Some Questions about Atmo Suit Checkpoint, XP, Flying FPS and Cocktails

[Tzunki]

Hello everybody,

Despite my 670 hours of play, I never got to the end game. I always play with "everyone is welcome". I get a new dupe every 3 cycles, unless the material reward is very good.
Because of this, my colony always dies in midgame for various reasons. In my current colony I only have one opponent at the moment, the FPS. But I can live with 20 FPS and moon walking dupes.

But now a few questions have arisen, which unfortunately I cannot answer. Unfortunately, search rarely gave good results (or more likely that I did not search properly).

A) My oil biome has an entrance with suits and a lock. I would like to build a second entrance at the other end. Do the Dupes get it sorted with the suits or do they have 30 suits on the one hand and no more on the other at the end of the day?
B) I don't understand the XP system. An activity is assigned the corresponding skill. Mining more increases mining skill, as far as clear. What influences the "normal" skill level. Every Dupe XP gets by time, by activity, by loved activity? What does science affect? On both XP values?
C) I currently have over 100 dupes (and increasing). I would like to build a jet suit, but according to old forum entries, the FPS breaks down properly. Is it still like that?
D) Stack the different vending machines. I currently have soda dispensers. How many dupes are covered by it? Since my first Dupe is unfortunately provided with all skills, they are currently more on the massage bench than at work (moral deficit). A drinks machine gives +4 morale. Soda and espresso would give 8 or only 4?

[Meltdown]

1 hour ago, Tzunki said:

A) My oil biome has an entrance with suits and a lock. I would like to build a second entrance at the other end. Do the Dupes get it sorted with the suits or do they have 30 suits on the one hand and no more on the other at the end of the day?

Atmosuit checkpoints have clearance setting that can prevent dupes from exiting from it if there is no dock for their suit. So, just make sure that both checkpoints have their clearance set to "vacancy", and everything would be fine.
 

1 hour ago, Tzunki said:

Soda and espresso would give 8 or only 4?

They would give 8, I believe. However, IIRC, using each of them takes about 30 seconds, so it would take a notable part of dupe's downtime to use both.

1 hour ago, Tzunki said:

Since my first Dupe is unfortunately provided with all skills, they are currently more on the massage bench than at work (moral deficit)

Well, you don't have to spend every skill point your dupes acquire. It is more efficient to have each dupe capable of doing 1-2 jobs, and it would take about 3-5 skill points to learn all necessary skills for it. After that, just ignore them.

[Steve8]

16-20 dupes is all you need

Make sure the docks are set to "vacancy only". Then they will use other locations if they can't find a place for the suits

Buffs should stack if the dupes use multiple buildings

 

[SackMaggie]

• A There's an option at the check point set it to Vacant? (the one that say only accept if the dock is empty something like that).
• B After the job update, I don't really know and not seen anyone test it but it seem like everything reward xp maybe even stay still.
• C Not sure
• D If they give you different buff they stack else it refresh duration BTW you can reset your dupe skill

And Keeping your avg. decor high can reward you up to 12 morale.

[bobucles]

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I currently have over 100 dupes (and increasing). 

Maybe don't do that? In this particular game, every extra dupe is another mouth to feed and another precious resource drain. It's very easy to keep 3 dupes alive for a long time as wild food and renewable resources will easily keep them going. A pretty good colony size is around a dozen, so you can run good construction projects without demanding too much infrastructure. An upper limit towards late game is closer to 30 dupes, after all the major industrial backbone is set up.

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B

Check out the Skill and Stats progress mod. Last I checked, a dupe gains job XP over time by working most of their jobs. Some of the XP things can be weird, but the mod will make finding them easy. 

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1710666223&searchtext=xp

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C

Pathing is probably the single largest FPS drain in the game. 100 dupes will nuke your game by creating an enormous amount of pathing requests. Split up your base extensively, so that dupes have extremely limited path options. That means only letting a handful of them access outside the base or access the jet suit docks.

D

The Skill Scrubber will reset a dupe's spec. Use it to fix morale issues.

https://oxygennotincluded.gamepedia.com/Skill_Scrubber

[Sasza22]

A) As mentioned above with set to vacancy dupes will not be allowed to exit from the side that doesn`t have place to put the suit.

B) I`m pretty sure that the skill levels are affected by learning. High learning dupes should get them faster. But they need to work to get progress. I`m not sure about specifics though.

C) Normally dupes move on flat surfaces and it already hits the performance pretty hard. Jet suits quadruple the amount of paths a dupe can take, especially if it`s open to space. I fear that with 100 dupes your pc might slow down to single digit fps if you build those. But for smaller amounts of dupes (12-15) it`s still playable.

D) All the different recreation activities stack so yes you can get +8 from soda with expresso. I don`t remember the exact times each activity takes but remember you can change your schedules. If each batch of dupes has a break at different times more of them can use the same recreation stuff. Also some of the buffs last up to 3 cycles so they don`t have to use them too often.