Posted by: Rich.h
« on: February 10, 2021, 11:20:39 AM »Meanwhile, I have ten academies on my planet.
This is your problem. The required rank to command an academy is equal to the number/level of academy installations. Using the UK rank scheme for example this would mean you need a LCDR to command a level 1 academy, CDR for level 2, and so on. I believe most rank schemes only go up to R9, and wouldn't even have a rank to command a level 10 academy by default! For scientists the "rank" is their admin skill divided by 5, and for civ admins it is simply their admin rating.
I recommend shipping several of your academies offworld, which will also let you multiply-specialize them or specialize them more precisely (e.g. if you have two academies led by scientists, one might be specced to generate C&P specialists and another to produce Logistics specialists).
This was another reason why I spread mine around along with the RP factor. At one point I have a level 10 academy on Earth yet I had no leaders who could work there, nor would I ever have as it's rank requirments went beyond the maximum possible.