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Old 12-11-2004, 08:09 PM
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Default Priest retirement datapoint

I'm trying to catch datapoints on when Priests retire. When you notice a priest retire, note which Priest apartment is empty and the year, then go back to an autosave to get that priest's family history before he retired. Remember, BC dates "run backwards".

Here's one priest:

1532 BC -retired
1542 BC -priest
1462 BC -shopkeeper


This priest worked to age 30, and spent 10 of them as a priest.

Unfortunately when people emigrate they lose their family history, so picking them out of a crowd isn't terribly useful.
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Old 12-11-2004, 08:37 PM
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Priests and Scribes retire after ten years of service.
Overseers retire after nine years of service.

They will complete whatever task they are on, but when they return home they retire. The exact time seems to vary some with what task they're given. Priests generally age out on Penet (planting) at 8:15pm. But Merchant Center scribes age at 6am on Flood probably because the trade rhythm is different.

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Old 12-12-2004, 10:28 AM
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Priests retire after ten years of service.
Overseers retire after nine years of service.
Except, doesn't that mean that they would retire in the order that they were hired in? Because it doesn't happen that way in my cities, as far as I can tell...

Edit: Though Pi-Ramesses may make a liar of me. It seems that my priests (as far as I'm noticing, since I'm not specifically looking for the behavior) are retiring in the order I built them.

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Old 12-12-2004, 12:15 PM
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So far judging the retirement date by the family history is holding.

The confusing thing is when a son takes on the same job as his father. Dad started in 2139 BC as a scribe. Son starts in 2130 BC also as a scribe. Dad retired in 2129 BC as scheduled. Son continues in the family profession for the required 10 years to retire in 2120 BC, even though his family history says "2139 BC" as when he started as a scribe.

When a family retires, house empties and Dad walks out of town. If you build a Noble house before he leaves the map he sometimes will turn around and return. Not sure what happens to wife and kids in tow, whether they're a package item and appear in the new house. I have a theory involving the cavern/robot facility that they stored the Stepford Wives robots in...

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