Yes, and we are very much not trying to recruit to many heroes. Remember we have the soft cap, and we just got an unexpected sweep of learning heroes from skilled doctors, one of which is good for stewardship. Also stronger success tend to come with more options to choose from. We'd have fairly good odds of getting the stewardship heroes we need without needing to guarantee reroll, and decent odds of them also being good for learning.
But if those heroes are split between all stats roughly equally, at least in terms of options, then we will not get a significant number of them and those that are will not necessarily be at the top of their fields.
Saying "soft cap" doesn't apply in this case either since it's more of a quality vs quantity issue rather than decrying quantity outright.
Yes, carl doesn't have especially amazing stats, but he has good ones in two catagories and makes up for them with particularly good traits and a lack of work he insists on doing semi-frequently. Same with Felicity.
Yes, the two heroes who didn't have a particularly great roll to split between them didn't come out the strongest. If we are planning to use them for learning, particularly strong learning teams, that will fix itself relatively quickly with a few learn about actions we want to take anyway.
Felicity and Carl are very good for what they are - Carl is a world-class security expert and Felicity is one of the world's leading experts on computers. They are both good hero units individually, I very much consider them to be outliers, however - in the same way that I consider the original "recruit scientists" subvote that got us Pamela and Ivo to be an outlier.
Please name these scientists. Pamela had human plant serum and environmental preservation. Ivo had his amazo project. Karl is still working on bone serum over 20 turns later.
Meena has Dhawan Particle, but is the rare exception who is excited about all science and so isn't too particular about it, or may simply be easily sated because Dhawan Particle pops up unexpectedly in a lot of learning projects we undertake.
Louise and Caitlin were a package deal and Caitlin more like Louise's assistant than not and were exclusively good for cold engine and not much else before lucky breaks with it and heat chamber much improved Caitlin.
Enoch has achieved his big science project and wants legal help and vengeance instead. Catherine was snatched up early enough that she hadn't had a chance to find her focus yet, which is the whole reason we picked her.
Yes, there are characters who function like scientists for us at times but are distinctly not scientist. Felicity and frost are more engineers than scientists, even if Felicity has grown into the role. Raven is a magic user who will do a lot of research on our behalf but isn't a scientist.
Sure. Most of the scientists from all of the subvotes that we were offered but didn't take, for one thing (Ted Kord, Ray Palmer, Ira Selby, Karen Lou Falkner, all the doctors etc. Dozens of characters).
Also, you are being revisionist here - Pamela wasn't recruited with the goal of the Human Plant serum (the players chose to create that) and Meena wasn't recruited for the Dhawan Particle (players chose to create and pursue it). In terms of particularness, Karl isn't very particular about the bone growth formula either since it's technically complete and has been for a long while.
Caitlin was never particular about anything (she came with Louise as her lacky, with Louise being the particular one - if the players put Louise on Cold Enginer actions but not Caitlin then Caitlin wouldn't have minded)
There' arealso Moon and Villain, and Enoch Brown as you said came with a finished product that we can choose to expand upon or not.
I think that portraying all of our scientists as special snowflakes like this is a bad take.
I really feel we need more stewardship than we need a batch of fresh quirky learning heroes. The main reason we don't have another 2 good learning heroes is there locked up handling stewardship, which isn't always a bad thing. Our flexible hero units tend to get more important things done than the ones who are just good for one thing, Ivo's trait making him the exception.
Depending on what happens this turn, an influx of competent assistants with stewardship to pair with heroes we already have and free up Felicity and Frost to team up with meena is probably a better approach than going strait for scientists. If we decide we need to follow up with a recruit scientists then we can do that.
I agree with you in that we do need Stewardship more than we need Learning - we have taken steps to mitigate our issues with Learning (recruiting doctors, recruiting occultists) so it's not as much of a problem. What I am saying is that if we want good Learning units then we should pursue them directly rather than trying to go about it in a roundabout way through recruiting assistants, especially since the DC for both is roughly equivalent.
I do think that, if possible, we should prioritize recruiting executives and managers over recruiting assistants, since while the DC is a lot higher, the quality of the relevant hero units will be higher and more specific to our needs as well.
