Topic: labirynth behaving strangely

I post here and not on technical help because I don't know if it is a bug or a feature. The atlantean labirinth is not working as I suppose it should work. If it has inside soldiers it can promote, it should promote them, not change them. Instead here I was, with two soldier with the promotions eavasion 1 and healtpoints 1 inside the labyrinth. since the hp 1 promotion was expensive that early in the game, I wanted to make sure they'd survive, so i wanted them to be promoted to evasion 2. there were only those 2 soldiers inside. the labirinth was full of food. it remained there for a minute without promoting no one, then it sent one soldier away. and a little later it sent waway also the other. I really wanted to promote those two soldiers, so I kicked out all the new soldiers that came in until I got again those two soldiers inside. Again, it did not promote them. That's far from the only instance it does it. The labirynth malfunctions all the time. All the time I want the soldiers to promote to full but, despite having full food and full wares, it does not complete the promotion and it send away the soldiers instead. Anyone here knows why it does it and how I can stop it? Also if it is intended to work that way or if it is a bug.

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after some experimenting, I think I got an idea: the labyrinth is programmed to give the promotions in sequence: evade, defense, hp. once it promoted a soldier to evasion 1, it will try to promote to some other stat, sat defence. if there isn't a shield, or if the soldier already has defence 2, the labyrinth will say "cannot promote" and send the soldier away. I am relatively sure because I had 6 soldiers with evade 1 and hp 1 promotions in and no shields, it kicked out the first two and then promoted to evade 2 the third, then it kicked out the next two and promoted to evasion 2 the third again. I think it should be reprogrammed; instead of trying to force a specific promotion, it should see if there is any promotion available before kicking out a soldier. I filed a bug report with a replay in case.

https://bugs.launchpad.net/widelands/+bug/1422124

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Here's what I recommend:

When a soldier enters a training building, assign a Failvalue of 0.
Cycle through the various training types. For each of them, pick a random soldier.
If the soldier can be trained, train them and lower their failvalue by X (where X is the number of stats trained there).
If the soldier cannot be trained, raise their failvalue by 1.
If the soldier reaches 10 failvalue, kick them out.

That way it'll eventually eject untrainable soldiers, but it takes multiple failures to do so. Also, even if you're only training certain stats, this should work out fine.

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Ok, I found some time and I made a few replays where I show what happens. I am fairly sure labyrinth should not behave like that, it should not kick out a soldier it can promote, so I filed a bug report https://bugs.launchpad.net/widelands/+bug/1451078

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no, it's not related. that old report refers to soldiers leaving if there is no food to train them. and i would not call it a bug. this one insted applies even if food is pplentiful

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