Posted by: sloanjh
« on: December 08, 2007, 04:54:36 PM »Quote from: "SteveAlt"
This auto-assignment is using the "Assign Anywhere" option, on the assumption that staff officers would move commanders around as necessary. Otherwise, players would have to micromanagement where they sent their ships when a new commander was due and that would defeat the object of auto-assignment.
Yeah - I realized that after I read the discussion in the other thread. Sorry about that - I'd just gotten home and started posting before getting fully caught up
That being said, could you set the F4 screen up so that the "Planet" Location change is a pulldown if the "Assign Anywhere" box is checked? This would simulate being able to tell the staff "I want this officer moved here" without micro-managing the routing. (If you don't want all of your officers on one planet, for example, or if they're piling up on an obscure border outpost.)
One more suggestion - you might want to have a "Maximum Over-Rank" parameter (don't have a better name) that will prevent an officer being too highly ranked for his position (e.g. a Full Admiral commanding a 3000 ton R1 picket). If this parameter were +2 (which seems reasonable to me), then only R3, R4, and R5 would be eligible for an R3 command through auto-assignment. I wouldn't check this for manual assignment (the Kirk factor); not sure if it's worth making it tunable like the tour length or not.
Thanks,
John