Make a new Leader take over as Head of Research?

[Koby]

Have 3.8.whatever but not Paragons. Got a new leader from Curators.

[Ryika]

Go to the council view and click on the leader portrait.

[Koby]

Thank you Ryika, You were right. I had thought I'd tried that, Impressive image background.

[Pooplets9000]

The only person I saw was the president, and I couldn't select him as the Head of Research. Elected a scientist as president. Still cant select him as head of research. What am I missing? I'm not using any DLC. I have a Representative Democracy.

[Garatgh Deloi]

Originally posted by Pooplets9000:

The only person I saw was the president, and I couldn't select him as the Head of Research. Elected a scientist as president. Still cant select him as head of research. What am I missing? I'm not using any DLC.

It should look like this (but without the unlock'able slots at the sides): https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3077848220
The person on the right is the head of science.


If you are playing as a gestalt empire (hive or machine) it instead looks something like this (they don't have a traditional council): https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3077849337

[Kufesska]

Originally posted by Pooplets9000:

The only person I saw was the president, and I couldn't select him as the Head of Research. Elected a scientist as president. Still cant select him as head of research. What am I missing? I'm not using any DLC.

and if by president you mean your empire's ruler - you can't select him to any other position

[Pooplets9000]

I play Stellaris in GOG, but not on Steam, so the screenshot may not display as well.
All I can see is this.
Screenshot below.

https://app.gemoo.com/share/image-annotation/581393427189981184?codeId=v6glBaz31Bz4Q&origin=screenshotuploader&card=581393426539864064

[Pooplets9000]

I've been playing for hours, and still haven't seen a way to add a Head of Research. I can't be the only one with this issue.

[Elitewrecker PT]

Does GOG have a way to verify if the files of an installation are all correct?

[corisai]

Seems either a mod issue or your savefile get corrupted somehow (pre 3.8 game)?

Try to start a new game with a default empire (non-gestalt) - what you will see in council? You should see 3 jobs - empire leader, head of research and minister of defense.

[Pooplets9000]

The problem got resolved. I don't really know how. But I figured I'd post what I observed.
It's possible that an update was required, as was mentioned. Maybe my game updated in the background while I was playing? Not sure.
What I noticed, was instead of showing a leader cap at the top of my screen, after a while, it was replaced with the number of emissaries I had. And I noticed that when I looked at my leaders, I now had a cap on how many OF EACH TYPE I could have. I liked that better.
I also noticed that my science ships could no longer assist with research, but rather, I had to assign scientists as governors to keep them busy. That sounds like an update issue to me.
I hope this helps anyone experiencing the issue I had.

[Chthonic Guardian]

I had an issue where I could not assign my best scientist as head researcher when my first HR died. The first time I could not do it, but I was able to assign another Scientist though. Turns out the one I wanted was on a special project and when he finished that I could then assign him as head researcher.
If that helps anyone.

[Elitewrecker PT]

Originally posted by Pooplets9000:

The problem got resolved. I don't really know how. But I figured I'd post what I observed.
It's possible that an update was required, as was mentioned. Maybe my game updated in the background while I was playing? Not sure.
What I noticed, was instead of showing a leader cap at the top of my screen, after a while, it was replaced with the number of emissaries I had. And I noticed that when I looked at my leaders, I now had a cap on how many OF EACH TYPE I could have. I liked that better.
I also noticed that my science ships could no longer assist with research, but rather, I had to assign scientists as governors to keep them busy. That sounds like an update issue to me.
I hope this helps anyone experiencing the issue I had.

That's the 3.10 update, which was on the 16th

[Naatok]

Cannot replace head of research after an anomaly event. The HoR was on the science ship investigating the anomaly. Ship got trapped and I had to send another science ship to rescue. He disappeared from HoR in Council. I didn't want the position empty (-25% research) so I put another scientist in. Once his ship was rescued and he was back to work (was on to survey a new system), I was able to remove the 'interim' head of research, but could not put my former head back into the position. His portrait had the green check mark next to it, supposedly indicating he can take the position, but nope.
Very lame bug.