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Offline kharille

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Choosing promotions?
« on: November 15, 2016, 06:11:31 am »
Seems crazy that you don't get to choose who to promote.  Would it be hard to introduce a system where you can select who to promote?

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Re: Choosing promotions?
« Reply #1 on: November 20, 2016, 10:22:36 am »
Seems crazy that you don't get to choose who to promote.  Would it be hard to introduce a system where you can select who to promote?

No, it's not hard.

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Re: Choosing promotions?
« Reply #2 on: November 21, 2016, 05:58:08 am »
Cause' right now the only option I have is to kill all the unworthy officers.  I suppose I could just fire them but its more fun to 'get the most out of them'...

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Re: Choosing promotions?
« Reply #3 on: November 21, 2016, 11:42:18 am »
Killing is quite harsh ... why not open up the savegame in an editor and demote them manually?

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Re: Choosing promotions?
« Reply #4 on: November 22, 2016, 09:08:42 am »
More fun seeing who survives 'friendly fire'...

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Re: Choosing promotions?
« Reply #5 on: December 17, 2016, 10:13:54 pm »
Give them a stunrod and a pistol instead. Make them earn the right to exist.

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Re: Choosing promotions?
« Reply #6 on: December 17, 2016, 10:42:04 pm »
Give them a stunrod and a pistol instead. Make them earn the right to exist.


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Re: Choosing promotions?
« Reply #7 on: December 19, 2016, 01:51:08 pm »
You can now demote soldiers in OXCE+.

Press and hold left-CTRL... "SACK" button will temporarily change to "DEMOTE" button... each click decreases rank by 1.



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Re: Choosing promotions?
« Reply #8 on: December 19, 2016, 02:18:47 pm »
Wow, this is a neat function.

Well, I don't expect to use it, ever, but I admit, it's pretty cool.

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Re: Choosing promotions?
« Reply #9 on: December 19, 2016, 10:52:52 pm »
Loki definitely has a demotion or two lined up.

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Re: Choosing promotions?
« Reply #10 on: December 21, 2016, 10:29:01 am »
So this'll be another nightly update?  Looking at nightlies, its only up to 10th Dec....

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Re: Choosing promotions?
« Reply #11 on: December 21, 2016, 11:30:50 am »
So this'll be another nightly update?  Looking at nightlies, its only up to 10th Dec....

I am not a vanilla developer, I can't put anything into the nightlies, it's only in my own fork.

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Re: Choosing promotions?
« Reply #12 on: January 11, 2017, 03:51:51 am »


Fellow dude, that's a VERY AWESOME drawing!
Author does God's work!

Gotta love some of the details, like the faux-FPS perspective (looks like concepts from X-COM The FPS),  the fantastic weapons, the scarily alien and powerful build of the Chrysalid and the Chrysalid clawing out of that zombie.

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Re: Choosing promotions?
« Reply #13 on: January 11, 2017, 04:54:01 am »
All credit goes to Jaekyu, whoever they are. ;)

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Re: Choosing promotions?
« Reply #14 on: February 05, 2017, 01:49:20 pm »
You can now demote soldiers in OXCE+.

Press and hold left-CTRL... "SACK" button will temporarily change to "DEMOTE" button... each click decreases rank by 1.

This feature has now been removed from OXCE+.
Thanks to all potential future abusers and exploiters and all overly worried and excessively restrictive critics.