Cant recruit specialists

[AmmonJerro]

Hi, i have finished all missions but i cant get mechatronics specialist when i go back and revisit, i know where he is, i scan him, i fulton, but he never gets added to my research or to my FOB.

[lazy skunk]

start mission, go directly to him, fulton him, pass checkpoint, check idroid for his arrival to your staff, abort mission.

[!RJ_Truth]

Is this a recent thing? I've had an issue recently where I fulton a specific specializtion and when he arrives in Brig, he's not what I scanned. I also happened to get a server disconnect at the same time, but this was in the field, not on an FOB it shouldn't have mattered, but it did.

The down side was that it was supposed to be an A+ climber since I'm looking for low ranking climbers, but in the brig he had no specialization at all, but the ranks were the same. It was odd, but so far it was a one time thing. I don't know if it's a temporary glitch or what. It's the first time I've ever seen anything like it.

[Helvek]

Might be that your staff is too good for him to be recruited, leading to him not being hired and leading to you not being able to obtain him.

[!RJ_Truth]

Originally posted by Atomized_Coyote:

Might be that your staff is too good for him to be recruited, leading to him not being hired and leading to you not being able to obtain him.

No, I'm LV140 in all units and I have always gotten the man in the brig that I extract. He may be auto-fired when he comes out of the brig if I don't ensure there is room, but he'll be in the brig regardless until his time is up.

[lazy skunk]

Originally posted by GeekDoctor:

Originally posted by Atomized_Coyote:

Might be that your staff is too good for him to be recruited, leading to him not being hired and leading to you not being able to obtain him.

No, I'm LV140 in all units and I have always gotten the man in the brig that I extract. He may be auto-fired when he comes out of the brig if I don't ensure there is room, but he'll be in the brig regardless until his time is up.

almost all of specialists are pows, they do not go to brig.

[dragony]

To ensure getting that specialist make space for him, fire one unnecessary man.

[!RJ_Truth]

Originally posted by dragony:

To ensure getting that specialist make space for him, fire one unnecessary man.

I'm more fond of firing 5-10 low ranked know nothing soldiers. and moving staff around so there is more than enough space in the unit you want to ensure they go to. Usually R&D.

Originally posted by lazy skunk:

almost all of specialists are pows, they do not go to brig.

Yeah, I was thinking skills and now that I'm playing Dragon Age again it's easy to get Skill and Specialist and Specialization all confused since there are Specializations in DA too. You're right though. They should be assigned to R&D, although I have seen people assigned to other units because R&D is full at the time. Somehow they always end up in R&D eventually as Miller does his thing. Usually when they unit they were assigned to gets full of people higher ranking, they'll end up being moved into R&D anyway.

I'd say maybe check the other units to ensure they weren't accidentally assigned elsewhere?

[AmmonJerro]

Originally posted by lazy skunk:

start mission, go directly to him, fulton him, pass checkpoint, check idroid for his arrival to your staff, abort mission.

Thanks for all your help, community coming together :D i have tried the above. it didnt work.

Is it possible that because i have such high ranked staff, he doesnt make it into my FOB???

[!RJ_Truth]

Originally posted by AmmonJerro:

Originally posted by lazy skunk:

start mission, go directly to him, fulton him, pass checkpoint, check idroid for his arrival to your staff, abort mission.

Thanks for all your help, community coming together :D i have tried the above. it didnt work.

Is it possible that because i have such high ranked staff, he doesnt make it into my FOB???

Specialists will always make it regardless of FOB level. They will not be auto-fired by Miller. You can fire them, but they will not be auto-fired, so no need to waste a DC on them. I would be willing to bet that if you have fultoned multiple of this guy that he's there somewhere and getting lost in the crowd.

[lazy skunk]

Originally posted by AmmonJerro:

Originally posted by lazy skunk:

start mission, go directly to him, fulton him, pass checkpoint, check idroid for his arrival to your staff, abort mission.

Thanks for all your help, community coming together :D i have tried the above. it didnt work.

Is it possible that because i have such high ranked staff, he doesnt make it into my FOB???

you have to free at least one staff slot. if your base is full, dismiss someone. method with single extraction and mission abort works for all (except the ones from "backup, back down" due to absence of checkpoints). i did it several times for sleeping gas spec, and a lot of times for blue kangaroo.

[AmmonJerro]

Originally posted by lazy skunk:

Originally posted by AmmonJerro:

Thanks for all your help, community coming together :D i have tried the above. it didnt work.

Is it possible that because i have such high ranked staff, he doesnt make it into my FOB???

you have to free at least one staff slot. if your base is full, dismiss someone. method with single extraction and mission abort works for all (except the ones from "backup, back down" due to absence of checkpoints). i did it several times for sleeping gas spec, and a lot of times for blue kangaroo.

AHH understood now, thank you, i dismissed 1 lowbie dude just before extracting him and it worked :) ty ty