Cannot Promote Any Fleet Members

inferiority

No matter which Fleet Member I select to promote, I always receive the error message "You cannot promote yourself in the fleet".
Could this be because when the fleet member list loads, I'm selected by default?
But why doesn't it register when I've selected somebody else for promotion?

rndfluctuation

Also applies to PC - confirmed (today, and yes I had a legitimate reason to do/check this)

P.S.
Possible workaround - your mileage may vary

If can't promote on Roster, go to the Settings tab (in fleet) and look at your rank's permissions.
(While there, do verify you have the relevant permission to promote either lower rank or in general)
If you have the right permission to promote that character, go back to Roster tab and there should be a promote button newly appearing there as you selected the character again.

Do try, you will get an error but the character should be promoted if allowed.


Other notes: I don't know the exact needed steps but this is what I tried. Also I don't know if only AoD characters are affected or if all are, and any other detail/possible limitation.

Another thing which may be worth adding - when a discovery character joined the fleet the char appeared nameless at join news. After this promotion, the character's name appeared in news. The character was, in that specific case, a discovery character. A previous invite to fleet didn't work until the tutorial was finished or something like that, and then the invite success but news showed an empty name char joined the fleet. THIS may be related to the issue described above. I don't know, as said, which chars are affected (discovery only or general) and under which conditions.

inferiority

Just an update to this issue:
When trying to promote any fleet member in STO that isn't online, the game appears to try to promote the top-listed character instead.

leemwatson

inferiority wrote: »

Just an update to this issue:
When trying to promote any fleet member in STO that isn't online, the game appears to try to promote the top-listed character instead.

It is seeming like you have to team with them to promote atm.

inferiority

Trouble is, I'm trying to promote my own alts...
In my own Fleet...
That has my own characters in it...

garaffe

This has been an issue for so long. I'm not in any fleets right now, but back when I was in a fleet several years ago, when one of the leaders wanted to promote an alt, they would have to ask another leader to login to do it.

millefune

inferiority wrote: »

Trouble is, I'm trying to promote my own alts...
In my own Fleet...
That has my own characters in it...

Time to make another PSN/STO login as your "Alt Manager." But I think that takes a week of "probationary period" to promote another "person" to the top rank.

inferiority

I already tried that, but it still tries to promote the player at the top of the list if the 'player being promoted' is currently offline.