Ranks in game

[solidfury7]

The rank structure works fine.

[apophis775]

And it won't be changing anytime soon.

[Simo94]

its works even better if you aren't american aswell, since we tend to eat whatever you feed us

[Hastati]

The only rank change I would ask for right now would be regular Pvt to exist as a sorta introductory rank to the server, sorta like how other servers time delay better roles. Play a few rounds, maybe 4 or 5, before you're allowed to step into the big boy toys, so that you can get a feel for the server culture and how rounds progress. Only problem is how you'd integrate that with the way job roles are set up could be a issue, as you'd need a job below squad marine that would IC make sense as well as serving the OOC role, and then you'd need to figure out a way to exclude people past the learning period.

Actually a cadet program would be really nice, similar to what some of the HRP servers have. Which would be especially helpful as CM is closed source and thus players can't run a private server to dick around with various things to experiment. A job where you join any department as a junior member whose job is to learn the job both IC and OOC over the course of your duties under the guidance of more experienced crew, but that's a discussion for another day and outside the scope of this conversation.

[apophis775]

PVT exists right now as a "demotion" rank.

[Jroinc1]

It always looked kinda weird to me, what with the marine enlisted ranks, and navy officer ranks in the same service, but I can understand it, and it works.

[Philby0]

PVT exists right now as a "demotion" rank.

Heeeey I didn't know that. Gonna be useful someday. Dealing with demotion is a fucking headache most of the time.

[Mobius_None]

Realistically, the extra Platoon Leader could be taken as that extra fifth SO that is then tasked with being responsible for the FOB and insuring everything works smoothly on the ground. If we were to add a Company 1SG to complete the Top 3(instead of our current Top 2 CO and XO), they could be responsible for the discipline and training of the Marines; like an IC Mentor and additionally could deploy with the Marines to "lead the charge" basically what the CO would normally deploy to do. Perhaps even a whitelisted position.