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Skill and rank increases!

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Esli:
Do skills increase as you fire, so that you could fire at nothing and gain sniper skills?
Also, how does soldier's rank increase? My most active soldiers (the ones with the highest kill counts!) don't seem to gain ranks as quickly as the runner ups. How's that work?

Elbenfreund:
im not sure about the skill increase but afaik promotion isn't fully implemented yet. the suprising promotion priority comes from the fact that your soldiers "mind" skill is quite important. He becomes a leader for his mental stability more than for the daily blood work ;)

Anderskorn:
^^ that makes a LOT of sence.  


You never want to go into battle with a leader that has killed 5 times more  guys than everyone else but cant handle it if half his squad gets waisted in one turn.  


 To this end.....  i would like to say that in my X-com days, i would ALWAYS pick out ONE guy that had a rediculous mind rating and used him till he had like 100 kills....  (at this piont i would like to point out that quick save and quick load actualy worked in the x-com game IN MISSION)  Sooooo yeah... i cheated a LOT during the first 30ish missions in my old x-com days.... just to get one super bad ass leader that spit nails and kicked ass like it was his job from birth.    8)  :twisted:

Opeth666:
With regards to skill increases, I tested it, and it seems each skill goes up by one point per mission.  It doesn't matter which weapon you used, all skills gain a point.  As to rank, I have one guy who gained 3 ranks, but none of the others gained a single rank.  The successful guy has the highest mind skill, I think.

Esli:
@opeth
ya, i actually noticed that myself after i started taking notes. at the same time, i've installed all the latest patches hehe.
none of my guys have had a rank increase yet and we've just defended the base from alien invasion :o

hehe, did rank even do anything in x-com?

-- oh, and now i've beaten the game for my first time. none of my guys got a rank upgrade :(

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