Promotions and Awards

[MaxenThor]

How do you determine who gets a promotion and/or an Award? I've high lighted different Officers or Crew members but often as not the program will not accept the Officer/Crew member I select. It will accept some but not others. Thanks.

[peanuts111358]

Good question. I have been wondering this same thing too.

[MaxenThor]

Bump.

[orangenee]

It relates to experience, once they reach a certain amount you can 'level' them up by promoting them.

[Tally Ho]

Originally Posted by MaxenThor

How do you determine who gets a promotion and/or an Award? I've high lighted different Officers or Crew members but often as not the program will not accept the Officer/Crew member I select. It will accept some but not others. Thanks.

I've never had a problem giving a medal to any crewmember, provided they hadn't already earned that same medal (I don't think multiple awards are allowed).

As for promotions, it IS a bit annoying as it doesn't seem to display the little 'Level Up' Icon on crewmembers who qualify on the promotions screen as it does on the regular roster screen. What you can do is look down at the amount of experience they've earned, where you'll see something like this:

1150/1150, meaning they've earned all the experience required to level them up. These are the only crew that can be promoted. Someone showing 876/1150 can't be promoted, no matter how great you thought that deck gun shot he made that hit the Mogami's magazine was. (OK, OK... if you're on the surface and the Mogami's anywhere in your horizon NONE of you are getting back to port... bad example... but I digress...)

Often, after a few patrols, you won't be able to promote everyone who deserves it (ah, the rigors of war!), so choose carefully, as a crewman who qualifies for promotion doesn't appear to earn further experience until they're promoted. Promoting Seamen to junior Petty Officers is particularly useful early on, because you can then give them an area of specialty, which gives a nice bump up to the relevant skills. After 3 successful patrols, my S-30's little crew had hardly an ordinary seaman aboard. Of course, S-30's now sunk so it's back to square one, but that's another story.

[AVGWarhawk]

Actually, if you press the award any of the crew that is eligable will be highlighted. In other words, the yellow trim around their picture will become brighter and these are the ones eligable for the promotion or medal.

[SteamWake]

One more point...

When dragging the award place the mouse cursor over the crew member you wish to award... NOT the award icon but the mouse pointer.

Took me a while to figure that out too.

[Krauter]

What I normally do for promotions is to give one to the crew members that were most instrumental in my success in the mission (ie, fish bowl crew made good kills, Ill give promotions to them, lots of sonar contacts, SO gets a promotion, etc ,etc)

For medals however, I normally accord these to my Senior officers, however deck watch, AA and DG gunners ALWAYS recieve purple hearts, asthese seem to be those who get wounded the most.

Hope this post gives some small hint of help?

With Regards,

Krauter

[MaxenThor]

Thanks for all your responses. I'll give them a try when I return to Port.

[Tieg]

I have a question then that is related to this subject...I have promoted almost everyone in my crew to Chief Petty Officer....do I just keep a bunch of Chiefs on board rather then rotate them off with other guys who are junior. I do much enjoy when Friday comes around and its time to field day the boat that a bunch of chiefs get on the deck and do some scrubbing

[JALU3]

Originally Posted by Tieg

I have a question then that is related to this subject...I have promoted almost everyone in my crew to Chief Petty Officer....do I just keep a bunch of Chiefs on board rather then rotate them off with other guys who are junior. I do much enjoy when Friday comes around and its time to field day the boat that a bunch of chiefs get on the deck and do some scrubbing

Well in real life, from my understanding everyone was rotated . . . and eventually the Commanding Officer as well . . . therefore, it would be very rare to have a boat full of khaki. It would be great if that was worked out in a new patch as an option . . . or as a mod . . . and you'd have to pay to keep personnel that have been tagged as to be rotated.

But it would be nice if the medals and other commendations (which there should be) actually effected the crewmembers stats.