We all know that as you get play time increases you get rank increases on most roles.
Some roles you do not or stop very early to preserve the hierarchy or because it does not make sense IC. E.G a SO would never be a captain unless its some sort of punishment, because putting a captain in that role would be a waste of an experienced officer from HC’s view.
But, there are some roles that there is potentially wiggle room for allowing one last promotion to show seniority, when they reach their platinum medal.
Where do people feel these positions are, and what the associated rank should be?
You might get away with some Master Sergeant (E-8s) for QM, and Warden.
And maybe Corporal for MT and MST.
Maybe Captain for CMP and CMO as well for Captain bloatening.
They should remove all the rank increases entirely, except for the good old PVT > PFC to show new players in the rifleman role. I’d hate to see even more of them.
I personally like the addition of more ranks, it’s a nice reward for your hours spent on CM.
I think we should do something like in PvE, where you can change what rank you have, so if you want you can be a Pvt. Rifleman, or a Sgt. Specialist.
I honestly do not pay attention at all to ranks. I only pay attention to the role, and the player’s medal. Even then I only scan for medals when it matters, like a SL saying we should flank unga push. I don’t know if I am the norm or the exception.
Ranks and medals are cool flairs, and they could make up an infinite number. When I was admin for a natural selection server, the icons went up to like 10k hours (dont know if someone actually got that one.). We already have plat medals though. It would be cool if the rank came with functionality, like higher ranked chefs are now trusted to do cargo work too.
Maybe 1st Lieutenant SO, it wouldn’t break anything, and since most marines will never see their SO outside of brief, it shows their skill as an SO. I also wouldn’t mind CMP as Captain if you put that many hours into it, as a little nod to the effort Plat CMP players have put into that role.
Ranks are peak, people wanted the old naval ranks back for ages and this achieves that.
There’s already so much room for progression that most roles would be literally outranking their inexperienced superiors if we went any further though… I think it’s at a good spot now.
even tho, it can make sense, MST has better Firearms Training then ALL marines(and even CO), so I believe it is retired marine, that became mess to serve USCM ones more
Yeah it always gives me a chuckle when the MST is literally the most lethal retired MARSOC soldier with super-marksman training, and is now just stuck making fucking Papa John’s to marines who scream and spit on their food like spoiled brats.
There is legit Retired US army vet named Andre Rush who’s built like a fucking truck served as the head chef in the white house for different recent presidents. Dude is a king.
as much as I root for xenos, having a locker that unlocks with chef ID and delta alert (basically hijack only?) that contains SO level armor and MK1/AP would be great. Maybe also a soulful note in it like “For when I am forced out of retirement”.
