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To my fellow Community members.... I know we all have our own ideas and specific smaller ways of the above ideas, however, to really get results we need to be short and consistent. Please only say if you agree or disagree with the below points but do not elaborate as that can take away from the results and cost votes. Lets first establish that we want these things expanded and then let the devs come out with a way to vote for the actual changes. #1 Expand the rank system to include more ranks..... #2 Expand the medals (such a great feature) #3 Create a memorial wall so we can see our fallen soldiers Guys Please keep this focused, there have been multiple threads and they all break down on the specifics of what happens after these things..I am pleading with you here....lets establish we want all 3 of the above things to happen, and let the devs come to us with options we can vote on once they see we would in fact like all 3 of these to be expanded.

I thought I would create a topic on this subject, what makes you attached to your soldiers? How can this be encouraged even more through in-game systems/features? Personally I think that getting attached to your soldiers is an important step to getting you seriously hooked on the game and makes you keep coming back to more and also makes you feel scared when doing missions because you are so attached to them! Soldier progression (leveling/stat increases) is of course an important part of this but there are already posts on this subject so that is best discussed there, what I would like this thread to focus on is stuff besides that, more "fluff" material so to speak. An example I could think of is for example your soldiers earning individual awards/medals and creating their own history and/or having their own personality. This shouldn't be something that is forced into the player's face but something you can check up if you are the kind of player that wants to know these things, I'm thinking in lines of Dwarf Fortress here for example where your Dwarfs basically have likes/dislikes as well as any notable action they perform (or injury they get) will be recorded in the background of their guy, this is not vital to the actual gameplay however but it can a lot of times be very interesting to read and will make them feel more "real" Now how much of stuff like this is too much? Is the time needed to add something like soldier history/background etc. etc. not worth it? What do you all think? Personally I love this kind of stuff and I know that a lot of people making Let's Play series do as well. Another example of games adding uniqueness/personality/attachment to your soliders is Jagged Alliance 2, there every character had their own personality and quirks and this made them much more lovable (or hate-able) and thus you got more attached to them... Basically I think that them just being more then just a stat sheet that you min/max would be a good idea but this is just my opinion. What do you all think?