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90% of my colonists don't have a job and wont get one.
The statistics give other information than the information bar at the top.
People wont employ themselves after I fire drill.
I have done three fire drills trying to fight problems, now the problems are magnified.
People wont go to the hydroponics centers so I am now relying on food donated to me.
Same goes for water. My power plants run on water too, so that's an extra problem.

I have about 10 000 colonists but I cannot tell for sure because the stats page hasn't updated in a while.


I have waited about 3 hours ingame for my citizens to reemploy.
I have tried fire drilling again.
I have tried manually employing citizens - which is a broken feature, I should mention.


I am running pc 0.44.0


Thanks in advance.

PS if the developer reads this. I could send you the world files so you can check it out

This problem has not been solved yet.

To add some information, many buildings behave like this:
When I hover over the given building, the progress bar doesn't move. When I click on a building it says it has the maximum employees. When I click on the emlpoyment list only a few names show up. At that point all the people who supposedly worked there exit the building.

A gif for proof:
https://gyazo.com/9f07dcf86d2b4b77dd4c8b13326107de

https://gyazo.com/5a78bded5dfcb347e71fa630bafe478a

I haven't experienced this yet but I've heard of colonists retiring due to wealth and that the fix is to tax them a few times to force them back to work. Also may help to reduce your welfare checks and check your salaries. Not sure if this is your issue but hope that helps. You can check average colonists savings in the statistics section as I'm sure you already know.

TLCTEX said:I haven't experienced this yet but I've heard of colonists retiring due to wealth and that the fix is to tax them a few times to force them back to work. Also may help to reduce your welfare checks and check your salaries. Not sure if this is your issue but hope that helps. You can check average colonists savings in the statistics section as I'm sure you already know.

This game should really have some notification system. I have been giving them citizens money for life because I thought that would make them happy. Now I know better... Thanks

I have a similar problem in ver .49, the difference is I cannot change my colonists jobs. If I try to hire them, the same thing happens. The building I click just gets highlighted.

Sorry, I need to add Retirement data back into the stats screen.

I just had this problem after doing a fire drill. The stats page said all jobs were filled but none of my micro chip factories were staffed. Food and water consumption doubled for no reason.

The solution I stumbled across was to sell a microchip factory and build a new one. Suddenly citizens started working again and the double food consumption rate normalized.