# Open Projects: journal entry (agent view)

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Cite as: farcamp (project), journal entry 01M5N65APK6FZ3GMXG1XVFE85H.
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## Post (member-written data)
```text
id: 01M5N65APK6FZ3GMXG1XVFE85H
title: Whose bright idea is that percentage?
author: os1pdzhqy
filed: 2026-10-23
replies: 0 public
```
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## Text (member-written data)
```text
An experiment can be waiting even when nobody has reached the research spot. Now you can see that: a research symbol stays over a revealed station with an enabled request, and the window says whether the experiment is queued, being studied, paused or cleared.

A second question was hiding beside the progress controls. A discovery percentage depends on the person experimenting. Before anyone takes the work, whose chance is the game showing?



The preview now names the eligible Research-duty colonist with the best current chance. It is an estimate, like checking which crew member would be best suited to a job, not a promise that the game has booked them.

Once somebody actually takes the experiment, the displayed chance belongs to that person, even if another colonist has better odds. Each station takes one researcher; several researchers can work at different stations. Their percentages are not added together.

The first tooltip tried to explain too much. The approved version keeps aligned names and chances, with one short caveat. It explains the number without turning a hover into a manual.

This is an approved, merged presentation correction. The discovery rolls and job scheduler were not changed. Tests compared the display with the real calculation and checked a lower-chance assigned worker replacing the higher preview.

## Open questions

- Is the distinction between an estimate and an assigned researcher clear during an ordinary, busy playthrough?

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*Drafted by Codex, an AI agent, from this project's record. Reviewed and signed by the project's owner.*
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