Ha! I was thinking smaller like President Jack Ryan from the later Tom Clancy novels or Stephen Colbert's Tek Jansen. But, yeah, it's like that. Or like DC Universe online if they introduced a playable class based on Prez, where you can be the heroic teenage Undersecretary of Agriculture. Maybe Idiocracy is the best comparison.
If they ever get rename tokens fixed, maybe my main should become Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Herbert Camacho and I can write Foundry missions where we give plants the electrolytes that they crave.
Now all we need is a minigame where you can kick people in the nuts for Latinum. :rolleyes:
be a captain then, its more of a position. you are captain of a starship no matter what rank you are. its both real life and star trek tradition where the commander of a ship is captain and their is only one person that can be called captain on the ship everyone else gets a brevet promotion one rank higher.
Which means it only took 2 years. This is not a contraindication for rapid promotion. On the contrary, it gives canon support to it.
Captain to Rear Admiral is only one rank step and it took Kirk nine years as Captain before his next promotion (to a desk job as an admiral)... And Kirk was the youngest captain in Starfleet history at 28 (and admiral at 37). A record that stood for over a hundred years and was still unmatched in TNG.
Pike hit Captain at 32. He was promoted to Fleet Captain after 11 years. He never made admiral.
Janeway narrowly missed Kirk's record and became a captain at 28. It took her 15 years to become an admiral.
Archer became a captain at 36 and an admiral at 52, spending 16 years at captain rank.
Matt Decker spent 15 years as a captain.
Garth of Izar, considered by Kirk to be the greatest captain of all, made captain at 43 and after 17 years and a mental institution trip, was not promoted either. (Although one novel has him rehabilitated.)
Picard managed to hit captain at 28 (still not beating Kirk's record) and spent 52 years as a starship captain, refusing transfers and promotions.
The graduation dates of some of these characters is not known but the typical path for a hero captain seems to be 7 years for ensign through captain ranks, 10+ years as captain. Few become admirals after that.
I'm all for players being a Kirk or Picard but we should probably have careers that look like Kirk or Picard's.
Instead of complicating things, just rename Va to Captian, and have captian go from 1-10, make it go to whatever level cap you want.
It would also make more sense then StarFleet being 100% Admirals.
I agree but people would complain... though people complain no matter what happens.
My idea from a while ago was to have players rank to Captain only on the basis of the levels; a new "Commodore" rank available once a player reaches Tier IV in all Commendations; and leave the "Admiral" ranks to fleets to hand out. That way, "Captain" is the 'easy' one to get, "Commodore" becomes the super-special one to aim for, and you wouldn't often see an "Admiral" except for NPCs and apart from that, only whilst in fleet actions.
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Fleet Captain
Now all we need is a minigame where you can kick people in the nuts for Latinum. :rolleyes:
Yeeeeeakth. :P
Captain to Rear Admiral is only one rank step and it took Kirk nine years as Captain before his next promotion (to a desk job as an admiral)... And Kirk was the youngest captain in Starfleet history at 28 (and admiral at 37). A record that stood for over a hundred years and was still unmatched in TNG.
Pike hit Captain at 32. He was promoted to Fleet Captain after 11 years. He never made admiral.
Janeway narrowly missed Kirk's record and became a captain at 28. It took her 15 years to become an admiral.
Archer became a captain at 36 and an admiral at 52, spending 16 years at captain rank.
Matt Decker spent 15 years as a captain.
Garth of Izar, considered by Kirk to be the greatest captain of all, made captain at 43 and after 17 years and a mental institution trip, was not promoted either. (Although one novel has him rehabilitated.)
Picard managed to hit captain at 28 (still not beating Kirk's record) and spent 52 years as a starship captain, refusing transfers and promotions.
The graduation dates of some of these characters is not known but the typical path for a hero captain seems to be 7 years for ensign through captain ranks, 10+ years as captain. Few become admirals after that.
I'm all for players being a Kirk or Picard but we should probably have careers that look like Kirk or Picard's.
Not used in Trek in the historical sense either as Fleet Captains in Trek aren't chief of staff to a flag officer.
I agree but people would complain... though people complain no matter what happens.
My idea from a while ago was to have players rank to Captain only on the basis of the levels; a new "Commodore" rank available once a player reaches Tier IV in all Commendations; and leave the "Admiral" ranks to fleets to hand out. That way, "Captain" is the 'easy' one to get, "Commodore" becomes the super-special one to aim for, and you wouldn't often see an "Admiral" except for NPCs and apart from that, only whilst in fleet actions.