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gminfly
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A lot of us are roleplaying as Admirals.
A lot of us are remaking their Boffs as toons.
A lot of us still have Captain rank boffs from the time lag spikes allowed this.
Can't you just enable that functionality? We are fleet admirals yet can't make anyone Captain. It would really help to just have those 4 pips on the Boffs. It's merely an aestethic thing. They don't need to have any additional powers for it. We our selfs don't either so it's just fine.
A lot of us are remaking their Boffs as toons.
A lot of us still have Captain rank boffs from the time lag spikes allowed this.
Can't you just enable that functionality? We are fleet admirals yet can't make anyone Captain. It would really help to just have those 4 pips on the Boffs. It's merely an aestethic thing. They don't need to have any additional powers for it. We our selfs don't either so it's just fine.
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I have no idea what this refers to. Are there really captain rank boff abilities in the game?
Just add captain rank as a roleplay thing, in the form of pips for their uniforms and the character overview screen and so on.
Same here.
Even when my bio states that they become (vice) admiral, it also says that they will become that after having served as captains for many years. So they'll be admiral at some point in the future, when their ships will be taken over either by one of their officers or just transferred to either an unknown captain (leaving room to create new characters in the future that tie in with existing ones) or, on a rare occasion, to another one that I've already created.
Of course, keeping them active or captain for so long only works if you don't follow STO's timeline in your bio, but I haven't done that for years.
No additional abilities but in early game when promoting it was possible to promote a BOFF past Commander to Captain.
That whole thing of Admiral = desk job thing hasn't even been true for the entire existence of the rank.
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Hence why Picard took command of the entire fleet when that admiral was disabled and his ship destroyed.
As a side note.
https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Hayes_(Male_Admiral)
But even there we only see Ross working behind a desk and not concerning himself with ship operations.
Anyway, it doesn't really matter. In STO, we have admiral Tuvok in charge of Voyager. So admirals can be in charge of and most of the time using just a single ship, although they will most likely also have other duties that extend to giving other captains of other ships their orders. In Tuvok's case: leading the Alliance's efforts in the DQ.
And this may be the problem for STO: we don't get to command multiple ships at the same time. Unless you're a Jem-Hadar or play some very specific content like in the Voth and Undine battlezones.
Would still be a great feature if they ever did decide to release that, but it's been years since we heard anything about that.
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Is one Admiral serving a ship in the show really an argument against an entirely cosmetic change?
You are called a fleet admiral at 65. We have fleets in the very same sense and we see lenty of admirals during the show filling exactly that executive function.
I'm sorry but I refuse your point.
That would be total overkill, not bringing money and not something their 2 devs can work on. No what I am proposing is entirely cosmetic and should not even enable any new powers on your boffs.
One of the main concepts was that due to the ever increasing volume of space they were exploring that all the ships were on their own for long periods of time, and so the captains had far more responsibility than modern day ones who can just phone in to pass the buck up the line. That is not something that can be done when communications can take hours (or even a day or two if they are far enough away from a starbase or relay string) to get replies when the situation gives a shorter timeframe to make those decisions.
According to the insignia they had two types of commodore, the most often seen in TOS were the ones that commanded major fixed installations like starbases or operational areas (they wore the full starflower insignia, which denoted being assigned to an HQ), and the other type commanded squadrons and task groups (like commodore Decker, who wore the single-petal starflower insignia, which denoted a flagship command) though those formations were usually detached as single ships in peacetime for more coverage in exploration and antipiracy tasks.
The ones who commanded starbases could temporarily plant their flag on a ship and command it with the captain temporarily acting as first officer (the situation on the Lexington when Commodore Bob Wesley was running the M5 tests) or they could just take operational command and leave the captain to drive the ship, and the other type (like Decker) the situation would be much the same with the first officer holding the rank of captain but probably younger and being groomed for commanding a major capital ship like the Constitution class (a step that Kirk leapfrogged, which probably made him some enemies).
If they had not changed the uniforms, rank structure and insignia structure between TAS and the movies Kirk would have either worn the full starflower as a ground-based HQ admiral or possibly the single-petal version as a field admiral in TMP.
While that was funny, the fact that some real players act like wet breadsticks on TFOs like "Khitomer in Stasis", "Brotherhood of the Sword" or the new Halloween one, tells me that my Boffs have a good shot at being President of the Federation.
But to answer your actual question on "want":
Yes people wanted this for ages I've so farseen 4 recent posts on this, one in feedback that was quickly shut as "necroposting".
God forbid you ask for something twice.
I always hated how inconsistent communication was. On the one hand they get these long distance subspace messages that can take days to arrive on the other you have this notion of "patch me through" instant communication especially with recent Picard and STO. I wonder if there is an in universe explanation for this.
I miss the Commodore Rank, especially since I run an Admiral April stuck in 23c in the game
That scene in the Motion Picture of him just taking command from Decker was a real TRIBBLE move and it made me sadder for the fact we never got Phase II. Even if the Deltan would have been massively sexualised thanks to Roddenberrys "Ideas" like tri-boob Troi.
That Uniform (while naval) was a mess to begin with though and I much preferred the followup Wrath of Khan uniform which (despite modifications to things like color and collar/undershirt) seems to have been such a hit that they stayed till the TNG era.
Good clarification, still kind of sad. Seems all of these posts go to the void.
I absolutely agree!
Yes that is the consensus here, purely cosmetic!
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