(09-09-2014, 03:02 AM)Seriphyn Wrote: The list goes on, but in short, one doesn't HAVE to RP the rank the game tells you you're at, and it might be rewarding! See what happens when a character is disciplined or ordered around by a character of higher rank! The player doesn't like having their character ordered around? They probably shouldn't be roleplaying in a military organization in the first place...
I agree with pretty much all your points, especially this. I had really hoped that new and higher ranks would become available to us at 2.3, but sadly no. (If you right click on your rank insignia in Profile Menu, it'll actually show you all the available Foreign Brigade ranks available to the player. In-case someone in here didn't already know.) So my main character was a Storm Captain before she went MIA in the Calamity. The rank isn't yet available but I play it anyways. And Saehri, my other character, while the game forces her OOCly to join a GC, she has no IC military inclinations. Nor will she ever. I like playing it this way.
For me it's fun to balance the responsibilities of being a Storm Captain versus having none with my other character. I report to an NPC Commander, and wear a made-up version of what I think a Storm Captain would look like. (Storm Elite Bicorne, Lieutenant Coat, mix and match of Elite and Lieutenant mostly.) Sadly, there are no Storm Captains represented in game. Pirate Captains aplenty, but no Storm Captains...
I will say, what sucks most about playing as a Maelstrom is that outside of the Coat Uniform (which I've always viewed as a more formal uniform dress as opposed to what one would wear in combat/fieldwork) Maelstrom don't get much representation in the field. Almost all of the Barricuda we see out in La Noscea are all Yellowjackets. (aka 1st Squadron) If you belong to 3rd or 5th Squadron for example, you don't have any in-game representation of what your character should dress like for fieldwork.
