31
The Academy / Re: Ranks & Promotions
« Last post by LordOther on June 29, 2025, 12:31:21 PM »1. Check out this post for the full description of what determines the required commander rank for a ship design.
Alright, this is helpful. After searching a bunch I found other things from the change list but Google never decided this post is worth showing me.
2. I couldn't find a specific list, but I believe it is based on either the unit size or the unit's HQ value. However, this isn't super important because you can override the default rank for a template and put whatever you want (use the "Change Rank" button). I tend to end up doing this for almost every design myself.
I've never gotten to the point in game where I've had weapons on ships or armies that weren't just suppression garrison. So since you're saying ground formation rank is pretty arbitrary since I can assign what I want now I'm curious if you or someone else could help me figure out what I should expect, or how you assign each rank.
For Naval and Ground
T8
T7
T6
T5
T4
T3
T2
T1
Like what do you try and have each rank do or correspond to, and when should I expect to use them in game cause I start the game with a T5 naval guy but don't think I'm gonna be using him anytime soon. I know I can do the game however I want but having a reference point I can build from and learn from makes this game more enjoyable for me.
And followup with ranks, what the hell are admin ratings. Like I have a rating 6 person but no rating 5 person. I had rating 3 person replace a rating 2 person as governor. I have basically equal amounts of rating 1-4. So what the hell is the difference.
3. Promotions are done "on-demand" and promotion score is used only as a tiebreaker for multiple commanders with the same primary skill for the role seeking a promotion. Otherwise promotion score has no bearing on what rank the officer is. There is a "cooling off" period of one year between promotions, so officers will not promote multiple times in a row. See this post for details.
On-demand being how promotion works makes so much sense now. Like I'm trying to use all the base game medals plus US medals and figuring out the score to give each and seeing how little promotion score the original spawns had made me think if I gave someone the medal of honor at what I had the score at someone would have bumped 2 ranks.