Officers get mistakenly retired due to "time in tour" counter not resetingI've already suspected this for a while, but now I've been hit heavily by this phenomenon, so I documented a case. My current leading Admiral in my game is already 90 and has been sick for decades. Though Admirals are often miraculously hardy and can survive into 110+, you've of course to plan for the worst, so I had long since a protegee officer spied out, who made it be called "his excellency" at the age of 30. He had a job for most of the time, but in favor for some youngster training, I pulled him out just a couple months before the next reassignment circle.
...He got fired for being unassigned for too long...:
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Luckily I could roll back a save and confirm all this. I've before noticed that for example officers who just got out of a disbanded geology team would arrive in "unassigned" state with 3+ years in tour for example. It seemed like the assignment timer does not reset upon relief anymore.(cannot say I know the phenomenon from older versions..)
So to prove that, here is that same fresh Admiral a couple months earlier:
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...And after taking him out and advancing 5 days:
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...He would get fired again, despite being constantly assigned since age 22.