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No Rookie & Soldier Prizes (WOTC)

Thanks for this mod, I needed one like this to conserve my character pool. I want to EARN my character pool soldiers damn it!

I just completed a WOTC campaign with 104 mods including this one. This one appears to stop working in the very late game, as I started getting soldier "prizes" from some POI points very late on.

Hell yes, thank you for this! I was so fed up with starting the game and getting Rookies as a mandatory POI....with a full garrison I wont be able to train completly until I have researched Plasmaweapons! =(
Just what I was looking for :D

Unpopular opinion:
I like Rookies early in game. I usually recruit a few of those during the campaign, so geting a few extra in the beginning is always nice for me.
The soldier scans are almost useless early in the game. What is the point of scanning 7 days for a squaddie, when you get the same thing by sending them on a covert action. But in the late game? Scan 7 days and get a Captain? Major? Or even Colonel? Yes please. I don't even care what class they are. Just... gimme.

Rookie rewards do suck, early in the game. It would be a lot better, if the game simply let us choose between one of two rewards, or else, spared us the rookies, until the 3rd month mark. I'm happy to see them go, though, in their current implementation, but I do have one important question:

Does this mod affect Allies Unknown alien soldiers, or rookie aliens? because those I do want, and as quickly as possible...

Soldiers isn't too bad, though, although it would be fantastic, if I could only just pick whichever soldier class I wanted that soldier to be.

Having a sergeant (3rd level or higher) soldier pop up, earliy in the game can actually be really useful, for covert missions and staffing duties that require them, because I have a rule where I do my best to train up every rookie, with relative consistency, and finding enough sergeants to fill my needs, that first month, can become a bit hectic.

Just completed a WOTC campaign with 63 mods including this one. All ran perfectly. I like this mod, I will use it again.

Great mod! Also adds a bit more difficulty to the end game, as you can't recruit high level soldiers.

I just ran an L/I campaign and rookies were saught after. You know your dealing with a ton of down and dead soldiers, so you need constant refills. I would rather spent my hard earned cash on other things.

Rookies don't necessarily suck, especially when you play L/I and you're losing soldiers left to right. But I'd rather recruit Rookies than getting 'em as POI rewards.

Great mod. The mod size is too big because the XcomGame folder is in the SRC folder. Can you please remove to keep size reasonable.