I'm sure something like this has come up before, probably multiple times. I recently did the crawl to Rear Admiral to unlock the Corvette, the climb was the most pointless experience. I did message delivery missions from rank 7 to 12 including the rank up missions.
Firstly having to wait for RNG to put up a naval advancement was really annoying as well the entire process is just basically ticking box's.
I could keep going all the way to Admiral not doing anything different. How pointless is the rank of admiral, doesn't mean diddly squat.
I propose that the Naval missions should have some meaning. Perhaps for the first 7 ranks it doesn't matter, doing RNG mission with naval attached is fine as your not important. However after say rank 7 when you reach 100% you would receive an invitation to then meet someone in say Sol as its rank locked, you would meet a general who would then give you a specific mission based on the rank. There could still be some randomness in the missions but still designed for the rank, this way at least when you reach admiral you've shown competency in specific abilities worthy of the position. as you hand it in you get congratulated and informed that you now have access to the corvette as worthy of your position. This would also mean you have regular contact with a specific person allowing for more immersion and attachment even if it is minor.
For the most part this wouldn't be hard to implement and would make the grind mean more as it would then have a kind of minor campaign feel, at the very least it would give the ranks some meaning because right now it is merely just a worthless grind to unlock the ship. no sense of achievement outside of putting time towards it.
Thoughts
o7
Firstly having to wait for RNG to put up a naval advancement was really annoying as well the entire process is just basically ticking box's.
I could keep going all the way to Admiral not doing anything different. How pointless is the rank of admiral, doesn't mean diddly squat.
I propose that the Naval missions should have some meaning. Perhaps for the first 7 ranks it doesn't matter, doing RNG mission with naval attached is fine as your not important. However after say rank 7 when you reach 100% you would receive an invitation to then meet someone in say Sol as its rank locked, you would meet a general who would then give you a specific mission based on the rank. There could still be some randomness in the missions but still designed for the rank, this way at least when you reach admiral you've shown competency in specific abilities worthy of the position. as you hand it in you get congratulated and informed that you now have access to the corvette as worthy of your position. This would also mean you have regular contact with a specific person allowing for more immersion and attachment even if it is minor.
For the most part this wouldn't be hard to implement and would make the grind mean more as it would then have a kind of minor campaign feel, at the very least it would give the ranks some meaning because right now it is merely just a worthless grind to unlock the ship. no sense of achievement outside of putting time towards it.
Thoughts
o7
