Hello guys,
As I was a bit tired of using unhistorical pilots ranks for some of the offline campaigns I play, I began to modify sligtly the corresponding rank.properties files.
As an example, concerning the french air force, original ranks are from Aspirant to Colonel. Actually, very few officers of rank above Commandant (which stands for Major) flew in operations with the Arm
anyone can use his own ranks, the files are just open text files everyone can write into so what exactly should a mod do here?
you mean a common sense so all you one set of new ranks? i d not think this will draw people in.
I am with you that esp. for German and japanese the original set needs correction but the Japanese just would need fewer ranks or less promotion.
on the other hand, the promotion system... (as well as with the awards)
a static campaign can span 3 years in 30 missins or need 200.... how can any automatic promotion system adapt to that?
sometimes it fits, sometimes it's off. mostly when you have to start a campaign as group leader you have to start high in rank anyway.
I agree with you, this is not really a mod since anybody can do this very easily and it won't really impact campaigns. You just have to give indications just like select highest rank or lowest rank or second lowest etc. rather than select group captain or whatsoever. But this is a detail.
Concerning promotion within offline campaign, i agree with you again, very difficult to set in a realistic way. On the other hand, we do not really need it except in some cases (simulate the carrer of a particular ace). The same for awards...
So i think this topic is closed!
