"Greeting, Rear Admiral, Lower Half Janeway!"
Is there some way to make it so people call us by our PREFERRED title, and not our exact rank? I think it sounds just horrible to be called "Rear Admiral, Lowerhalf <name>", especially if you roleplay a Commander or an Operative or a Medic, etc.
If there is no switch or setting that I am missing, maybe there should be.
The titles that we earn are very cool, and I'd really love our preferred title to show up in all dialouge. I know I'm the only one who sees this, but it is really immersion breaking. Obsession is part of the game, isn't it?
After all, I'd much rather see, "Greetings, Torpedo Target Janeway!"

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Well actually they should call us only Admiral, as long as they're not higher ranked.
I suppose the question would be is the characters first name "Kathryn" or "Catherine".?
So supposedly it will happen, but it's not a major priority so don't expect it soon.
They actually said that? Very nice to hear.
I also want to point out that I don't just want it to be the brief "Admiral" or "Rear Admiral" but also to allow for everything from Torpedo Target <name> to Captain <name> (some of us want to STAY Captains FOREVER, you know!)
And NO I do not have a character named Janeway. That was just a joke, eh?
It's been addressed a few times. Here is one of the earliest responses by Dstahl (from when Rear Admiral Upper/Lower was still just on Tribble)...
Uh... didn't everyone? After all, we know as soon as she got home, she retired and started popping out babies like no tomorrow.
How else would you explain all these descendants of hers?:p
But I agree, unless it has to be formal, why can't they call you commander or admiral? Theyve allowed us to use a nickname instead of a full name for our Captain and crew for the purpose of shortening the text, so why not rank and possibly ship? (as having your fleet tag or a letter after your ship name in conversation does look out of place)
Thanks for putting me off my breakfast. :mad:
Just as James T. Kirk is not the first nor the last James T. Kirk
I like this idea, because I roleplay that I am a first officer, and want to keep being addressed as commander even as I level.
Correct.
I want to stay Captain. Or be an Attache. FOr me, Admiral is ho-hum.
Cool, I like that idea. How do you do it? As in roleplay a first officer?
But hey, thank goodness they are calling me Captain instead of Admiral!
Too bad we can't control our title and how we're addressed.
More appropriately, all prefixes and suffixes to ranks should be dropped during conversations with NPCs. Specifically, the "Lieutenant" in Lieutenant Commander and the "Rear" "Vice" "Lower Half" and "Upper Half" in the Admiral ranks.
Especially when It's a dignitary from anothe rgovernment or a stranger to you. The exact title isn't as important as "I'm a Captain" or " I'm an Admiral."
I've wondered about the implementation. It confirms that coupling rank and level from the beginning was a mistake and should inform future design decisions to avoid being painted into more corners like this in the future.
I would hope Cryptic at least gets to the point where they distinguish between RANKNAME and MINIMUMLEVELNAME if they insist on still having names for levels/tiers. The two uses sited are semantically different and need different names. They could also create all new tag names, use them in the Foundry, and remediate old missions while doing revamps; they don't break things horribly to fix this. It's a solvable problem.
However, there are already numerous places where text say things like "creates a Level 10 Phaser Turret" or the like. I suppose "Creates an Rear Admiral, Upper Half Phaser Turret" sounds a little strange. I would prefer the terminology be consistent, so I'd use level where level is the actual governing attribute.
Please, Cryptic, separate rank from level.
UDPATE
I undersand dstahl's perspective: this is a small thing in itself that touches many things. It's expensive to fix in raw rework and potential bugs any change can introduce. However, this kind of issue only gets worse (i.e., more expensive to fix) over time; new missions, new functionality (e.g., Foundry), and new factions introduce more things that will need rework.
The probability this will get addressed decreases over time because the cost of fixing it increases over time.
Or just get rid of all rank-titles above Captain. <,<