Further feature idea...

[DD_Fenrir]

Hi Pat,

 

Would it be a) possible and b) desirable to add a feature to allow the user/admin of PWCG to 'promote' select pilots ahead of the slated mission thresholds?

 

In our current co-op campaign, we run the rule that if your persona dies or gets medically discharged, your new persona joins the squadron as a 2 Lt. - this gives an opportunity for everyone to have a go at leading an element/flight/squadron should losses occur (whether they want the honour or not!)

 

  However, one squadron had a couple of bad missions and took an unusual toll of the senior ranks. Thus we have an abundance of 1st/2nd Lts but no Major and one Captain. It would be nice to be able to 'promote' our current Captain to Major as he's essentially the squadron CO anyway and similarly bump a  couple of the 1st Lts to Captain to takeover the flights. Otherwise we have some 9-10 more missions to fly before PWCG will do it for us.

 

I can imagine that this could also be useful in SP as the PWCG player could as a CO if he loses a valued flight leader promote an AI persona.

 

Thoughts?

[PatrickAWlson]

PWCG will already treat the captain as the major - i.e. highest ranking pilot is CO.  Having said that rank is just a number (0 for commander to 3 or 4 or 5 depending on the service).  That could be done.  The most difficult part is the UI.