Graduation Question

ArchMaster Poster Joined: Jul 18, 2006 Posts: 1170

I posted this on the DM-81 forum, but got no responses to it.

I think most managers are excited when the receive their invite to ADM for their warriors. Not me, as I desperately wanted Hadrian to sit on the throne at least one turn before graduation. What has me both perplexed and upset though is the fact that Hadrian only has 16 PP when receiving his notice. I have checked it multiple times. I thought you needed 17 PP to graduate! Am I wrong? Frustrating because Hadrian is sitting in an ideal spot to get the throne next turn, but it won't matter as he'll have graduated instead. WTF.

Has anybody else ever seen this happen before? Am I wrong in assuming all warriors need 17 PP to graduate? Am I missing something?

Posted: Tue Jun 16, 2015 7:37 pm

Assur, a manager that has tracked graduation requirements for a long time, is convinced that something has changed in the graduation program. There have been lots of oddities over the past 6 months or so, possibly longer.

There is also a chance that Hadrian picked up PPs on a turn that was rerun. Assur has noted that he thinks when turns are rerun, the PPs do not disappear, which causes some weirdness to happen in terms of PPs.

Hope this helps.

Posted: Wed Jun 17, 2015 12:31 am

Terminator wrote:

I posted this on the DM-81 forum, but got no responses to it.

I think most managers are excited when the receive their invite to ADM for their warriors. Not me, as I desperately wanted Hadrian to sit on the throne at least one turn before graduation. What has me both perplexed and upset though is the fact that Hadrian only has 16 PP when receiving his notice. I have checked it multiple times. I thought you needed 17 PP to graduate! Am I wrong? Frustrating because Hadrian is sitting in an ideal spot to get the throne next turn, but it won't matter as he'll have graduated instead. WTF.

Has anybody else ever seen this happen before? Am I wrong in assuming all warriors need 17 PP to graduate? Am I missing something?

While Consortiumites have been graduating at 17pp (except sandbaggers pulled) there have been more and more reports of unusual graduation activity. Many are finally verified to have had 17 pp; a few have not. We really do not know what the "issue/change" is. There might be something in the water.

Enjoy your Lord Protector. Congrats.

ArchMaster Poster Joined: Jul 18, 2006 Posts: 1170

Thanks for the responses guys. In reality i'm not "really" upset, just annoyed. Hadrian is probably one of the most talented warriors I have ever had and was desperately hoping to add the title of Duelmaster to his resume before graduation. Just seems to take some of the shine off his illustrious career without it. Oh well. Sad

Advanced Expert Poster Joined: Apr 11, 2005 Posts: 113

I've had this happen twice in the past year or two. One theory is that the turn was rerun and the PP's weren't wiped off.

I had a TP graduate with only 1 master rating, 32 FE and 15 PP. That was an odd one.

ArchMaster Poster Joined: Jul 18, 2006 Posts: 1170

I wonder if it is something that can be corrected if I reached out to Sandy or Lee? Or maybe I shouldn't tempt fate. With my luck, i'd win the petition to push back graduation and then die in the next fight before immortality.

Posted: Wed Jun 17, 2015 10:26 am

Terminator wrote:

I wonder if it is something that can be corrected if I reached out to Sandy or Lee? Or maybe I shouldn't tempt fate. With my luck, i'd win the petition to push back graduation and then die in the next fight before immortality.

Our opinion ...
It never hurts to ask.
We often have questions for Sandy/Lee,
All too often, sadly, they nicely explain what we have done to ourselves.
But sometimes .............................

Posted: Wed Jun 17, 2015 4:33 pm

It is possible that you gained PP by beating my talented scum in the bloodfueds 3-1, beating any of my warriors 3 times is probably worth a dozen PP, thus your early graduation is explained Very Happy

Posted: Wed Jun 17, 2015 11:56 pm

This happened to me a few month ago in Morya. My slasher won the title and quickly got his invite. I think he was at 14 or 15 PP. It was so early, I thought he might have gotten a TV in the Halloween tourney. Much to my chagrin, that was not the case. According to Assur, I should have had two more turns.