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Author Topic: heroes/lords constantly getting "demoted"  (Read 714 times)

assimilateur

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heroes/lords constantly getting "demoted"
« on: January 30, 2011, 07:28:05 am »
Is it normal for an axelord, swordmaster or equivalent to change into a "regular" once every couple of weeks? I'm not talking about them displaying their old civilian job descriptions for a split second ("dwarf became a (...)"), this actually seems to happen more frequently and it certainly sticks for longer.
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Illanair

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Re: heroes/lords constantly getting "demoted"
« Reply #1 on: January 30, 2011, 07:36:56 am »
This happens every time the game saves or a season changes (where it also saves).

Basically all of my military dwarves will revert to civ status for a frame and then go back to being soldiers - lots of spam. ::)
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Re: heroes/lords constantly getting "demoted"
« Reply #2 on: January 30, 2011, 08:13:25 am »
they do get unhappy thoughts aswell.
so this can make your fort a powder keg.

which will have awesome results if 3 steel clad axe lords go bezerk.
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Re: heroes/lords constantly getting "demoted"
« Reply #3 on: January 30, 2011, 08:22:34 am »
The specific issue I'm asking about here is that in my case they revert not just to their civilian professions, they lose their hero/lord/master status and have to train for some time to get it back. Have you noticed something similar? Am I worrying about nothing?
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Re: heroes/lords constantly getting "demoted"
« Reply #4 on: January 30, 2011, 08:48:08 am »
ya when they lose the status they need to get 1 more skill level to get it back if I'm not mistaken.
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Re: heroes/lords constantly getting "demoted"
« Reply #5 on: January 30, 2011, 11:09:29 am »
Did you edit their schedule in any way? This happened to me when the squad is not assigned to training all the time (10 soldiers min all year round active/training). Seems to happen to marksdwarfs somewhat more often too.
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Re: heroes/lords constantly getting "demoted"
« Reply #6 on: January 30, 2011, 11:12:03 am »
Right now I've only got one full ten-man squad deployed the whole year. What I edited about the schedule was ordering them to sleep in the barracks.
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Re: heroes/lords constantly getting "demoted"
« Reply #7 on: January 30, 2011, 05:02:05 pm »
Yeah, it's a bug.  They lose their elite status whenever they go off-duty (including, annoyingly, when they "bounce" off-duty at random month-ends).  They will regain it when they gain another level (in anything, including social skills).

Making any change whatsoever to the current month's schedule seems to make the squad in question go off-duty for the rest of the (in-game) day, at least that's what I've observed.
« Last Edit: January 30, 2011, 05:14:37 pm by Inari »
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Re: heroes/lords constantly getting "demoted"
« Reply #8 on: January 31, 2011, 09:08:45 am »
That sucks when it comes to aesthetics, but as long as that doesn't have any serious consequences I guess I can live with that. The fact that it supposedly clears all job assignments doesn't bother me because they stay on duty the whole year.
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