Promotions not working

[joepvanheesch]

Hi everyone,
When I build my manor house I get the option to "select mandates". When clicking this, I get two options: discuss with villagers (7 days) and promote villagers (0 days). When I click the promotions button, I see the promotions menu but there aren't any villagers in it, just a blank list. This is the case even if I progress with the quests. Besides this, I don't get a popup to promote villigars anymore which I did get in earlier versions. Can anyone help?

[Minotorious]

The pop-up has been removed you can promote at any time you want now.

Are you sure all your villagers' needs have been satisfied for them to be available for promotion? Click on one of them to check that

[funababbit]

Well, I think this new promotion system probably sucks. I can find no villager whose needs are not met - EXCEPT - that I have built a church and made sure there's nothing blocking the entrance. I am at -19 on "Service" and Church attendance is at 0/45. I prefer to expand quickly. With this new promotion system, I have started my village in a tight cluster with houses and food stalls built around the circumference of the Village Center. Of course, I have a manor house. Food, Water, and Housing are met on all villagers I can find. First I dislike the restrictions on area expansion that this new system imposes. I prefer to build with plans for future construction, farms here, industry there, etc. Second, this "service" thing with the church - if I have yet to build more churches within my tight little array to get promotions finally - that's just going to be a nuisance and a game-breaker. I don't want to be back playing Tropico, or Anno 1440, which I abandoned to come to Foundation. This on top of the large number of great mods that have been good-nighted is not helping my immersion, as I stated previously in another post.

FOLLOW UP
i let the game run unattended for an hour or so to see if anything would happen. No, still no service - no attendance at my Rustic Church. As a last resort before giving up on Foundation, I plopped down a Legacy Rustic Church nearer to the Town Center. Almost immediately the count went to 27/27 and I was given the chance for promotion. Still, that does not work. The Rustic Church which was never occupied, was between six Serf Q houses, fully occupied. Previously I mentioned Tropico, which was so prickly it became a boring damned if you do damned if you don't. This problem should not exist as I have described it. It would be unfortunate if the game were transformed so as to require a church every other hex to render the game unplayable. Even as it stands, I foresee the possibility that it will become virtually impossible to place workers at distant farms or mine sites because there is no church. Let's leave off the religious zealotry and revert to the tolerance previously allowed.

[Minotorious]

Please share a few screenshots or the save file for us to check on the issue as it doesn't sound like something I have seen before.

[funababbit]

The game autosaves so often that all incidents of that game are lost. After I had success with the Legacy Church, I started a new game and built a Rustic Church. It was built early in the game and it worked. All that I can say about the previous problem was that the church was built, there were no obstructions it was close to housing, and there wasn't even a worn pathway to the church door. Otherwise, the church was surrounded by trees on three sides other than the front. Thanks for the input - BTW - I don't know which mods of yours have vanished from my folder. I know I had several of yours - I hope you're updating yours. And thanks for helping to make this a great game. I had taken a break last year with over 40 mods. I just counted them a few minutes ago - and now 21 show up in my game folder. Kind of a let down.

[Minotorious]

Ah that's unfortunate, of the issue happens again please do keep a file for us to check.

As for mods I do plan to work much more focused on Foundation with some really big mods planned if all works out well starting January. We are slowly getting closer to the full version and the API has improved a lot in the past year.

[glen_mooney]

yes I never used to have any problems with promotion but now, I've had 4 games with just 1 letting me promote villagers.

[Minotorious]

Please send us screenshots or save files to check on these issues as otherwise it can't easily be identified and fixed if it is a bug