Rank limitation/correction

[KaleunMarco]

Originally Posted by Arlo

Me too. Having switched back to TMO for now I am understanding slight differences more and more. I love TMO's uniforms. They are more authentic. And it might be more challenging (although I sunk over 50k tons on my second patrol - at this rate I'll catch up to and surpass Mush).

The problem I'm running into here is that I'm unable to promote any of the crew, at all. At first I thought that my first patrol (no medal/little earned renown) was preventing me from promos. It ends up that it is just the PO limit keeping promos from happening. In FoTRSu I was given more (perhaps it was an additional mod, now that I think about it - I remember one that said it allowed more POs onboard).
This is what the second patrol roster looked like (with plenty of renown):
I'll be looking for the mod that opens up more promos again.

Still having fun, however.

On this patrol I sank a target while being harassed from the air and ran across a decent sized escorted convoy with only 2 cuties left (I tried to lure the escorts into running for me so I could use them on them then gun a ship or two but they seemed unable to. Eventually I ended up close - 800 yds- to a large troop ship and released both cuties and dived. They sank it and I got away).

Arlo & Flaminus,

for the same reasons that i explained above on crew composition, it difficult to build a mod for promotions because it (the correction mod) would have to be modified every time the Mega-mod changed. no thanks.

do not despair!

you can change the promotions count and you do not need a mod to do so.

while you are in port, between missions, browse to your save folder and look for the file named CareerTrack.UPC. Make a copy of it just in case. (select the file, ctrl+c then ctrl+v will do the trick) then open it with Notepad. (press the start button and start typing n-o-t) somewhere in the first set of parameters you will see a line that reads: CREWMEMBERSCURRENTPROMOTIONREPOSITORY=
change the number that follows the equal sign to the number of promotions that you need and, voila. close and save and do not change anything else in that file. when you re-load that mission, you will see the promotions available for you to assign to your valiant crew.
you shouldnt have any problems, but i will be around if you do.