Boarding not using the right skilled marines for the job?

[Deathifier]

Hi,

Problem: Game seems to be using the wrong marines during hull cutting and hacking attempts.

Current active marine crew (Fight/Eng/Mech/Hack):
Elmanckarsat (4/0/5/2) / (7/0/0/7/0/21/0)
Muli Wu (5/2/5/1) / (7/7/3/5/7/17/3)
Taimanckotsat (4/1/0/4) / (5/0/1/6/0/8/0)
Uckmankagtek (4/0/4/0) / (7/7/1/6/7/10/1)
Val Silarne (5/3/2/2) / (7/1/9/4/1/18/8)

(The second set of numbers is:
Successful boards
Ships hacked
Entry attempts (I think this is hull cutting)
Attempted boarding ops
Hacking attempts
Training
Ships entered)

According to the game I've boarded 9 ships.
One of those was in the Terran plot (the M6), which I think Val boarded though I'm not sure.
Another was in the Goner plot, where I used barely trained expendables so none of the above were involved.

Of the other 7 ships one was a Paranid TL, during which my two level 5 hackers died.
On the first TM I boarded I think I lost one of the replacement hackers.
The other 5 boarding ops (all TM's) were done by the group above.
4 boardings have been by Pod (inc. the TL), 3 by space walk, and each time all the marines have made it to the ship - no deaths in transit, no accidental pickups.

Some examples of odd behaviour:
Uckmankagtek has 7 attempts at hacking, but he has NO hacking skill.
He was also one of the replacements, and has only boarded 6 ships unless he was involved in the Terran boarding somehow (I don't think so, since I used the provided marines and I think they were all Argon).

Muli Wu also has 7 attempts at hacking, but only 1 star.

The replacement hacker, Taimanckotsat, hasn't done a thing!

Val Silarne has been making every hull cutting attempt even though Elmanckarsat and Muli have been with him.

Elmanckarsat hasn't been doing anything and it looks like the game has scattered hull cutting attempts amongst almost everyone else instead.


The manual, and posts here on the forums, state that the top two people are used for the various attempts - yet the game seems to be using either random people, or the least skilled people?

The other numbers also do not add up properly in various instances (e.g. Val's 9 boarding attempts, when the most he could be on was 8).

All the marines are from 1.2.1 however all the boarding attempts (except Terran) have been done in 1.3 and I don't have any saved games older than my most recent gaming session (today) to see how the numbers have developed over time.

- Deathifier

[oldrosestereo]

Same problem here.
Seems to be picking lowest skilled Marine to attempt entry, or hacking, almost each attempt.