I'm just a bit wary of putting more progress and activity monitoring into the game after the last update. Thing is I stopped caring after hitting triple elite. It was kind of the point where the game told me to stop looking at any of that amd just get on with my own game. I suppose something for those who like having a target to aim for wouldn't hurt.
please add post-elite status ranks
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Just got my 1 million ly badge from EDSM, they had to send me an email to let me know because I didn't notice, the same will probably happen with the Epeen awards, other people might notice the Epeen awards, but the people actually matter to me probably don't care either, oh well.
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Possibly something along the lines of Elite 1st dan, 2nd dan, etc. like martial arts black belt status.
But for those ranks you actually have to prove that you are good. While ranks in ED simply indicate that you did something often enough.
I mean, the early Kyu ranks you pass simply by performing a comparatively simple kata. That's good enough. But for "strange reasons" you don't get Dan ranks by just repeating the same kata for a dozen of times. And this is how ranks in ED in the end work.
You could fix that by having a set of challenges. You get a ships and setup, no customisation or engineering, and have to complete these challenges. In the end you get points awarded based on speed, shape of your ship in the end, etc. And only the best 2.8% of all players get the Elite rank, which can also result in somebody loosing the rank again when somebody else does better.
That would actually work, but i don't think that it'd be well received in the community. Anything short of that just doesn't add value in my eyes. In the present shape, this suggestion is like "my skinner box bores me, i need longer bars to fill".