[http://sourceforge.net/p/ufoai/bugs/473 Item 473] imported from sourceforge.net tracker on 2013-01-28 18:21:29

basically if you hire new soldiers selectively, ie leaving some unhired nearer to the top of the list whilst hiring the ones below. then renaming will be screwed up

you could end up with a bunch of soldiers with identical names. and you might find the stats changing too (well.. it flips between different soldiers) as the game struggles to figure out which ones you are renaming and which one is actually hired

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equipment...

eg
it is possible to fully armor 16 soldiers with just 8 armors. (well just using armor as an example as it's the most obvious.. but it applies to all equipment)

what you do is to have 2 drop ships, 8 soldiers each and you effectively have double the equipment (well maybe not consumables like ammo.. after they are used up in missions)

obviously it doesn't have to be 8 soldiers... just soldiers in multiple ships.. incidentally one should be able to rename ships.

whilst it in a way makes sense to share equipment when they are all on base (as seen from the fact that once you chuck someone off an aircraft, they are totally unequipped) it falls flat when you have both aircraft in action (mind you.. i never did try doing that) then again, i've yet to see multiple missions on screen at the same time

i would suggest in future that equipment be linked with the individual soldier, rather than soldier in aircraft and that the interface for outfitting soldiers should be split from assigning soldiers to aircrafts

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there needs to be a scroll bar or some such on the soldier equipping screen.. either that or stack identical equipments. as you can easily have "too much" equipment and can't find the stuff that you actually want.
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====== nobody (2007-02-26 02:52:08) ======

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Soldier Rename:
Same with me, you have to hire all soldiers down to the one you want if you want to rename him. Else the not-hired Soldier, holding the same position in the Recruitment-screen as the hired in the Assignement-Screen will be renamend.
====== tlh2000 (2007-04-02 10:13:17) ======

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if this is still in 2.1 - please reopen
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