Graduates or Cheats?

[Fishman_Dan]

I was having a look around my town the other day and found a recent High School graduate, except it said...

"I graduated!! (Thanks to someoneorothers notes)"

I had a look at his intellegence, it was below average, so basically this bloke CHEATED through high-school. What are the implications and how should they be treated??

My read on it: He obviously didn't have the skills to be at that level, but if he gets a job that req'd high school training then he would do it poorly?

[Starfish]

 I wouldn't sweat it too much.

 He's fodder if he's going to be a soldier.  Fodder can be a good thing.

 At  the widget factory he can handle the widgets OK and produce your goods as long as he can find his way to the factory.

 Nothing to worry about.

[Maus]

He would increase his skill level at a slower rate than someone of higher intelligence, and would also have a lower maximum-skill cap.

The fact that he completed high school means that he has the required base intelligence -- the fact that he's "below average" might be a good sign: if intelligence rating is assigned relative the the rest of the population, it means that you have a relatively large percentage of highly intelligent people on your island. On the other hand, if intelligence rating is based on an absolute scale, it means that Tropico's academic standards are woefully lax; thus you will attract lots of party-hearty college students from the U.S.  

[Chris]

Ahem, I believe it's:

I Graduated! Thanks to El Cliffo notes.

[General PinochetNut]

He'll learn slower but I've had geniuses who cheated.

[Coconut Kid]

I was having a look ... and found a recent High School graduate, ... [who thought] "I graduated!! (Thanks to someoneorothers [El Cliffo] notes)"  I had a look at his intelligence, it was below average, so basically this bloke CHEATED through high-school. What are the implications and how should they be treated? ...

There's lots of needed information not available here. Mainly, was Fisherman_Dan using that infamous in game cheat, Learning with Larry? There is a strong presumption that "LwL" not only causes all kinds of worker avatars (including Rebels) to fill their experience gages faster, but also lowers the intelligence level required for entry to the schools.

The implication is not that the educated level job will be done "poorly." That's not the game concept. The intelligence level interacts with the speed with which the job experience gage is filled. Without "LwL" operating on the new HS level job, it would take the subject longer to come to full proficiency\experience than someone with a higher level of intelligence.

So if the player has "LwL" covering his entire population, all it does is speed up the normal process for charging the experience gages. Does faster, faster, quicker, quicker make better, better gameplay?

That is the reason I have the opinion that Learning with Larry is nothing more than a "speedup" cheat introduced by the developers to placate the frenetic test players who wanted to RRT2 trains to run at 90 miles per hour.