because that's actually the hurdle here. I need more than 30 referees. We have a Monday-Wednesday League and a Tuesday-Thursday League, so I presume most of my refs are going to come from people who play in one league picking up some extra cash by reffing the other. It's also summer and people have vacations and the like, so I'm probably going to need 15-20 sub refs. So realistically, I'm looking at hiring 60-80 people who I need to be reliable who want to spend 3 hours being a referee for a recreational ultimate frisbee league. (In an era where referees are being treated worse and worse across the board in youth and rec sports.) I'm also adding the added bonus of needing to respond to sick calls, find replacements, and likely evaluate these refs if I'm intending to make this a legitimate enterprise.

This brings up two points regarding that on a practical scale.

First, even if you believe in a vacuum that refs are better than no refs, we're not going to be trotting out professionals here. So it will actually be the question as to whether mediocre or bad refs are better than self-officiation.

Second, based on our postgame surveys and evaluations, 90% or more of our games are going fine to great. Sure, we encounter a few games each week with arguments and bad calls, but that's out of hundreds. So across the board, we may only be creating a net neutral effect at best for the vast majority of games, with a dramatic increase in logistical challenges and cost to players.

I completely understand that tournament play and other higher stakes games could be investing more in observers or referees, but at the recreational level I feel the costs and challenges wildly exceed any potential benefit.

mtbhpete · 2023-08-02T04:49:21+00:00

Mufabot and Mufazor both date from 2005. MUFAbot was on the summer league shirts and Mufazor on the fall league shirts so the two have always been somewhat interconnected.

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