Captain Akira Sulu is first officer of Earth Space Dock, so “canonically” in STO captains can serve under an admiral who’s in command of a starship or starbase. So yes, this should happen.
Never really understood why some people want to play as Admirals, all they do is sit around all day filing paper work, some of which are morally corrupt like Satie or complete jerks like Clancy.
Never really understood why some people want to play as Admirals, all they do is sit around all day filing paper work, some of which are morally corrupt like Satie or complete jerks like Clancy.
Commodore is a kind of admiral (what the game calls "Rear Admiral Lower Half"), and some of them have field commands (like Decker in The Doomsday Machine), enough in fact that in TOS Starfleet made separate insignia to distinguish between ground and field commodores (and possibly other admirals, since the rank is still on the sleeves).
> @phoenixc#0738 said: > Commodore is a kind of admiral (what the game calls "Rear Admiral Lower Half"), and some of them have field commands (like Decker in The Doomsday Machine), enough in fact that in TOS Starfleet made separate insignia to distinguish between ground and field commodores (and possibly other admirals, since the rank is still on the sleeves).
It grinds my gears they went with RALH and it was always defended with 'but the RL US Navy did this and that". Now canon has finally shown it's Commodore, no such thing as RALH. The game should adapt, especially since it's just a text change. But knowing how these things worked in the past, one of the two devs of STO probably has to crawl through the game code one line at a time (no search or replace feature, because) and manually change every single appearance of 'RALH' to 'Commodore' and that's impossible to do. Or something like that.
^ Memory Alpha.org is not canon. It's a open wiki with arbitrary rules. Only what can be cited from an episode is. ^
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"A filthy, mangy beast, but in its bony breast beat the heart of a warrior" - "faithful" (...) "but ever-ready to follow the call of the wild." - Martok, about a Targ
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The only workaround for now is to use a Holo Boff at captain's rank. For instance, a DSC Starfleet could roleplay as either First Officer under Captain Lorca, or Admiral with Lorca's ship as their flagship.
The option to give a boff captain pips would be cool in the Tailor, tho.
And I also out myself as somebody who prefers the title "Commodore" over "Rear Admiral, Lower Half".
Well I too would like this. Because while at the battle of Sector 001, yes there was an Admiral in command of the fleet, he wasn't on the bridge.
Infact in some space operas like Star Trek(and in real life) there is what is called a "Flag Bridge". Basically meaning when the ship is in combat or at battlestations and is flagship of an Admiral, he commands the squadron from the Flag Bridge.
So if anything there should be flag bridges in STO once we hit Admiral. And our First officer should be able to take command of the ship as a Captain.
Then ofcourse you can also have the Flag Staff which also the Chief of Staff could have the same Rank as the Captain, but the Captain of the ship has the white shoulders while our chief of staff simply has the standard Oddy uniform.
Plenty of ways to do this.
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Folks really want to appoint Captain rank to Boff that often act like this in combat?
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.
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Commodore is a kind of admiral (what the game calls "Rear Admiral Lower Half"), and some of them have field commands (like Decker in The Doomsday Machine), enough in fact that in TOS Starfleet made separate insignia to distinguish between ground and field commodores (and possibly other admirals, since the rank is still on the sleeves).
> Commodore is a kind of admiral (what the game calls "Rear Admiral Lower Half"), and some of them have field commands (like Decker in The Doomsday Machine), enough in fact that in TOS Starfleet made separate insignia to distinguish between ground and field commodores (and possibly other admirals, since the rank is still on the sleeves).
It grinds my gears they went with RALH and it was always defended with 'but the RL US Navy did this and that". Now canon has finally shown it's Commodore, no such thing as RALH. The game should adapt, especially since it's just a text change. But knowing how these things worked in the past, one of the two devs of STO probably has to crawl through the game code one line at a time (no search or replace feature, because) and manually change every single appearance of 'RALH' to 'Commodore' and that's impossible to do. Or something like that.
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The option to give a boff captain pips would be cool in the Tailor, tho.
And I also out myself as somebody who prefers the title "Commodore" over "Rear Admiral, Lower Half".
Infact in some space operas like Star Trek(and in real life) there is what is called a "Flag Bridge". Basically meaning when the ship is in combat or at battlestations and is flagship of an Admiral, he commands the squadron from the Flag Bridge.
So if anything there should be flag bridges in STO once we hit Admiral. And our First officer should be able to take command of the ship as a Captain.
Then ofcourse you can also have the Flag Staff which also the Chief of Staff could have the same Rank as the Captain, but the Captain of the ship has the white shoulders while our chief of staff simply has the standard Oddy uniform.
Plenty of ways to do this.
Star Trek Battles member. Want to roll with a good group of people regardless of fleets and not have to worry about DPS while doing STFs? Come join the channel and join in the fun!
http://forum.arcgames.com/startrekonline/discussion/1145998/star-trek-battles-channel-got-canon/p1
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 want this for ages:
https://forum.arcgames.com/startrekonline/discussion/1262012/suggestion-boff-promotion-to-captain-rank
https://arcgames.com/en/forums/startrekonline#/discussion/comment/9606855
https://arcgames.com/en/forums/startrekonline#/discussion/comment/11654771
https://arcgames.com/en/forums/startrekonline#/discussion/comment/10290891
*casts Holy Photon Torpedo*