Apparently, if you've hit the staff cap the game will remove the shittiest soldier you have for you. And because of this, I've managed to get Silent Basilisk, Ziang Tan and Miller off my staff list. Crazy that even pivotal characters aren't sacred. Ocelot is next, I bet.

Also, fuck Miller.

Go redo the mission that recruits Miller. Apparently in what seems like an unrelated bug people are sporadically re-recruiting story characters (that aren't Quiet) after they leave (for instance, damn my luck, Huey somehow wound up back at my Mother Base). It might work in your situation.

I don't think story characters can be dismissed. They have locks on them from the get go. Unless those locks are removed after you beat the game?

This is weird, after all the discussions about this game and the countless hours I put into it, I've never heard of Miller being dismissed from Mother Base.

Well, they're just being dismissed from the base management minigame part, not from the story or any later missions or anything. And it only happens automatically when they are the worst soldiers in your entire base, and you run out of room for new guys. I'm curious if the new guys have to be better than them or not, though.

Well if it was up to me I'd fire Huey everyday. I am replaying it now, and I am about to do the save Huey mission and I fully plan on shooting his dumb face and failing that mission on purpose.

@chu52: Oh man, tell us if there is any dialog specifically for it.

i noticed this too but now that i only play metal gear online i don't care anymore

Is this after the newest patch? Because Silent Basilisk was definitely the shittiest guy on my base for at least fifty hours of gameplay.

I didn't think the waiting room had a cap on it. If this is true, I want to finally get rid of Silent Basilisk and Tan. Hate always having to skip over them when I'm dismissing people.

@TechnoSyndrome:

Don't think so. You'd have to recruit ALOT of new guys though. The staff cap for 2 FOBs is 1400.

But is he S-rank or above? I'm only taking in people that are at least S-rank now.

I've managed to reacquire Quiet by redoing her story mission. Still waiting for her to get dismissed.

EDIT: Here's my staff list, sans Miller.

@kasaioni: The waiting room doesn't have a cap, your total personnel on the base does (mine is at 1400, and no base upgrades have changed that). When you have more than 1400 dudes, it will start auto-dismissing the worst people on your team. Including the people who might have a skill you need that only they have, forcing you to redo early missions when you realize Miller kicked out the guy who upgrades your bionic arm before you have even half the upgrades for it.

Fuck Miller.

Does anyone know if you own a 2nd FOB, your staff cap will get increased?

I thought this was a thread about Konami laying off all of the people that worked on MGS V.

@believer258: So did I. It's sad I'm expecting that to happen soon.

Thats shitty. Direct control actually wont save personel from being autodismissed by Miller, it wont even save himself. I hope its a bug.

The Konami personell will not be layed off they will be reassigned. Maybe some American division will be shut down becouse thats the American way.

I've had to kick out plenty of guys from my base, and most of them were a hell of a lot better than ol' D average Silent Basilisk

Yeah, I'm regularly kicking out dudes with A+ and A++ ranks now. I haven't played in a while since I got 100% story and sideop completion, but I'm not platinumed yet, so there's still stuff to do. Ehhh...

@cbyrne: sadly just a "why did you kill him?"

But I had the satisfaction of throwing Huey to the ground and popping him with that bag over his head.

Weird, I thought locked characters couldn't be dismissed?

I came into this thread thinking the same thing. Now that it isn't I don't really know how to feel about it.

I don't know but it would make sense. I'm hitting a cap of 700 and I haven't created an FOB, so if it goes up to 1400 when you build the first FOB, probably it would go to 2100 with the next?

MGSV first world problems.

Huh. I've had staff auto-dismissed, but I never lost Silent Basilisk, despite him being easily my worst staff member.

I have 2 fobs and the cap is 2100.

@chu52: Awww wasted "Time Paradox" moment, thanks for the update though!

@white: Clearly this shows that even the game thinks "Fuck Miller"