Doomsday v1.1 : Does Auto-Promote work at all?

[blue emu]

Doomsday v1.1, Box set, 1936 campaign as Germany:

I've nearly doubled the size of my Air-Force... from 11 Squadrons to 20... and haven't yet received a single promotion.

... and yes, I DID turn it on.

Have any of you gotten Auto-Promote to work?

 

[Spruce]

Doomsday v1.1, Box set, 1936 campaign as Germany:

I've nearly doubled the size of my Air-Force... from 11 Squadrons to 20... and haven't yet received a single promotion.

... and yes, I DID turn it on.

Have any of you gotten Auto-Promote to work?

nope, seen that a few days ago. autopromotion values each month the skills and the amount of units a leader is commanding. But after months of waiting, even during war time, nothing happened to the Maj.Generals that where commanding 3 divisions. I've seen this issue with both my land an air forces. Prolly naval has the same issue,

and yes, I did turn it on.

 

[unmerged(53569)]

I mentioned this in an earlier post but was afraid to make it a major topic because I thought I was crazy. I don't think it is working, period.

I checked the leader ratios in the AI files and they are there and the same as in HOI II. I had germany up to 300+ total units and not a single auto-promo did I see, of course the historical years of leader promos are certainly throwing off my informal test. Someone needs to test it out like Disgustoid did in that one analysis he did eons ago, use Cuba or some other small country and mod them to have a ton of IC/Resources and change all leader skils to 3 and historic years to equal and see what happens.

 

[Alexander Seil]

Isn't auto-promotion essentially an exploit, anyway? I never use it...makes it too easy to get lots of good leaders for free.

 

[blue emu]

Well... if Auto-Promote doesn't work, and if nobody gains any experience except Generals leading battles and Air Leaders in dog-fights... we're all going to end up with zero-skill leaders running our armed forces.

 

[Codeman]

I noticed that Gunderan and Manstein both stay Mj generals and never get promoted even after their supposed to be promoted to Lt generals

 

[unmerged(49243)]

I think that autopromotions are just VERY rare in DD. Konev got promoted from General to Field Marshal, and a couple of other Generals too, but that's about all. None of my air commanders got promoted AFAIK.

 

[unmerged(46069)]

I've been playing USSR '36, and my army is now nearing 300 divs. Auto-promote has indeed worked for me so far, although I think there's something wrong with the ratios since with almost 300 divs, I've got only 3 Field Marshals, and maybe 6 Generals. Too few IMHO.

 

[blue emu]

I've been playing USSR '36, and my army is now nearing 300 divs. Auto-promote has indeed worked for me so far, although I think there's something wrong with the ratios since with almost 300 divs, I've got only 3 Field Marshals, and maybe 6 Generals. Too few IMHO.

Those might be historical-date promotions, rather than demand-driven Auto-Promotions.

 

[stnylan]

Playing the USA 1936 I've certainly had a few leaders promoted, and it seems to be related to the growth in my military, but I can't be sure. If so the ratios are far harsher than in HoI

 

[Alexander Seil]

Maybe it now auto-promotes based on experience? That would be more sensible...

 

[unmerged(53569)]

Well I just did a little informal test for DD using cuba, modified all their generals to rank 3 major general, set their promo dates to 1955 so nothing messed with the control, then I went to town.

Starting with 10 leaders all rank 3 and 0 divisions, by the time I had 100 units there were:

1 FM
3 Generals
2 Lt. Generals
4 Maj. Generals

So it works :wacko:

 

[unmerged(30087)]

Playing as germany, i sent some expeditionary corps(divisions really) to Italy... i checked back on them a week or so later (game time) and they were all promoted to FM.

 

[Myth]

autopromote works, but very strangely. I was playing last night, not a single air leader has been promoted, leaving all but one of my interceptor squadrons commanded by mj. generals.
land leaders did work, however. its just a lot slower. in '36-may '38, only two leaders were autopromoted: rundstedt to FM when I killed off blomberg and leeb to general to fill rundstedt's old general place. but then, in june and july '38, I guess the autopromote ai pulled itself together for a bit and promoted the majority of my panzer leaders who were overcommanding (not a word, I know ), plus a good few of the good infantry leaders. but then, it suddenly stopped with it.

I'm beginning to think that autopromote really only works as normal in war time, though I haven't yet had a war yet so there's no way I can really justify my (probably incorrect) theory.

 

[Myth]

observation:
you need a kind of overwhelming number of divisions-to-command capacity before autopromotion. but when it kicks in, it'll autopromote a dozen or so leaders in the space of a few days. I've yet to decide which system puts me in a better leader position for war as Germany, but currently I'm leaning toward the old system.

 

[AndersSchm]

I hope autopromote does some promoting for me soon. It is annoying to play as China and not have enough FMs!

 

[Zebedee]

Land commanders seem to be getting promotions alright (playing as Germany, nearly 1941 in 1936 GC). Naval autopromotions aren't happening whatsoever, neither are air autopromotions.

Only my first game but I've been keeping an eye on this because I tend to play with a relatively large air force and it's getting to the point where I'm using commanders I've never used before even for transport airfleets.

 

[petester]

It hasn't seemed to work so far for me ('36 - now is Apr 42), but then I have only been at war for a few months... so perhaps...

 

[Plutarch]

I did notice Rundsted was promoted from General to Field Marshal. But that was it. I couldn't find anyone else who was promoted by the time of Polish aggression.

 

[Spruce]

hm, perhaps the AI makes an evaluation on a formula where it takes into account the reduced skill and doesn't give the highest priority on command limit.

like a lt. General commanding 4 div's will not get promoted, while a 8 div's lt. General will get promoted (the malus in over command limit outweighs the reduced skill level) ...