Officers being Duplicated When Reassigned

[blarglol]

Cpt. Zamboni (Average) was commanding the battleship Andrea Doria. I reassigned him from the officers window to command the new 1st Destroyer Division. He is now cloned and existing in both places at the same time, as a B CO, and as a divisional commander of destroyers...

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[akd]

My experience is that loading the save will resolve this, but it is confusing if you are trying to move multiple officers around.

[williammiller]

Thanks blarglol , it appears that officers list is not being updated properly.

[stele]

It a bit better than in .03 release like sometimes list in ships in service gets updated while sometimes not. I haven't catched exact trigger yet.

[sloanjh]

I'm running into this in 1.00.14, and I think I have a handle on it.  Best described through an example:

Captain (jg) Tom commands squadron DD 12.
Right-click on Tom shows CL Memphis and squadron DD13 both need commanders

If I assign Tom to DD13 then right-clicking on Bob shows DD12 as needing a commander (just had this happen, which was the last piece of data).
If I assign Tom to Memphis then right-clicking on Bob show *just* DD13 needed a commander.

Note that Tom hasn't been cloned - he's wearing two hats.  If I look on the officer's page, he's in command of Memphis; if I look on the Division Editor page he's in command of DD12.  If I try to send him to the pool for either one it warns me of a prestige hit.

So I *think* that the bug is that officer reassignment to a ship isn't checking for a squadron command when it asks "does the officer already have a command that he needs to be removed from" - it's only asking about a ship command.  From the OP's description, it sounds like it goes the other way too....

John

PS - So glad RTW3 is out!  Great to be back to it!!
PPS - I'm confused why the US "Commander" rank is called Captain (jg) in the game (and in the manual).  As far as I know, there's no such thing in the USN: O5 is a commander.  Perhaps there's some confusion with Lieutenant (JG) (an O2)?

[williammiller]

Thanks sloanjh for the report.

[blarglol]

This officer cloning issue is still present in the active game as of 1.00.49. Please see attached save and pics.

Also noted by me as far back as May 20th 2023: nws-online.proboards.com/thread/6835/new-bug-officers-reassigned-remain

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[blarglol]

It is Captain Caruel. He was moved from commanding the 1st CL Div to CA Vettor Pisani.

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[williammiller]

blarglol Thanks for the report on this, thought we had squashed that one. Fwd'ing this to Fredrik W .

[blarglol]

Jul 9, 2024 8:27:50 GMT -6 williammiller said:

blarglol Thanks for the report on this, thought we had squashed that one. Fwd'ing this to Fredrik W .

Perhaps it matters from which part of the UI the reassignment occurs? You will notice two of the officer are listed in the division view, but not in the actual officer tab. There are not two Cpt. Caruels in the overall roster.

Also I have only noticed it when division commanders are being reassigned, either to another division or to be a ship's CO.

[blarglol]

williammiller it's appearing again, 1.00.52. This one is interesting, because I did not reassign the division commander myself, the game did automatically. So you will see that "Cpt. Toscano (Average)" was cloned from his divisional commander post, and made the CO of an armored cruiser.

I know this is a bug because the officer tab doesn't list two officers with that name - which means the one who is now a ship CO is the "real" one, and that in reality the division commander shouldn't exist.

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[blarglol]

More pics

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[blarglol]

Another - you can see he is still commander of the 1st Light Cruiser Division

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[williammiller]

Thanks blarglol - we still need to fix that one, its on the current list.