1) If I postpone hiring specialists for three or more hiring cycles, what happens? Can I safely accumulate hires without any losses?
What about visibility and availability of hiring options? Do I only get to see the specialists available for the two first cycles? If not, do I lose the opportunity to hire from the first cycles?
Let me use an example to better explain the question:
As my first hiring options (my first hiring cycle) I get to choose between specialists A, B and C. I can see that, in my next hiring cycle, I'll be able to hire D, E or F. Suppose I don't hire anyone at this first opportunity. 18h later, I'll have two hires available and the visibility of my choices stays the same (options A, B or C for my first hire and D, E and F for the second one). Suppose I still don't hire anyone until another 18h later. What's the situation?
Do I get to hire 3 times in a row? If so, can I see what can be hired as my 3rd hire BEFORE I hire the first specialist?
2) About stacking specialist powers: As I've been reading here in the forums, duplicate specialists do stack their abilities. For example, if I have two generals, 20 drillers will be destroyed from my enemy each combat any specialist I own is involved in (is this correct?)
Well, some specialists have abilities that involve a percentage of increase or decrease in something, for example, the Tycoon speeds up the driller production rate by 50% (multiplies it by 1.5). Do these kinds of special abilities double dip? So, if I have two Tycoons, will my driller production rate be increased by 100% (1.5 + 0.5) or 125% (1.5 * 1.5)? The latter being the double dipping.
What about two Engineers? Do I get 50% of my drillers repaired after won combats (repaired drillers = lost drillers * (0.25 + 0.25)) or 31.25% (repaired drillers = 0.25 * lost drillers + lost drillers (0.25 * 0.25))? In this case, the double dipping would be detrimental (diminishing return), but still better than a single Engineer.
The same question applies to all stackable effects. Do they all work the same way (with or without double dipping/diminishing returns)?