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Open Feedback / Re: Promotions Issue (not sure if bug or feature)

« on: November 17, 2014, 04:46:54 pm »

Yes, there was a thread about about that, https://openxcom.org/forum/index.php?topic=1493.0 (.  That's not the problem I was having - my rookies are being promoted to squaddie, but they're not getting further promotions.

If I have 15 soliders in total (all rookies), and I send 6 on a mission and they all get kills, I'd expect to see all of them being promoted to squaddie and 3 of them getting further promotion to sergeant  (i.e. 3 Sgts and 3 squaddies in total.)  But what's actually happening is only one is being promoted to sergeant, but the others still get promoted to squaddie, so I have 1 sergeant and 5 squaddies.

It happens at higher levels as well - if I have 2 sergeants and 8 squaddies, and hire another 12 rookies, after my next mission I'd expect to see both sergeants being promoted to captain, and 4 of my squaddies promoted to sergeant.  But I'm only actually getting 1 sergeant promoted to captain, and 1 squaddie promoted to sergeant.

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Open Feedback / Re: Promotions Issue (not sure if bug or feature)

« on: November 17, 2014, 06:08:14 am »

Thanks Warboy.

To clarify - yes, I do have enough Squaddies.  For example,  if I start a new game and recruit 7 new rookies (to get to a total of 15), and if my first mission is a scout, then there'll usually be enough aliens (i.e. targets)  for me to get about 5 or 6 promoted to squaddie - and of those 5 or 6, I'd expect to see 3 getting direct promotion to Sergeant.  (Certainly, that's how it worked in the original xcom.)  But at the moment, I'm only getting one promotion.

I posted this here because I wasn't sure if it was a bug or not, but I'm happy to raise an issue in the bug tracker if you want me to.

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Open Feedback / Promotions Issue (not sure if bug or feature)

« on: November 16, 2014, 10:03:08 pm »

I'm a long-term xcom player, but fairly new to Openxcom.  One thing I've noticed is that at the end of a mission, I only ever seem to get one promotion at each level (i.e. only one promotion to sergant, one to captain, etc...)  So if I start a new game and immediately recruit an extra 7 soliders (to bring my total to 15), only one will be promoted to Sergeant at the end of the first mission, instead of the 3 I'd expect.

It gets ever weirder if you recruit a lot of soliders fairly quickly.  Because you're only getting 1 sergeant promotion after each mission, you don't have a lot of sergeants to then be promoted to officers.  I've got one new game where I've got 33 soldiers... but only 1 Cdr, 1 Col, 1 Capt and 1 Sgt!  (I'd expect 3 Capts and 6 Sgts.)

Can anyone tell me if this is a bug, or a deliberate feature?  (And if it is a feature, can anyone tell me why?)