Official News page 6

AUTO-PROMOTE AIN'T GONNA HAPPEN

by Hazed

One of the things that has been lurking on Alan's list of things to do is to code the auto-promote facility for Planet Owners, so that when you have done a certain number of builds, you get promoted to the next rank automatically even if you don't use the 'PROMOTE' command.

Players often get confused about whether this feature is in the game or not. Well, it isn't, and now the decision has been taken that it's not going to be added. So it's off Alan's worklist for good.

The reason for the deletion is that it's not really necessary any more. When builds were first planned, the worry was that Founders would stay at that level while doing loads of builds, without promoting to the next rank where things get more difficult as dissatisfaction kicks in. But that hasn't happened, so we don't need to code anything to prevent it. So for once, Alan's worklist has got shorter at a stroke of the pen - without him actually having to do any work.

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