[1.18] Leveling Marine Officers doesn't work

kayahr · Post by **kayahr** » Tue, 3. Dec 13, 19:16

Hi,

I think I found another bug... (Yay...): I'm trying to give a marine officer some boarding experience. Naturally I do this by boarding ships. Now after my last boarding operation my marine officer looks like this:

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So "Progress to Next Level" is now at 104% while boarding experience is still two stars as before. I would expect that the boarding experience would be three stars now and level progress would be down to 4%. But no, the game has a different opinion about that.

So what's the bug here? Is marine officer leveling broken or is the game simply failing in teaching me how leveling actually works? Maybe I have to search for a "marine officer trainer" where I can "pay" the 104% to buy a "star"?

Oh, and by the way: Why are the marines at the bottom all listed as "Unknown"? Do I have to "identify" them by some silly minigame? Don't think so. So I guess this is another bug...

Here is the savegame. Hope it helps if this is a bug.

imminentepicfail · Post by **imminentepicfail** » Wed, 4. Dec 13, 00:27

It seems that for every star they need 100% more.
So for two stars they need 200%, for 3 stars 300% and 5 stars 500%

Little confusing but makes sense in the way that every level needs more experience than previous.
A cosmetic "bug" that is most likely to be fixed in future as it's not gamebreaking.

kayahr · Post by **kayahr** » Wed, 4. Dec 13, 07:09

imminentepicfail wrote:Little confusing but makes sense in the way that every level needs more experience than previous.

No, that absolutely makes no sense. A "progress" goes from 0% to 100%. Reaching this 100% can take more time in later levels but it must still be 100%. It makes no sense to display a percent value when the player can't know the max value. So if you are right then the game should display "104/200" instead of 100%. But my guess is that this is a bug and leveling doesn't work. Yeah, I know there are more important bugs right now. But it is still a bug.

But in the end it really doesn't matter. This leveling is completely pointless anyway because it is so damn easy to directly buy a marine officer with a higher boarding experience. So the more important problem in this game is "balancing".

And I wonder what the difference is anyway. Haven't seen a difference between this two-star officer and the four-star officer I have now.

kasnavada · Post by **kasnavada** » Wed, 4. Dec 13, 08:46

According to this thread :

http://forum.egosoft.com/viewtopic.php?t=351609

Marines are currently worth 1, 2, 3 depending on their experience and the total "marine" worth is multiplied by 1+officer level.

So, with a marine officer at 2 and some "high" level marines, you should have about 200 "boarding points", enough to cap anything in the game so far.

As for why they are unknown, the description in the encyclopedia is bugged. My guess is that they intended to create a complete marine list by race (with decriptions) and since only humans are coded in the game, it's on the to-do list...