Is it me or are Adept Doctors just plain lazy? Whenever I go back to a game they are "Eating" or "Enjoying the pond". Arrrggghh!! When they are trainees they go around studying until they become adept - great! Then, unless I physically drag them onto the strange plants every time, they stop studying and go wondering off. Any ideas? Am I playing the muppet version?

Please no spoliers.

many thanks!
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Patience, grasshopper. You will eventually get a master.

Thanks for replying. Ah, well patience is not my strong point, hence I played VV1 almost entirely by time-shifting - BAD cleeby!

I'm determined to play VV2 properly and I've been playing for a couple of weeks, several hours a day (i'm on garden leave from being made redundant and playing in between job searching!). 3 of my games have been running for around 380 hours. Soooooo should I still be patient?

cheers
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Yes, I know you don't want spoilers as was mentioned in your earlier post. So, to not give you any, the only thing that I can say to help is to nudge your adept doctors back over to the plants and make them study. Also, if you have one that is more adept than the other, when someone does become sick; quick move the doc over to the sick one for healing. Other than real spoilers, I don't know what other ideas to give you.

Good Luck.

Thanks. That is what I have been doing. With a scientist, builder, parent and farmer I can leave them to do their thing once they become trainees, but with a doctor I have to physically make them study once they get to adept. This means that the others can become masters of their accord whereas my doctors don't. My people dont really get sick so they dont get much opportunity to heal. I suppose my question is am I doing it right and just being impatient or is there something else I need to do, i.e. research more or solve a puzzle first?

Thanks.
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Cleeby, I don't know how far you are in the game and what you have in tech. I would try to solve puzzles if you have the requirements. Also, how many people are you training for doctor? If you have a small village, and have several doctors, it might distract from one becoming master.

Good luck.

I have gained level 2 in all the techs and level 3 in farming, science and culture. I have about 70 population and about 4 adult doctors. I have 5 tribes in all and they all seem to be the doing the same. I have solved 9 puzzles in once of the tribes and around 6 to 8 in the other tribes. So I am quite a long way into it.

My strategy is to have roughly the same number of people doing the same types of job, so they have an even spread of skills. I have a spreadsheet recording who does what so that I can keep on track with them all. I change their jobs if I get impatient with a task and decide that I need loads of builders, then I change them back to their original jobs once a task is completed.

I don't want to reduce the number of doctors too much in case one of them suddenly dies and then I am stuck without an adept doctor when i need one for a puzzle or event that I haven't yet come across.

I might just have to be brave and change one tribe to only having one doctor and see if that works.

Thanks for answering and being really great at not giving me any spoilers. I just want to make sure I'm not being a doofus!

Thanks.
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Cleeby, not a spoiler -- you are NEVER without someone to heal!

Spoiler text hidden, since the original poster specifically asked for NO spoilers. well, my best strategy for getting a master doctor is to make a stew that makes everyone sick, then having the doctor you want to be a master heal them all. It's great if you have a really high population--healing 89 villagers gives the doctor a LOT of skill. And I also noticed that even though the doctors will wander off, if you have enough people in the hospital they will eventually come back and heal them on their own.

I also noticed that sick villagers stay sick for many "years" before they die.:?

Ok well I really don't have any sick people - honest. they just occasionally sneeze and a doc comes rushing to heal them then thats it.

OK OK I gave up and I looked at the white text spoiler! well i was on the right track I suppose. I had thought about making them sick after reading margi's post. But thats a bit mean surely? i dont know if I want to 'make' them ill!

i dont have a stew recipe yet that makes them ill. hmmm.... not sure if I can be that horrid to my poor little ones. I have found one that tastes nasty but I dont think it makes them sick or maybe they havent eaten enough of it.

Well thanks Margi and kactus, at least I understand what I need to do now. Happy Cleeby
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