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a question on changes to the board

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I have made a set of rank icons for another board, and I think they may work well here. If you don't know what a rank icon is, it's those flags under your name over there on the left.

Not that I don't mind the flags currently used, but the names associated with them dosn't seem to imply any order and have lead to some confusion.

So how do you all feel about changing to something like these.

Standard Ranks
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Image Cadet
Image Private
Image Private First Class
Image Corporal
Image Sergeant
Image Staff Sergeant
Image Gunnery Sergeant
Image Master Sergeant
Image Sergeant Major
Image Master Cheif
Image Ensign
Image Lieutenant
Image Captain
Image Major
Image Colonel
Image Brigadier General
Image Major General
Image Lieutenant General
Image General
Image Insane

Special Ranks

Developers
Image Dev Monkey
Image Dev Guru
Image Dev Wizard

Stupid people
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Site Admins
Image CNC
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I like 'em!!!

I say go for it :)
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yes this would be for the non custom ones.
anyone with a custom rank would not change
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wonder if i can find some custom ski ranks...ill hafta look...:)
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well I went ahead and did it.

It's kinda nice to see the order of rankings better.

Ski, you best be saluting Legolas now :)
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cool change!

just hope I am not the only one keeping BZFlag Arbiter on the left there
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you are.

I will reset you to normal.

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whimpers that the other ranking (Lieutenant) was better hehe
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just make 3x more posts :)
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Looks good Pat! A little more orderly than the previous ranking system.
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Patlabor221 wrote:well I went ahead and did it.

It's kinda nice to see the order of rankings better.

Ski, you best be saluting Legolas now :)
LOL, hopefully he wont have me doing pushups or anything like that :)

Yeah, I like this system
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hmmmm, i like the new symbols, a little smaller would be nice.........just an opinion.
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i like them just the way they are :) ..... great work pat i love the new ranting system :)

and BTW: why are we using air force ranking? why not Army? basically the same concept, but Army also has Warrent Officers, and stuff like Gunnery Sergeant = Platoon Sergeant, and Master Cheif= Sergeant Magor of the Army...etc

just a thought....but i really do like the ensigna!! too cool, much better than before :)
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Maybe it's because we drive tanks that can jump, and fall from great heights. :shock:

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big barrel wrote:i like them just the way they are :) ..... great work pat i love the new ranting system :)

and BTW: why are we using air force ranking? why not Army? basically the same concept, but Army also has Warrent Officers, and stuff like Gunnery Sergeant = Platoon Sergeant, and Master Cheif= Sergeant Magor of the Army...etc

just a thought....but i really do like the ensigna!! too cool, much better than before :)
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And the Army dosn't have Stargate Teams, or teleporter technology :)

but it's not a real airforce ranking
if it was there would be no "private" (army), we would have "airman" (airforce). Ensign is from the navy ( Second Lieutenant is kinda a stupid name IMHO :) )

I made a combination of all of them, since not everyone here is in the US, it kinda made sense to make one that wesn't an exact replica of any one miliary, but I don't know how they do ranks in other places around the world.

so think of it as just the International Tank Corps. :)

The images are larger then the older ones, but it seems that avatars are geting larger, so I make the ranks keep up ( they are now 100 wide as oposed to the old 64 wide ). They are PNGs so if you use IE they will look like crap. I am working on that tho.
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hehe, ok you have a point :D ... i like the size btw :D
excellent idea! another thing: can you post the link to see how many postes each rank requires?

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i like it because there as so many ranks and your not stuck on the same rank forever...:)
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hehe i like being a sergeant major..... maybe i can be a permanant bz sergeant major :D
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This is the list of the standard ranks
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dev and specail ranks are not listed.
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you could have the rank image as a perminant, but not the name, the name is tied to the standard rank. you will be a Master Cheif in 17 more posts.
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wow, im getting up there :)
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lol, how come SGI gets to reamain such a good drinker?? lol
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his rank is custom, anyone who dosn't have a "normal" rank is set to custom. Custom ranks don't change.
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Post by JeffM »

I just got done doing a cleanup of old inactive accounts. and the ranks look to fill out like this:

We have:
2 Lt. Generals
1 Brigadeir General
2 Colonels
2 Majors
1 Lieutenant
4 Sergeant Majors
5 Master Sergeants
2 Gunnery Sergeants
6 Staff Sergeants
7 Sergeants
6 Corporals
20 Privates First Class
30 Privates
79 Cadets
68 Recruits


based on the post count alone, some people have custom ranks, but this takes it into account if they did not. This also includes the 4 CNCs
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