Unit promotion bug as Aztec

[snoochems]

I imagine you would never see this bug in a regular game, but it's a bug nonetheless.

I was fooling around with fire-tuner, and gave my starting Jaguar (playing as aztec's) 5000 xp. It was able to get every promotion possible, with some xp still up my sleeve.

I killed a barbarian unit, and sustained 2 damage. As a Jaguar though, I regained 2 health. For those unable to do the math, I was back to full health. But because I had for a brief moment been under full health, the "heal" promotion was made to me, and the flag for "Promote Unit" was raised. But the "heal" promotion wasn't available anymore, as I was once again at full health. I was not able to continue the game due to the default rules required me to promote my unit...

Hey, I was only fooling around, so no biggy. But it *could* be possible that a Jaguar could be upgraded throughout a game till mech inf, and get all the promotions along the way. I guess if that did happen, you could always continue the game by deleting the unit... but that would suck.

 

[Babri]

This bug sounds very similar to the policies bug where you are forced to open a conflicting tree in order to continue the game.

 

[Thry]

Doesn't matter, getting to 5000 xp is nigh-impossible in the current state of the game. And you used an outside tool to mod your unit, so yeah.

 

[TPQ]

Yep. Seems like another example of how little time the dev's put into the later stages of the game. If it'd be thought-through (or play-tested) thoroughly these issues (polices/XP) would of been corrected before the game shipped.

Still, the late game needs more work overall and I'm sure they'll patch these issues out eventually. As long as they can keep selling DLC, they'll keep patching I'd guess.

 

[Thry]

Yep. Seems like another example of how little time the dev's put into the later stages of the game. If it'd be thought-through (or play-tested) thoroughly these issues (polices/XP) would of been corrected before the game shipped.

Still, the late game needs more work overall and I'm sure they'll patch these issues out eventually. As long as they can keep selling DLC, they'll keep patching I'd guess.

It's 5000 xp. You can't use that as an argument for how the game was rushed. It's like saying " Hey, I used this cheat program to level-up my character past the max level! But now the game broke! This shows that the devs didn't play-test things! "

 

[wcbarney]

... I killed a barbarian unit, and sustained 2 damage. As a Jaguar though, I regained 2 health. For those unable to do the math, I was back to full health. But because I had for a brief moment been under full health, the "heal" promotion was made to me, and the flag for "Promote Unit" was raised. But the "heal" promotion wasn't available anymore, as I was once again at full health. I was not able to continue the game due to the default rules required me to promote my unit ... you could always continue the game by deleting the unit... but that would suck.

Before you start the game, you should select "Allow Promotion Saving" from the Advanced Setup menu. Then, you can promote at will, or save your promotions 'til your Jags are MIs.

 

[vexing]

Hey, I was only fooling around, so no biggy. But it *could* be possible that a Jaguar could be upgraded throughout a game till mech inf, and get all the promotions along the way. I guess if that did happen, you could always continue the game by deleting the unit... but that would suck.

it's definitely possible in marathon games to get all promotions for a unit.
this should be in bug reports.