Question About manning guns

[frau kaleun]

Originally Posted by Collin Dougherty

Yeah there capable all right...
Cpable of skrewing **** upp...

Are you using Commander? If so, add a deck gun qualification to your Watch Officer next time you're in base. Or I assume you can do it in the game's crew management screen, altho I've never tried.

You can also give one to any POs who make up the deck gun crew, but in my experience having a WO on the bridge who is qualified for the deck gun maxes out the efficiency of the deck gun station no matter who is manning it.

[Frontier359]

Originally Posted by frau kaleun

...in my experience having a WO on the bridge who is qualified for the deck gun maxes out the efficiency of the deck gun station no matter who is manning it.

That.

[Collin Dougherty]

One more question.
If your with a crewman for a long time, say someone low ranked like a matrosengrefeighter, they can eventually become an officer if you keep promoting them in commander? (yeah its a dumb question but thats how i role ^_^)

[Bakkels]

Yep. I do it all the time. Find it more fun to have a matrosenthingamieguy build his own career aboard my ship instead of recruiting a top-officer. Plus, it doesn't cost me any renown.

[Gargamel]

To be honest Colin, I gotta drop a RTFM here.

A lot of the questions you have been asking are covered in the GWX manual that is included with the install. I reread it last week just for S&G's.

It's an excellent read, and you are missing out on a lot by not reading it cover to cover (The middle 300 pages or so are skimmable, as they are mainly tech details.)

Incase you don't understand RTFM?

[Collin Dougherty]

*Facepalm*
I tried it already!!!
It takes like an F'n hour to load!and when it does load its just a bunch of random letters & numbers.
The file i Opend is called Manual_V3.0._final.

[Tessa]

Originally Posted by Collin Dougherty

One more question.
If your with a crewman for a long time, say someone low ranked like a matrosengrefeighter, they can eventually become an officer if you keep promoting them in commander? (yeah its a dumb question but thats how i role ^_^)

(Using the US method of denotaing rank here to try and keep things as simple as possible within the scope of the question)

For an E-1 seaman to become an O-1 officer it can't be done entirely through commander, it will require a few promotions ingame at specific spots.

To go from a seaman to a PO (E-3 to a E-4) you'll need to promote the E-3 sailor using an ingame promotion that you get at the end of your patrol. Using SHC it will give you an error that you can't promote the crewman to that rank. Once your sailor is now a PO, you can use SHC again if you choose for the promotions until he becomes a CPO (E-6).

Now to promote the CPO to an officer you must first promote him to a Fanrich Z. s (Easiest way to describe their position is an officer candidate; much like an OCS officer that hasn't completed his training yet and given his commission). To promote from a CPO to a Fanrich requires an ingame promotion as well. Until you get promoted to Leutnant you aren't a full officer per se, once you get the promotion you are considered an O-1 and treated (and expected to perform like) an officer.

Problem is that the game doesn't allow for officer candidates (Fanrich) to be part of the normal crew and they count against your maximum officer limit for the ship - when in reality these crewmen while experienced and adept are not ready to completely fill the position of officer and shouldn't really be counted as one. Also, no matter how bad you might want to promote someone or make them an officer, they still have to gain the necessary experience in order to make the cut for the ingame promotions (no way around that one, your men gotta earn their way) in order to become an officer which I believe requires 400 xp in order to become a Fanrich Z. s.

[desirableroasted]

Originally Posted by Tessa

To go from a seaman to a PO (E-3 to a E-4) you'll need to promote the E-3 sailor using an ingame promotion that you get at the end of your patrol.

Tessa, clarify for me, as I have never made this work (but have only tried twice, and not recently). To promote from seaman to PO, and from PO to Officer, these conditions must be met:

• Space must be available in the next higher class (which means you would have to sail with the vacancy from the beginning of the patrol).
• The candidate must have the XP to make rate.
• The patrol must have been successful enough for the AI to award you promotions.

Do I have that right?