(09-09-2014, 01:56 PM)Aya Wrote: I think discussion of the in-game ranks versus in-character ranks should be pretty obvious.. I mean "everyone" is a 2nd Lt. for the exact same reason that "everyone" is level 50. MMO game mechanics do not translate well into a world defined by varied ability and varied experience.This is something you see a lot of in games where rank is an integral part of the leveling experience. In Star Trek Online, for example, all max rank Federation characters carry the title Admiral. It's of course ludicrous that everyone is an Admiral, so most people play their IC ranks as far lower than that (mostly Commanders and Captains, as most players want to retain ship command ICly).
FF is a little bit of a special case, in that everyone has a GC rank they've obtained as part of leveling their character, but it's not a really integral part of the experience. I think that's part of why it's not so widely acknowledged that IC GC rank should be different than OOC GC rank.
