Player Rank Re-Work

[nicksmithcc]

After hitting Rank 7 (Captain, USA) Today. One thing has been very obvious to me.. the rank structure feels "correct" in the low to mid ranks.. but once you hit rank 7, it just gets weird.

 

Rank 7 can field a maximum crew of 350. That is 70 more then the Belle Poule/Frigate (Wasted crew much?) and 77% of a Constitution.... then once you hit rank 8, you can field 650.. up to a 3rd rate, effectively skipping 4th rate SOL completely... Why would you sail a constitution when you can effectively sail a 3rd rate 74? ..

 

My suggestion is.. please increase Rank 7 crew to 450, this would allow us to properly crew a 4th rate, which we should be doing at this rank. the top 3 ranks feel fine, you progress from 3rd rate to 2nd rate to 1st rate in that order, which is correct. It just feels very weird going 5th rate to 3rd/2nd/1st.

 

Thanks for hearing me out and other then this the game has been a total blast to me..

 

Slay

 

 

[Ronald Speirs]

There is already topics about this, what you are suggesting is the old ranking system pretty much, flag captain was 450 and commodore was 800 from memory and most would skip the 3rd rates and go straight to first or 2nd rates, all they need to do is slip another rank in possibly but there a quite a few that prefer the connie over the 3rd rates.

[Prater]

The point isn't the more and bigger guns, the better.  If you like more and bigger guns, go 74/Bellona.  If you prefer a faster ship that is a really heavy frigate, go Coni.

[Ruthless4u]

IIRC the devs are possibly adding some more ranks, which should shake things up a bit.

[Hexxus674]

Alternatively they could add a percentage based crew system. If you are halfway between rank 7 and 8 you would get a number of crew halfway between 350 and 650 or 500 crew. To make it easier on the system maybe go in 10% increments?

[Aetrion]

The rank structure is definitely messed up. There are several ships that require 280 crew that effectively don't have an associated rank at all. 

 

I kind of wish they would add like 10 "Sub levels" to each rank and have your crew go up a little more gradually, so that there is a right time for every ship, rather than these weird huge jumps by 100+ people, and then sometimes you only get 30.