Recently hired merc disappears upon loading saved game

[SlickWilhelm]

On day eleven, my beloved Jabby got himself blown up by a grenade and lost 20 pts of agility. So I decided to dismiss him. But then I changed my mind and decided that he could be useful as an extra defense guy at the Rail Station. So I rehired him, and posted him at the Rail Station.

I then saved the game.

This morning, I loaded the same game and Jabby was NOT at the Rail Station. In fact he was nowhere on the map. I checked my journal, and sure enough it said that Jabby agreed to work for me on day eleven. I went to IMA and there he was, ready to hire again.

[&:]

Edit: This is playing with the patch installed.

[Mraah]

Slick,

I don't know if this is related to your specific problem but there's another "bug" that causes mercs recently hired to not be able to merge them into the same squad in the sector on the instance that the merc has arrived at the sector.

Next time you do what you did try this before saving ... Select the squad with the newly hired merc and make the squad travel to another location, then, click back to the Rail Station to make the squad return back. After the squad returns back you can safely save the game since now the game knows that the merc is at the Rail Station.

Hope that helps,
Rob

EDIT NOTE : There seems to be an overall "Recently Hired Merc" bug with regards to having the game know they are in a sector.