A blessing and a curse,
No longer an ability to tell a player from their character
Now people’s character doesn’t get stale
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I worry about implications of event rounds, or cases during grief. Maybe make it a system of demotions instead, so the character isn’t lost forever?
Also, what will the promotions do? Just ribbons? I think it might start looking clogged on the uniform (we have only got so many pixels) alongside the playtime medals. Maybe make it a one-or-the-other system?
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It’s a cool concept except there would be stinkers who would make it their mission just to end your streak. Regardless, I want more loadout points for this, maybe even loadout exclusives per rank, like a hawaiian face wrap or a custom mod 88 (white or gold colored).
As well as kept police records, medical records, and torn limbs replaced with metal ones.
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Additional loadout items tied to player progression, or background choice has been a longstanding interest of mine. Don’t quote me on this, but I’d maybe be willing to assist with sprites for this if it gets off the ground.
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I think if we go with loadout items for player progression via this, we can happily drop the rank promotion section which keeps the rank chaps happy.
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I think this is a really good idea. Has the potential to really raise our profile. Excellent work.
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TBH don’t see myself getting too into this, but Lord does it sound like an awesome idea. And unique loadout items would be sick for sure. I definitely see a future with evac pod hugging robustos, but such is life.
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I am sure it would be good for roleplay especially for the less RP-focussed groundside roles, but I believe, the permadeath should get disabled during hijack so characters with this system enabled aren’t lost forever because some commander wanted to do a glorious briefing hold instead of evacuating.
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I think that just makes for better rp. It’s always odd that marines don’t care shot life in hijjack. Plus there are clauses that let marines mutiny to get pods. Still I guess it could lead to people cryoing pre-hijack to avoid the risk
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I would love to have this in the game. What a great idea
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Thats cuz marines have nothing to lose.
Its not a biggie if they perma during hijack since the round is about to end anyways.
I think if this gets added, marines would have more reason to mutiny during evac and i think that’d be very funny to see. MORE SHIPSIDE CHAOS
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But honestly, if the CO refuses evac and does a tank bay hold, there is not enough time to form an angry mob, ahelp for permisssion, find the CO and gun him down without getting gunned down by the other “Woah, a mutiny, HvH, yeah!”-mob, strip his ID and tablet and authorize evac and then somehow get to the pods at the other end of the ship without getting queen-screeched and killed by T3s.
That is the risk you run. Deal with it. Know the COs. You can always Cryo.
There are specific rules for evac mutiny’s in order to get pods launched and they do not require admin permission as far as I can remember.
Permadeath toggle would be approved for the masochists.
Caveats:
ONLY riflemen.
No rank changes. It encroaches on SOP/ML stuff.
A notch on your medal or a special medal I’d be fine with.
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@Anclador You are indeed right, evac mutinys do not require permission, but still, marines will be almost never mutiny for evacuation because they only have two minutes to get all that done.
About the rank changes, I would even like to see marines getting a higher rank after some rounds, of course not like on TGMC that the tryhard pvt becomes the highest-ranking marine groundside and overthrows all bald squad leaders, but ICly, why would a rifleman need to specialize in either medical or engineering in order to raise in rank?
I like the idea, kinda hope officers can do this stuff (without the promotion shenanigans because that would cause chaos on lowpop) so I could be the in-house PO, but i don’t have a solution for COs because of the whole whitelist thing (i guess if the COs know how to RP, they can sort it out?? idk, I’ve never CO’d)
Would be cool- but if there’s no rank change, people would rarely, if ever, toggle it, if not to meme and stuff. Gotta give it some appeal- barely-noticeable notches are very meh.
Idea: Link the salad to your hours played medal, no promotions just drip/one time rewards, combine this to R.I.P. ///and/or/// The Road To Platinum Is A Long One!!!!! (plat ''rewards'')
R.I.P. being a one time cash reward to spend in Req
and Plat rewards being aged armor sprites to reflect service time
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