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KAGEHOSHI Horned Wolf
Dominion of the Supreme Emperor God-King KAGEHOSHI
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Posted - 2014.12.29 21:30:00 -
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Lore-wise they are pretty stupid. Were not part of a military, we're just mercenaries, yet somehow we get military ranks. It would be one thing if the corporations we belonged to gave us ranks (since corps are essentially private militaries), but everyone just gets these ranks from seemingly nowhere.
Military ranks denote some sort of hierarchical command structure, yet mercs don't necessarily operate with any command structure. We get ranks like "Brigadier", yet we're not in charge of brigades.
I'm willing to pretend that there is some organization in New Eden that gives us these ranks (probably CONCORD), but the names need to change:
The term "Loyalty Ranks" is an odd name since "loyalty" usually means something related to faction warffare (like the Loyalty Store, and Loyalty Points). In the lore, what does the "Loyalty" in "Loyalty Rank" referring to anyway? Instead of "loyalty ranks", it should just be called "Mercenary Rating".
The rank titles should be changed to something that does not denote responsibilities that we don't have. The ranks should just reflect our experience and abilities. Example:
MERCENARY RANKS
1) Recruit Tier 1
2) Recruit Tier 2
3) Combatant Tier 1
4) Combatant Tier 2
5) Advanced Tier 1
6) Advanced Tier 2
7) Veteran Tier 1
8) Veteran Tier 2
9) Interstellar Threat (perhaps CONCORD thinks you're too dangerous and powerful a merc, and keep an eye on you)
10) Legendary
More interesting and varied names can be done than the examples I gave, but you get the point.
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KAGEHOSHI Horned Wolf
Dominion of the Supreme Emperor God-King KAGEHOSHI
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Posted - 2014.12.29 23:34:00 -
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Forlorn Destrier wrote:Mercenary bands do use ranks like this. Sorry, but no go on this.
Now, if you come up with something better than "tier" plus number, I might reconsider.
Mercenary ranks do have ranks like this, I know that, but you're missing the point. Even if you haven't part of a mercenary corp in Dust, you still have the ranks, that doesn't make sense. Even if you are part of of mercenary corp in Dust, the ranks are totally irrelevant to your position in the corp, someone with the rank of general could be the lowest ranking member of the corp, which makes the word "general" meaningless. I'm fine with corporation members having titles like these if those ranks are provided internally by the corporation's CEO or directors, but this is not currently how it works.
Futhermore, I already explained that my suggestions were just examples.
I'm not even sure you fully read my original post because I covered your complaints.
No one should be titled things like general unless they're in charge of leading an army.
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KAGEHOSHI Horned Wolf
Dominion of the Supreme Emperor God-King KAGEHOSHI
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Posted - 2014.12.30 00:14:00 -
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ADAM-OF-EVE wrote:these are loyalty ranks to the game not to any corp/faction etc.
Which is breaking it's own lore. Changing some names and titles around won't hurt anything, and will make things more internally consistent.
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KAGEHOSHI Horned Wolf
Dominion of the Supreme Emperor God-King KAGEHOSHI
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Posted - 2014.12.30 01:06:00 -
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ADAM-OF-EVE wrote:KAGEHOSHI Horned Wolf wrote:ADAM-OF-EVE wrote:these are loyalty ranks to the game not to any corp/faction etc. Which is breaking it's own lore. Changing some names and titles around won't hurt anything, and will make things more internally consistent. but a change to a name/title doesn't change what the loyalty rank is for. you could call them all scrub 1-15 and it will be no different to private upto whatever lvl15 is or whatever names you come up with. ifs its just a name change your after then perhaps they should just call them level1-15 and be done with it
What do you think I was after?
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KAGEHOSHI Horned Wolf
Dominion of the Supreme Emperor God-King KAGEHOSHI
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Posted - 2014.12.30 04:44:00 -
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Miokai Zahou wrote:True Adamance wrote:Miokai Zahou wrote:I like my rank leave it alone. I don't like your rank so change it. But to what I ask? I like my rank as is because it shows the dedication I've placed into this game which can be reflected in kill feeds and my increased rewards. Don't worry though I'll be reaching rank 12 soon anyway.
I don't know why you're so hung up on the specifics.
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KAGEHOSHI Horned Wolf
Dominion of the Supreme Emperor God-King KAGEHOSHI
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Posted - 2014.12.30 04:45:00 -
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Ydubbs81 RND wrote:notr necessary....military ranks are fine the way they are. Much more important things to change, fix, update than the names of the levels we've earned.
Right, like changing a few names takes thaaaat much time and resources that it would detract from more important work 
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KAGEHOSHI Horned Wolf
Dominion of the Supreme Emperor God-King KAGEHOSHI
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Posted - 2015.01.01 19:32:00 -
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Arkena Wyrnspire wrote:While we're at it, can we fix the system so a -ú10 AUR pack isn't worth more loyalty rank points than 5,000 battles?
Agreed
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