Academy

## History

Academy system was introduced back in CAT. As one of the 5 main functions on the top the main page, together with Soldiers, Campaign, Upgrades, Logisctics.

Early versions of Academy.

In early versions, a soldier's XP and perks will NOT be kept! You have to re grind it from 0 solid star.

Academy in 0.1.32.26

Academy is removed in 2021.10.15 0.2.2.47.

## Main functions

Before 0.1.32.26, you can only increase a soldier's total stars via Academy.

3 equal rank (full stars), and are all with full solid stars, and all related squad tech trees have unlocked the ability to the next rank, then this 3 soldiers will randomly be left with only 1 with +1 max rank (full stars), inheriting the alive one's existing type, tier, perks and XPs. Academy level up system support mixed class/type/tiers' soldiers.

The disappeared soldiers' weapons and equipment will be put back to your inventory. This is way many players have tons of knifes and default weapons, also the class' unique equipment. But there's been many reports of losing equipment after using Academy! So it's recommended to disarm first for who has been put into Academy.

You can cancel the "training process" anytime before the training is over, and get back all soldiers. But after tranng time is over, you can not get back all three. But still, you can use green tickets to select who should return.

Rejected messages include:

Heros, premiums, not full solid stars, the tech tree you havent unlocked, will be showed error. And 5 stars soldiers will not show here.

### Inheritance

The remained soldier will keep its previous class/type/tier/perks that selected/soldier XP.

For example (happens to trigger a bug here):

This soldier is the lucky one to be remained. He get his whole stars +1, the previous overflowed soldier XP. However, because the overflowed XP just exceeded the XP needed to be promoted to the next level without triggering the "retraining points" experience, the experience bar overflowed but the next star was not determined. As a result, new skills cannot be unlocked, and they cannot be sent to the military academy. (Translated by Google)

### Quickly count of soldiers

Till 0.1.32.26, Game has no easy way to count all your soldiers. So count and check your soldiers using Academy is convenient.

In a recent update, the soldier's relative squad's icon is displayed, also in a update near OBT release make the game show the correct soldier's head portrait, makes it even easier to check who is at where.

## Time of training

Premium account can reduce time to 1/2.

You can skip the training process mid time with discounts.

## Academy target training order (Green ticket)

With this green ticket, you can choose who will be remained.

## Controversy

(Mostly my personal opinions.)

This function wasnt there in OAT (2020). Only after playing a while in CAT, I felt the disgusting part of this mechanism:

It has almost no fun or attractions to players. It's the least fun part of the game. Only use is for increasing soldier's rank. Though also convenient for counting soldiers. Others, there is really nothing to interact with.

The annoying parts are much more. First, except training rank 1->2, all training takes HOURS. Let players feels pointless waste of time. Also due to it takes 3 soldiers for 1 higher rank, making 5 stars soldiers extreme hard to get. If you use all 1 star soldier for training a 5 star soldier, it needs 3^4=81 soldiers for a 5 star soldier. And this game's reserve only has room/slots 100~200 soldiers.

Also, there's reports from time to time of losing equipment when training. And developers even officially returned lost items in academy for once. Also the bug causing XP overflowed also makes players annoyed.

In early versions, a soldier's XP and perks will NOT be kept! You have to re grind it from 0 solid star. When level up 4->5 soldier, you will have to grind again.

At the same time, because of the various classes and tiers, there are often certain tiers of a certain class that are not unlocked , because the high-level squads require extremely high Squad experience in the tech tree. As a result, you have a lot of high-ranking soldiers, with full solid stars, but you can't train them.

## Do you know?

There's been a long time after OBT, the Academy will always return the soldier in 1st slot. Many players had used this to cleansing the types and tiers of soldiers.