Either that or rework the whole system to actually reflect the idea that we're rising through the actual ranks. Make it like Sid Meier's Pirates!, where you get given land. A token number would do until ED includes the ability to stake out planet surface and build your own facilities, ports, etc on it. (Edit: All right, I admit it, I want a castle. When I'm a baron, or an earl or a count or something, I want a castle. If I get to be a duke I want a gigantic big stately home. Either one could have a moat. And a spaceport.)
That's strangely unsettling.
That's strangely unsettling.
I'd rather have the introduction of real military ranks as an alternative to PF membership rather than a replacement system. This should be a player choice that would affect large parts of the game, and be much harder to simply walk away from with no lasting repercussions than a PP faction.Either that or rework the whole system to actually reflect the idea that we're rising through the actual ranks. Make it like Sid Meier's Pirates!, where you get given land. A token number would do until ED includes the ability to stake out planet surface and build your own facilities, ports, etc on it. (Edit: All right, I admit it, I want a castle. When I'm a baron, or an earl or a count or something, I want a castle. If I get to be a duke I want a gigantic big stately home. Either one could have a moat. And a spaceport.)
But an obvious disparity is that the Federal ranks are military by nature; where the Imperial ones are social (albeit originating from war, like 'duke', from 'dux', meaning a leader in war). But still, titles of nobility are not the same deal as military ranks at all. And plus the Alliance doesn't have any such system at all - presumably consistent with lore, if the Alliance isn't a single nation with a single organisational structure. But still, it would have been nice for Alliance players to be able to have something. Even if it was a sort of 'equivalence' system like the OF-n/OR-n structure used by NATO.
Also, we should have graphics showing the insignia of our ranks or titles. That'd be cool. And have the game replace our CMDR prefix (which my brain still insists on mentally pronouncing as 'K'MUH-DUH!' - with the exclamation mark because full caps is shouting) with the abbreviation for our titles or ranks. Oh, and while you're at it, FDev, just call all the voice actors back in again, and get them to record all the variants, eh?
Why no, I'm not entitled.
Well, all right. Maybe as far as Master, but nothing impressive.
Sorry for another load of text. I'm not entirely sober right now*.
(* This is clearly a perfectly adequate explanation.)
It would indeed be uncharacteristic. But I'd have to say.... no. I remain, for now, very much a hotdog-free zone.
I'd agree. I really would like to be able to feel like I'm seriously investing in my superpower, earning a reputation, rising through the ranks...
I think this is the central aspect. The reason for the male names is to show that the empire is an extremely conservative society. To quote the wiki:
This isn't Frontiers position on gender, this is an element of storytelling, which isn't used to denote sympathies towards antifeministic positions, but to include an emphatically unfair and rigid society. Which is opposed in this very elements by several other factions in the galaxy, including Aisling as an internal critic.
Here's an experiment you could try: call them something other than "chicks" and see if they're less inclined to grief you.
Well, the Internet tells me this is the ultimate goal of the LGBTQ Agenda™, so... yay? I guess?
