Have been playing some testgames 10+ years with realistic promotions set to on and this does not seem to work as I thought.
For Naval Officers ranks 1-3 this works fine and I have the number of Captains (R3) as I should (one third of R2). However I have not yet seen a promotion to Commodore (R4) even though I have 5 Captains and only 1 Commodore for a long time.
I would have thought that once I have 3 or maybe 4 Captains and only 1 Commodore a Captain would get promoted? Or is there some additional requirement involved?
An additional question: In the beginning of the game I seem to have a critical shortage of R2 and R3 Naval Officers for my military ships. Therefore I want to keep as many R1 (Lieutenant Commanders) as possible at the bottom of the pyramid. Therefore I am dreading the early retirement of Lieutenant Commanders due to lack of assignment and have created some empty Task Forces to keep my Junior R1s in training. Is this to be expected?