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General FreeSpace => FreeSpace Discussion => Topic started by: Hippo on December 28, 2004, 06:43:34 pm

Title: Fastest promotion i've ever gotten...
Post by: Hippo on December 28, 2004, 06:43:34 pm
Ok, FSPort 2.3, Medium, Black Omega. The previous mission (with the rosetta), i had just gotten a double ace, promotion to Lt. Commander, AND the medal for saving both Transports and the rosetta. (Most cramped award window i've ever seen)... So i go through black omega... Both transports make it out, and apparently fighters and bombers were all destroyed... So we pound, and pound, and pound, and the Anvil is destroyed. Not too hard. So i press F4 as i'm jumping out, and I see that i got the Anvil kill (68%)... So i go the the debreif, and I'm suddenly promoted to a Commander! So, apparently the difficulty and the Anvil points were enough to promote me an entire rank...


Meh, just thought you'd find this interesting...
Title: Fastest promotion i've ever gotten...
Post by: Nuclear1 on December 28, 2004, 08:14:53 pm
Nice. What difficulty were you playing it on? It definitely does sound like a possibility that it would've happened, depending on how hard the mission was set at.
Title: Fastest promotion i've ever gotten...
Post by: Hippo on December 28, 2004, 08:17:02 pm
Medium

I also got 2 Thoths, and 2 Horus's, for a decent amount of pointage... It'd be interesting to find out the difficulty to point ratio...
Title: Fastest promotion i've ever gotten...
Post by: Nuclear1 on December 28, 2004, 08:18:05 pm
Medium? Seriously? I would've suspected Hard... but if you say it did, I believe you anyway. :nod:

Congrats anyway ;)
Title: Fastest promotion i've ever gotten...
Post by: Hippo on December 28, 2004, 08:20:41 pm
Actually, I got 26 kills by the end of the Rosetta mission, so that DEFINATELY helps... So I giess its actually:
30ish fighters + Typhoon > Commander points - Lt Commander points... :p

(http://sectorgame.com/ahtw/fpdb/woah.jpg)
Title: Fastest promotion i've ever gotten...
Post by: FireCrack on December 28, 2004, 09:39:02 pm
Playing freespace 2 on hard last time i never got above ensign


"This is Ensign FireCrack, squadron leader of the 70'th Blue Lions"
Title: Fastest promotion i've ever gotten...
Post by: Nuclear1 on December 29, 2004, 12:33:40 am
:wtf:

Did you just sit back and not do jack squat? Even on Easy, I can get above ensign by just completing objectives and killing bigger ships alone. On Hard, I would expect someone to be at Lt. Cmdr at least.
Title: Re: Fastest promotion i've ever gotten...
Post by: Goober5000 on December 29, 2004, 09:38:34 am
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Originally posted by Hippo
Ok, FSPort 2.3, Medium, Black Omega. The previous mission (with the rosetta), i had just gotten a double ace, promotion to Lt. Commander, AND the medal for saving both Transports and the rosetta. (Most cramped award window i've ever seen)
Nice!  I've wondered what that would look like... was never been able to manage it myself. :)
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So, apparently the difficulty and the Anvil points were enough to promote me an entire rank...
Or it could be that that mission includes a grant-promotion sexp...

*runs away*
Title: Fastest promotion i've ever gotten...
Post by: Hippo on December 29, 2004, 09:47:04 am
... You'd better be kidding...


*opens VPView*


*extracts mission*


*opens mission*


*stares in disbeleif*


GAH!
(http://sectorgame.com/ahtw/fpdb/anvil.jpg)


STOP CHANGNG THE CAMPAIGN! :mad:
Title: Fastest promotion i've ever gotten...
Post by: Nuclear1 on December 29, 2004, 10:59:05 am
:lol: I KNEW it was too good to be tru--

::is swiftly smote by Hippo::
Title: Fastest promotion i've ever gotten...
Post by: Goober5000 on December 29, 2004, 11:27:52 am
It's in the original FS1 mission too. :p

We're going to reconvert all the missions when we release 2.4 to avoid any additions or deletions of different stuff.  That's one reason it's taking so long.
Title: Fastest promotion i've ever gotten...
Post by: Hippo on December 29, 2004, 12:07:12 pm
Hm... never noticed that... You have my apologies then :p
Title: Fastest promotion i've ever gotten...
Post by: Andreas on December 29, 2004, 12:07:59 pm
I never had any problems with the grant-promotion-thing in FS1. After all, I would expect to get promoted for saving the humanity and all :p
Title: Fastest promotion i've ever gotten...
Post by: Goober5000 on December 29, 2004, 03:13:36 pm
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Originally posted by Hippo
Hm... never noticed that... You have my apologies then :p
Apology accepted. :)
Title: Fastest promotion i've ever gotten...
Post by: pecenipicek on December 29, 2004, 03:27:31 pm
:lol:
Title: Fastest promotion i've ever gotten...
Post by: Hippo on December 29, 2004, 03:30:41 pm
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Originally posted by pecenipicek
:lol:



:doubt: At least I admit when I'm wrong... :blah:
Title: Fastest promotion i've ever gotten...
Post by: Nuclear1 on December 29, 2004, 04:57:49 pm
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Originally posted by Hippo



:doubt: At least I admit when I'm wrong... :blah:


However sarcastically :p

[ignorance cover]And that grant-promotion thing... that was already good and well known. I was just hiding my foreknowledge from you so you could gloat about it. ;) [/ignorance cover]
Title: Fastest promotion i've ever gotten...
Post by: Hippo on December 30, 2004, 06:52:15 am
heh... I honestly never noticed it... I guess i always asumed that a Typhoon kill was enough to push me over... And the countless times i played the Main cmapaign, i never noticed it...
Title: Fastest promotion i've ever gotten...
Post by: Fergus on December 30, 2004, 08:16:46 am
This is Alpha 1 were talking about, he/she kills destroyers everytime he/she breaths out, if the destruction of one simple destroyer was enough he/she would be the grand supreme allied commander.