Personnel Management V1.2.0.0

Personnel Management gives Farming Simulator 25 a persistent employee system. You can meet applicants, bring employees onto your farm and build a team that keeps developing over time.

Every employee comes with a name, a portrait and their own background. Experience, reliability, loyalty and specializations make your helpers feel like individual members of the workforce. Their assignments and important events are saved in a personal career history, so you can keep track of how each one develops.

Features

• Meet applicants in job interviews while some of their attributes are still partly hidden.
• If job interviews are enabled, you first see an approximate range for one of three attributes: experience, reliability or loyalty.
• You can ask up to three questions in an interview and decide which attributes you want to investigate.
• Follow-up questions make an attribute’s range smaller and can eventually uncover its exact value.
• Once the interview is complete, you learn what salary the applicant expects.
• Pause an interview and come back to it later.
• Unknown attributes are revealed as a newly hired employee spends time on assignments.
• Turn job interviews off in the settings if you want every applicant attribute to be visible straight away.
• In multiplayer, other players on your farm can follow the interview. The first authorized player to open the interview window controls the conversation.
• The applicant market brings people with different backgrounds and attributes.
• Hired employees become permanent parts of your farm’s workforce and can take supported helper jobs.
• Assignments give employees experience and let them build specializations.
• The training menu shows how employees are progressing and lets you choose specialization training.
• Learned specializations can be switched on or off, and the menu shows their current status.
• Applicant and employee profiles use a range of text variants.
• Career histories keep records of hiring, finished assignments, training and salary decisions.
• Employees gain experience and develop while they work through assignments.
• Reliability changes how dependably employees work. An unreliable employee may stop an assignment before it is finished.
• Salary decisions and other events influence how attached an employee is to your farm. Low loyalty can result in a resignation.
• Each employee gets an individual salary. You can review salary requests in one place and accept or reject them individually.
• Employees can be dismissed, resign or announce retirement as they grow older. The applicable notice periods apply.
• Choose employees for transport work and set their priority order in the transport management window.
• Press Ctrl + M to open the dedicated Personnel Management menu. You will find the applicant market, employee profiles, training, settings and an overview of your farm’s personnel development there.
• When you start a supported helper job, the employee selection window shows the staff who are available, along with portraits, attributes and professional development.
• Use the settings to adjust various effects and features to your play style.
• A detailed help section is available in the game.
• Personnel Management supports AutoDrive, Courseplay and FollowMe.
• Courseplay lets you pick an available employee for a job.
• AutoDrive uses employees marked for transport work and follows the priority you assigned them.
• FollowMe jobs need one more employee for the vehicle that follows.
• The mod supports multiplayer and personnel data that belongs to each farm.
• The server handles personnel actions and checks permissions and farm ownership.
• Existing savegames can still be carried over.
• Activity tracking for specialization progress has been improved. Recognition cannot be guaranteed in every situation because equipment and mod combinations can vary.

Changelog

V1.2.0.0

• Job interviews now keep applicant attributes from being fully visible at the start.
• At the beginning, you see a range for one of these three attributes: experience, reliability or loyalty.
• Before hiring someone, you can interview each applicant in up to three question rounds.
• Ask follow-up questions to narrow an attribute’s range and, eventually, find its exact value.
• You can stop an interview and continue it later.
• The applicant’s salary expectation is shown after the interview.
• Once the exact experience value is known, the applicant’s rank becomes visible.
• After hiring, the other unknown attributes are revealed while the employee spends time on assignments. The required time is different for every employee.
• You can disable job interviews in the settings.
• In multiplayer, other players on the same farm can follow an interview. The first authorized player who opens the window takes charge.
• Applicant and employee profiles now offer more text variants.
• In the training menu, switching learned specializations on and off is clearer, and the selection shows the current status.
• The employee selection window has been moved to an XML user interface.
• Menus and dialogs have been visually redesigned so they share a consistent look.
• All supported languages received new and revised texts. AI helped create the translations, and they have not yet been fully reviewed.
• Fixed an issue that could keep the Personnel Management menu from opening.
• Fixed an issue that could cause regular stuttering.
• Specialization progress tracking is improved: short assignments and fractions of minutes can now count toward progress.
• The elapsed time and known activity of ongoing assignments are now saved.
• Multiplayer actions, farm data and employee assignments are handled and secured more effectively.
• Existing savegames can still be carried over.

V1.1.4.4

• Full employee chronicles still stay in the savegame, but they are no longer copied and sent to clients with every state update.
• The personnel overview continues to get the totals and latest events it needs; its chronicle values are recalculated only when something changes.
• Data from farms that are no longer registered remains in the savegame, but regular personnel checks and network states no longer process it.
• The full chronicle is no longer normalized or sorted during normal runtime.
• Saving no longer makes a full working copy.
• The missing localization for the “Release blocked employee” input action has been added for every supported language.
• Unsupported Unicode minus signs in the German, English and French Help texts have been replaced with minus signs compatible with the font.

V1.1.3.0

• A new “Help” tab is now part of the “Personnel Management” menu. It includes a detailed in-game guide in all 21 supported languages.
• The simultaneous handover of several vehicles from AutoDrive to Courseplay has been fixed.
• During an automatic handover, each vehicle keeps its own reserved worker.
• Different vehicles are prevented from using duplicate worker reservations.
• Savegame path resolution and its related diagnostic messages have been improved.
• An existing helperPersonnel.xml can no longer be overwritten after a loading attempt fails.
• The way personnel data is saved has been adapted to the FS25 save process.
• The main and backup files are written directly and then validated, with no new temporary files left in the savegame.
• If the primary helperPersonnel.xml is corrupted or unreadable, the game can now load from a validated backup.