“ On the flip side, T6 ships scaling across levels now is also kind of immersion breaking in its own right, which is kind of entangled in the rank piece. Giving a lieutenant command of a recommissioned Miranda from 100 years ago or similar T1 ship seems more plausible than putting a lieutenant in... ”
“ Having a rank tab would be such a great simple feature to keep immersion.
The rank system in STO always bothered me. If it would be possible I would stay Captain for most of my toons. What I do is to rank my characters as Admiral in line with my UFP rank and mostly avoiding the Fleet Admiral... ”
“ head cannon for my characters is that only a few of them are actually members of starfleet. only the ones that are have rank on uniforms and i tend to cap them at captains. it is a bit immersion breaking when everything refers to you as admiral though... i have long wondered why they dont have a... ”
“ I didn't realize this at first. Just so everyone is aware, you get some freebies by linking your Amazon account and Steam account. You have to go into Amazon and claim it, but it looks like there may be more to claim down the line. ”
“ I just rp my characters at different ranks....it is what it is, it's a game. Starfleet Admirals don't fly around killing hundreds of thousands of Terran ships on a daily basis, but it's a game so it would be boring to do 99% peaceful missions...but I guess it gets boring doing 99% killer missions... ”
“ Amazon seems like they would be likely to try to capitalize on the higher profile IP in this acquisition, so sounds promising for the future of Stargate now that this has wrapped up. Also nice to know that MGM's library of content will eventually gravitate towards a streaming service I already... ”
“ At least for my own headcanon I usually assume my character exists outside the normal military structure and use of any rank badges are part of my cover story. For example my Fed Tac is a Section 31 operative, my Fed Sci is a Daniels-like temporal agent, etc. It also makes it easier to believe the... ”