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newplayerguy7
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From the latest Dev Blog:
"One of the joys of getting ahead is earning a new title for your rank. Federation and Romulan characters will advance from Admiral to Fleet Admiral. KDF characters will rise through the ranks to become a General and later a Dahar Master.
Al Captain Geko Rivera
Lead Designer
Star Trek Online"
We're all gonna be Fleet Admirals?
Can't wait until the next level increase - "President of the Federation" for everyone! And after that - "King of the Universe"! Woot! Can't wait for that "joy'!
:rolleyes:
Why wasn't Rank capped at Captain? (except Guild Leaders who could unlock Admiral titles). This 'everyone is a Fleet Admiral' is stupidly ridiculous!
"One of the joys of getting ahead is earning a new title for your rank. Federation and Romulan characters will advance from Admiral to Fleet Admiral. KDF characters will rise through the ranks to become a General and later a Dahar Master.
Al Captain Geko Rivera
Lead Designer
Star Trek Online"
We're all gonna be Fleet Admirals?
Can't wait until the next level increase - "President of the Federation" for everyone! And after that - "King of the Universe"! Woot! Can't wait for that "joy'!
:rolleyes:
Why wasn't Rank capped at Captain? (except Guild Leaders who could unlock Admiral titles). This 'everyone is a Fleet Admiral' is stupidly ridiculous!
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Why cant it be simply a Level and you are able to unlock Rank / Ranktitles via the achivement system...
Has the big advantage of beeing able to increase the levelcap to any level they want without compromising the Ranksystem.
Fleetadmiral is just hilarious. Theres like 1 or 2 Fleetadmirals in the whole starfleet...
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actually there were a dozen fleet admirals in Star Fleet, Fleet admirals hold power over.....well fleets, and generally they were the highest in field ranks obtainable. though deskbound admirals still have the majority of authority.
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One player's headcanon in trying to make an MMO into a single player game is at best a misguided endeavour.
That's a lame excuse. Besides, doesn't explain why we still get ordered around by characters of lower rank.
Personally, I'd like to be called, Oh handsome overload of awesomeness... :P
I'm sorry to people who I, in the past, insulted, annoyed, etc.
They aren't ordering us, they are just asking for help. That's why we can wander off and go to Risa for a couple of days if we feel like it before heading back to help them out. At least that's how I see it, otherwise we'd probably have lost our ships and ranks by now given how long some of those missions have been sitting in my log for.
I would point out Quinn would still outrank us whilst we are Fleet Admirals, of course I'd hope in future expansions if they raise the cap again, they stretch out some of the existing ranks to make it look like we got up a lot slower than we did.
Because rank is not the only thing that decides who has authority in a matter. At least not in the military I was trained in.
If some lowly Lieutenant is charged with guard duty, he has the authority to command everyone, even an Admiral, to prove his identity, and also that of any guests he may bring, and decide whether the person are allowed entry, based on whatever rules and guidelines exist for the situation.
Now, if you're high enough rank, you probably also sit in a position where you could actually do something to change these Lieutenant orders, but it may not be a direct process as "Hey, have you counted my pips?" (And of course, if the Admiral is of a petty kind, he may hold a grudge and find ways to make the officers life - and career - difficult. )
If Starfleet tells Commander Bob that he is in charge of all Starfleet operations inside this sector, he may very well be allowed to even tell a Fleet Admiral that his job for the day is to figure out what's up with the rumours about a Klingon superweapon or whatever. Especially if the Fleet Admiral was told already by Starfleet Command that he's to serve in that sector under command of that Commander Bob, then he has to follow those orders.
Why do people not get the point of that thread? The fact that that's the way it is is so obvious that people were complaining about that thread being a captain obvious thread, and yet there are still people who can't get it through their head that all player characters are projections of the "canonical" protagonist. There isn't any other way it can work. There's only one Tovan Khev; hence, only one Romulan player character. Same with Flores and K'gan. And even beyond that, we do things that can only be done once. That's the price of having narrative content that everyone can play; there's not really any other way to do it.
Now, who exactly the canonical protagonist is, we may never know, unless they go the KOTOR route and just define it eventually.
Desk bound admirals and officers who work on behalf of starfleet are the ones who either give or relay orders.
Admirals of low ranks can call forth missions and order higher ranks around since they are essentially Starfleet. Officers who are lower ranks than us order us around because they are essentially just Relaying Starfleet's orders.
Quinn is in charge of StarFleet operations and as such he outranks us.
And the four other Fleet Admirals helping you in that STF you're running....:rolleyes:
arcgames.com/en/forums/startrekonline/#/discussion/1203368/pve-content-a-list-of-gamewide-polishing-pass-suggestions
I guess the farmers will sit in the war room and control all that technology and manpower
Personally don't care about text or pixels especially since it's all non-canon but I know other people do and it made no sense to not work with them on this from day 1 or even now.
You know people like immersion, some like rp, so what's the point I really don't get it
Yes it is.
If you choose in your own 'head canon' to close your eyes and go, "lalalala - I can't see or hear you other people in the game!" go right ahead if it helps you cope with the situation.
But the truth is this is a massive MULTIPLAYER online game.
The dev team really blew it with making everyone admirals. We should have been rank (not level) capped at Captain, with only guild leaders having access to Admiral.
arcgames.com/en/forums/startrekonline/#/discussion/1203368/pve-content-a-list-of-gamewide-polishing-pass-suggestions
Explain multiplayer praytell?
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Well to an extent theres an ammount of Suspension of Disbelief thats appropriate in my view.
That Ferengi Cruiser you see, thats just a roving trader, that Xindi ship, I'll assume thats an actual Xindi crew, and that Dominion Dreadnought I'll assume is a visiting Ambassadors vessel.
So I can totally understand trying to rationalise things in the game that are controlled by other players
We're Starfleet (Or Klingon Defense Force) Officers.
While a KDF can rise up through the ranks to become Chancellor, a Starfleet officer must be ELECTED to be President of the Federation, it's not a rank, it's an office that is chosen by the population of the Federation.
That's the most inspiring post I've ever read.