Ability to choose your title

[Fluitaire]

I've heard tell of a wish to change the title you get from leveling to something lower. Personally I wouldn't mind being able to switch mine to grease monkey, just for the off beat humor of it vs Chief Technician. I think its something of a customization option that wouldn't be overly hard? (feel free to punch me in the face if it actually is MUSE team) to implement.

[Skrimskraw]

titles unlcokable through achievements, and removing the level system based on achievements, and putting level based to games play.

all I have to say.

[N-Sunderland]

That'd be kind of fun to play around with.

titles unlcokable through achievements, and removing the level system based on achievements, and putting level based to games play.

all I have to say.

Removing the level system would make a lot of people very, very upset.

[Skrimskraw]

That'd be kind of fun to play around with.

titles unlcokable through achievements, and removing the level system based on achievements, and putting level based to games play.

all I have to say.

Removing the level system would make a lot of people very, very upset.

even if it was games played based?

[N-Sunderland]

That'd be kind of fun to play around with.

titles unlcokable through achievements, and removing the level system based on achievements, and putting level based to games play.

all I have to say.

Removing the level system would make a lot of people very, very upset.

even if it was games played based?

I'm not sure... A lot of people work hard for those levels, and that could screw them up. I don't really see much of a problem with the current system anyways.

[RearAdmiralZill]

How is it not already gameplay based? Earning achievements requires gameplay so I dont really understand.

[Skrimskraw]

it was not to change the subject of the thread.

choosing your own title would be awesome.

I just put forward the idea of making a gap between level and title, so  you can only get titles through achievements, and level is based on the amount of experience you have (the number of games played)

[All Systems Go]

Putting in my support for being able to choose your title.

(Not supporting the weird level stuff people want to change)

[-Muse- Cullen]

I don't like the idea of people being able to lower their title, because that is all you can see within the in-game menu. If, perhaps, each level had a few different titles associated with it, I'd like that.

[Helmic]

If you let people scramble the titles, they lose their significance as rank.  Being able to tell at a glance whether someone is going to need the song and dance on how to play GoI is pretty useful too, I don't want to waste concentration explaining the game to someone that's already level 5 in that role.

[Lord Dick Tim]

As it is I already call every gunner powder monkey anyways.

[HamsterIV]

Among high level players we pretty much know who every one is. So artificially lowering your rank would only serve to confuse new players for a match or two. I could sign onto a server and say "I am a level two pilot really," then proceed to abuse the blind spots, and use pilot items so that my squid never takes a hit. They would probably figure out that I was more experienced than I was pretending to be.

[Captain Phil]

Among high level players we pretty much know who every one is. So artificially lowering your rank would only serve to confuse new players for a match or two. I could sign onto a server and say "I am a level two pilot really," then proceed to abuse the blind spots, and use pilot items so that my squid never takes a hit. They would probably figure out that I was more experienced than I was pretending to be.

I think the idea is that your current level is still show, but you can change your title so you have the name "Chief Engineer” instead of “Specialist," and still have it showing you as level 10 and not 9.

[Helmic]

Among high level players we pretty much know who every one is. So artificially lowering your rank would only serve to confuse new players for a match or two. I could sign onto a server and say "I am a level two pilot really," then proceed to abuse the blind spots, and use pilot items so that my squid never takes a hit. They would probably figure out that I was more experienced than I was pretending to be.

I imagine this would be the main reason a lot of people would want to adjust their ranks, sandbagging, even if it only works mid-match.

[nake]

Changing that confuses when in-flight (where the level is not shown).
And, part of the level experience is the title you get, so I'm sorry but I'm against the possibility of changing your title to whatever you like.

If you don't like the current titles, why don't we propose new (and funnier) ones for higher levels?