What do they mean?
 

I've noticed sometimes when i'm on the crew screen that there are little Golden Arrows next to some of the crew portraits.

What do these arrows mean? Anyone know?

Thanks :)

Good question..I was wondering myself...looks as if we may learn together.

Does anyone know???

I believe they mean that the crew member has just gone up a level. When I look at the crew members with arrows they always have very little xp towards the next level.

aren't it special skills?

depends where they are. Skills bottom right hand corner of crewman's picture, level up arrows bottom right hand corner

Available for promotion :hmm:

The golden arrows are indicating that a crewmember has been promoted recently.:know:

How is that possible when I haven't promoted any of them?? As its a first patrol?? :88)

the game will automaticly promote from ranks 1-3, 4-6, 7-9. you will have to promote to get a guy at rank 3 to rank 4, and so forth. However if your running 1.5 it works a little differntly and you manually promote everybody except the chiefs

asked many times
can chiefs be promoted??
mine dont gain exp EVER.

:-? ...Well...I dunno...yesterday I took a gander at the crew screen, in the middle of a patrol, and suddenly there were arrows eveywhere...less than 10 minutes later they were all gone...those arrows were definitely not there when I left port....because of this very thread, I checked. They showed up while on patrol and went away while on patrol. Probably if I had not been paying attention I wouldn't have noticed them at all.


If they mean any of the things as stated above I can't see the reason they came and went like that...:nope:

For me the jury is still out on this one....:hmm:

I have promoted chief petty officers to comissioned officer rank....maybe a mod is hindering your crew's promotions.

I think it means that they had to go to the head:hmm:

Nope!, They are currently singing the long version of Stairway to Heaven that is why the arrow points UP.

I think you're on to something. I wonder what happens if they sing "Highway to Hell"? A red arrow pointing downwards?

Seriously, someone please solve this mystery before another joke is hatched:arrgh!:

They are in the process of promotion while on patrol is the answer. Wait 36-48 hours, they get promoted to a better class of specialization within their rank of specialty has been my observation.

They are promoted at sea automatically. 1-3, 4-6, 5-7 etc... You promote every fourth position in harbor.

If you watch, as their experience is gained, they will go from seaman (1) up to seaman (3) (2500/2500) then you will be able to promote to 4 when your in harbor.

Thanks, ML, glad that's all cleared up now.:up: