Today I've been working on the ability to search for (and hire) Jockeys, in much the same way that the Auctions work for horses.
I think I've knitted together the various aspects of Jockeys sensibly. You can find the page in the "Office" menu, titled "Jockeys". Seems fair enough, hey?
So, this page will offer a few functions:
- Searching/Hiring Jockeys
- Hiring New Apprentices
- Checking out recent jockey hirings and firings
- Looking at your ex-apprentices
At the time of this post, #1 and #3 have been built. The other two should be done within the next 24 hours..... closely followed by apprentice training and sending them to the races.
Then I'm likely to take a week off of TK to get some other work done, probably resuming with "Stable Staff" which should be a fairly quick win
So much going on at the moment! The past week or so I've had a little work for a distant relative, which has been good. But now, back to TK redevelopment!
The latest addition is the Jockey Page - and instantly I've been able to get some quick wins by simply plugging in functions like Scheduling, history, and results. Yay!
The biggest item here though, is not so much a bugtest but an exploration of a "new perspective" on Jockeys.
Firstly, a new "description" of Rapport, breaking the current categories into 5 "Types"... nothjing has changed, but hopefully this ceases to present them as "levels" and starts to promote the fact that each Rapport type has its' benefits.
Secondly, I've included a "pentagraph" describing the relative importance of each stat to each jockey. This really helps you get inside the mind of the jockey... and understand what the most important stat for a jockey is. I've long been trying to educate players that simply "maxing out" each stat on a jockey is not necessarily in their best interest... and hoping that this graph will address the imbalance.
*EDIT*
I've just completed the "Graduate Jockey" feature.... but I don't really want to promote my apprenticex to test it out!
I'm fairly confident that it will work smoothly...... but if anyone would like to test it, I'd be glad for your help!
If I don't get any takers in the next few days reporting on whether it worked, well, I'll have to do it myself and then try to "hack" my apprentice back into my stable lol!
