Training (Game Dev Story)

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Training methods are one of the ways you can increase your employees' stats, the other being leveling them up. However, unlike leveling which uses Research Data and raises their salary, training uses theirpower and cash. Training can raise an employee's Programming, Scenario Writing, and Graphics and Sound ability.

You start off with only a few training methods, but unlock more as the game progresses. After using enough training methods on an employee, the effect they have on that employee diminishes, possibly to zero. However, using a more powerful training method will allow the employee to once again learn something. On any training type, there is a chance for the training to be super effective.

Super effective training (shown as "Super Parameter Up") will award 3x the base increase for a training method, even after that training method would normally have no effect. This is a completely random occurrence, however.

Even after you can't raise an employee's stats with training anymore, you can still raise your stats by 6 somewhat frequently using the "pinball" training up to 999. However, unlike other trainings, no super parameters power up will occur.

Power

Power is required to be able to train an employee and is an attribute specific to that employee. Power is used during training and during development work. It is restored when staff go home or through the use of energy drinks bought from Pumpkin Products. While training, there is a random chance for you to greatly increase your parameters, usually triple the normal rate. This can even happen when a training has lost normal effect and is giving no normal stat increase.

Every employee has a separate max power level specific to them. Even if a training method takes more power than the employee has, as long as they have at least two points of power they can train.  You can exploit this fact when employees are out of the office by only allowng them to regenerate about 2.5 points of energy and then training them.  Repeat the regenerate 2.5 points and retrain as many times as you want.

Methods list

The listed increases are the initial stat increases, these will lower the more training that is done.

Training Methods

Name	Cost ($)	Power Required	Stat Boost				Unlock Condition
Stroll	30.0K	2	∅	+3	+3	∅	Initially Available
Reading	30.0K	2	+4	+3	∅	∅	Initially Available
Movie	50.0K	2	∅	∅	+4	+4	Initially Available
Anime	70.0K	3	+5	+4	+3	+2	Initially Available
Game	100.0K	3	+6	∅	+5	∅	Initially Available
Jogging	120.0K	4	+4	∅	∅	+5	Move to office 2
Pinball	80.0K	5	+0 or +6				Move to office 2
Meditate	90.0K	5	+1	+2	+1	+3	Move to office 2
Concert	160.0K	3	+3	∅	∅	+5	Move to office 2
Net Surf	280.0K	4	+7	+5	-5	∅	Move to office 2
Museum	300.0K	4	+5	+6	+6	-3	Move to office 2
College	550.0K	6	-2	+5	∅	∅	Move to office 3
Lab Study	800.0K	7	+6	-3	+3	+4	Move to office 3
Short Trip	1,050.0K	9	+8	+7	+4	+5	Move to office 3
Long Trip	2,500.0K	11	+5	+8	+6	+6	Move to office 3