Confusion about leader rank in editor

[DRG]

OK here's what I know for sure.. )..

.... in a test scenario I had already set up to test standoff attacks there was a coy of Iraqi tanks for targets. I opened the scenario from the Iraqi side and selected a tank. I clicked on the unit leader tab and then clicked on RANK and entered 713 and surprise, surprise, surprise.......'Arif Anwar was transformed to Sergeant Anwar and entering 720 makes him a Brig-General

NO it does not change his ratings but it does change the rank that is displayed but again.......changing his rank does NOTHING to his rating but 713 and 720 works as predicted but that is where the wheels fall off 740 makes that leader a "P.Plukov" which is only in two OOB's none of which have anything to do with OOB 7 but rather one or the other slovakias in OOB37 or OOB51 and I can say with some confidence that in the 18 years I've been doing this....this is the first time this has been brought up ( which is why the bug lay dormant for so long )

further digging shows 810 which I thought might give PLO ranks instead gives TaeRyong which is a South Korean Colonel......go figure how 713 gives a Brit Sergeant rank and 810 a South Korean Colonel......I'd love to see how the math works for that because 810 -713 = 97 and there are more than 97 individual ranks between Sergeant on the brit ranks list and the South Korean Colonel.

What should happen...(and I predict is will happen after the next patch)....is you should only be able to enter numbers between and including 0 and 10 and you will get the rank name FOR THAT OOB............entering 713 and getting Sergeant is a bug that in that one case actually fit a theory but 613 won't get you a French rank it gets you an Afghan rank

Fun

Don

[jp10]

Originally Posted by DRG

ff[/u][/i][/b] What should happen...(and I predict is will happen after the next patch)....is you should only be able to enter numbers between and including 0 and 10 and you will get the rank name FOR THAT OOB

But that would sink my boat,(and anyone's doing what I am doing, so to speak). I am using a RED OOB to represent a Soviet armed Caribbean force with an UK colony heritage that needs a UK rank structure to match the real life individual's names I am having as the leaders of their respective units. (I have my own personal reasons to be that picky about this scenario), Since it would not be possible to have every country in the world available, the ability to change ranks outside an OOB is useful to such an endeavor.

I truly did not want to cause a kerfuffle over this. SP is my all time favorite and plan to be cremated with my disk so I really appreciate you all for your consideration of my questions and quandaries.

[Mobhack]

Originally Posted by jp10

But that would sink my boat,(and anyone's doing what I am doing, so to speak). I am using a RED OOB to represent a Soviet armed Caribbean force with an UK colony heritage that needs a UK rank structure to match the real life individual's names I am having as the leaders of their respective units. (I have my own personal reasons to be that picky about this scenario), Since it would not be possible to have every country in the world available, the ability to change ranks outside an OOB is useful to such an endeavor.

I truly did not want to cause a kerfuffle over this. SP is my all time favorite and plan to be cremated with my disk so I really appreciate you all for your consideration of my questions and quandaries.

You just found a minor bug, which will be fixed.

The only way to change the leader rank name for an OOB is to include a new ranks txt file - but that would then change things for all uses of the OOB file unless the end user is willing to swap in different copies of the ranks text file for your particular scenario. Leader Rank is held as a number which points to the string - unlike leader names which are a character string field (initially loaded with one chosen from the leader name text file) that is editable in itself.

[DRG]

Originally Posted by jp10

But that would sink my boat,(and anyone's doing what I am doing, so to speak). I am using a RED OOB to represent a Soviet armed Caribbean force with an UK colony heritage that needs a UK rank structure to match the real life individual's names I am having as the leaders of their respective units. (I have my own personal reasons to be that picky about this scenario), Since it would not be possible to have every country in the world available, the ability to change ranks outside an OOB is useful to such an endeavor.

I truly did not want to cause a kerfuffle over this. SP is my all time favorite and plan to be cremated with my disk so I really appreciate you all for your consideration of my questions and quandaries.

Set up your scenario as the Brits then buy from the red OOB as captured..that puts brit ranks in the Red units.....then when you are all done open the scenario with scenhack and change all the ID tags from 7 to 43..that gives red ID's then change the Brit player to red and save again and you should have what you are looking for.......Birt ranks with Red OOB units and red OOB ID tags and V hexes