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Posted by: sloanjh
« on: October 18, 2011, 10:12:52 PM »

Quote from: LizardSF on October 18, 2011, 02:49:39 PM
What obvious trick am I missing?

I set my reassignment time cycle to 3 years, then every cycle make sure to go through and assign all the unassigned ones to a single ship, in sequence.

This is because I like to use auto-assign and realistic promotions, but don't want up-or-out.  Unfortunately, up-or-out can't be turned off independently.

John

PS - Yes, this is a pain late in the game when I've got tons of officers.
Posted by: Girlinhat
« on: October 18, 2011, 09:44:28 PM »

You can also promote an officer at any time on the officer screen, and make them R2.
Posted by: LizardSF
« on: October 18, 2011, 03:07:28 PM »

Ah. Thank you. Easy enough to do...
Posted by: Steve Walmsley
« on: October 18, 2011, 03:05:30 PM »

Quote from: LizardSF on October 18, 2011, 02:49:39 PM
In my prior game, I had 30 or 40 R1 officers and about 12 R2 officers. All of my ships needed R2 minimum. This led to the computer dismissing a lot of promising R1 from service, and since they never got promoted to R2, due to my empire not issuing promotions for "Sitting on your ass", I had many ships with no R2 assigned commanders and no way to get the R1s to do anything to get promoted.

What obvious trick am I missing?

How do I build ships for R1s to command?

You can change the rank which is required for a ship. Look at the top left of the "DAC / Rank / Info" tab of the class window.

Steve
Posted by: LizardSF
« on: October 18, 2011, 02:49:39 PM »

In my prior game, I had 30 or 40 R1 officers and about 12 R2 officers. All of my ships needed R2 minimum. This led to the computer dismissing a lot of promising R1 from service, and since they never got promoted to R2, due to my empire not issuing promotions for "Sitting on your ass", I had many ships with no R2 assigned commanders and no way to get the R1s to do anything to get promoted.

What obvious trick am I missing?

How do I build ships for R1s to command?