Erchamion

What an awesome story I propose that the sole survivor medal be named Star of Picard And that there should be at least 7 dead or unconscious other soldiers for the soldier to get it. Another medal I would like to see is a Combat Medic Medal. I think that these medals and ribbons should be very rare and hard to get and that the developers shouldn't tell people how to get them, it should be a pleasant surprise when your soldiers get them.

Yeah I also liked the promotions in XCOM, for the most part. What I didn't like was the Rookie and Squaddie rank names, I also think that there should have been at least one but preferably 3 ranks between the Sergeant and the Captain ranks, plus I think that Captain should have been the highest rank. +1 to this

If your going to have all your soldiers be the same rank then sergeant would be a much better rank, having all your soldiers being captains would just be plain stupid. And yeah there is no chain of command in the game but a pyramid structure would give an illusion that there is which would make the game more fun to play for some people, like me for instance.

You could have an experience level needed to get to the next rank and going on missions granting a base experience: Soldier not going on missions not gaining any experience, never level up. Soldier going on mission but stay on Chinook all mission, 10 missions to level up. Soldier going on mission doing average exploring/killing, 6-7 missions to level up. Soldier going on mission doing heavy exploring/killing, 3-4 missions to level up. You could also have it so you need 21 soldiers to unlock the LT rank, 41 soldiers to unlock the second LT spot and 61 soldiers to unlock the CPT rank.Then depending on how many soldiers you have you could add a second CPT at 101 and even a Major at 121-141 soldiers.

I have played the demo a couple of times now, and having 4-5 Captain's and the rest of the soldiers being Sergeant's after 10 mission doesn't feel quite right. Therefore I propose a rank progression similar to this, keeping in mind that a Captain probably is the highest ranking officer of an elite special forces army that would be out in the field with the soldiers: Private- soldier without training or experience Private First Class/Lance Corporal- soldier with training or soldier without training but with 5 missions as Pvt Corporal- soldier with 5 missions as PFC/LCpl Sergeant- soldier with 5 missions as Cpl Staff Sergeant- soldier with 5 missions as Sgt, there can be only 20 SSgt's Gunnery Sergeant/Master Sergeant- soldier with 5 missions as SSgt, there can be only 10 GySgt's/MSgt's Sergeant Major/Warrant Officer- soldier with 10 missions as GySgt/MSgt,there can be only 5 SgtMaj's/WO's Lieutenant- soldier with 10 missions as SgtMaj/WO, there can be only 2 Lt's Captain- soldier with 20 missions as Lt, there can be only 1 Cpt If there are more than one soldier up for promotion but only 1 spot the one with most kills/medals/experience should get promoted. Exceptional soldiers(kills/medals/experience) should of course have a chance to be promoted before they have reached the required number of missions for the next rank. And for the starting 12 soldiers I think that this would be a good blend: 1 SGT, 3 CPL, 4 PFC/LCpl, 4 Pvt