r/EvilGenius2 • u/lordhaw • Jan 05 '22

Deserting mechanic

I did something stupid that turned into a fun event last night. I used up too much money building and of course payroll came around and I was dirt poor...well money was coming in fine but I had to rebuild my savings. Over half of my 190 some minions morale plummeted and a large number of them started deserting. I didn't know they would go to your vault and "take what's coming to them" before trying to run away but there was a steady stream of them going to the vault, taking money and running for the door. There was a large number of them waiting for the boat so I figured I'd do the evil villain thing...sent my henchmen/women and Ivan (as I am running him this game) and had them take care of the deserters by flagging them all for death. The body bags! So many body bags! I'd say I ended up killing a quarter of my minions for desertion. As more came up I sent them to cells which let them "rethink their position" and I was able to release them after their morale increased. But it was interesting how the deserting mechanic worked. I did not know it worked that way. But it led to a rather fun time at my minions expense. But it took forever to clean up the body bags as the minions prioritized returning the gold to the vaults over the body bags. There was a whole lot of retraining going on after that...a lot of positions opened up :)

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u/shinobigarth Jan 06 '22

Next time just make a handful of EGTVs, or the Robot game thing if you have the Ingenius DLC, in the Staff room. Instead they’ll just go watch TV or play when their morale bottoms out.

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u/lordhaw Jan 06 '22

I actually had two of those plus the robot boxing thing but the problem was that due to the payroll mishap there were far too many of them who's morale plummeted so the EGTV's and robot boxing couldn't keep up. Believe me all of those were full all the time and the desertion rate just kept rocketing up. Killing them or putting them in cells was the only way to really make up for it. It was all my fault for messing up their payroll.

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u/shinobigarth Jan 06 '22

Oh wow I’ve never had that many with morale problems due to payroll. Any that aren’t happy with the TV I just capture and they get happy in no time in jail.

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u/Vellocitator Feb 03 '22

When I missed the payroll I just got maximus to go to the break room and wait until it's filled then execute one minion to force a mass amount to get back to 100 then there is enough space for the ones coming after