Just a thought but with the introduction of player owned Tridents, the eventual release of the other cappies and a new type of cappie in the works... maybe a
"Captains License" might be a cool thing.

Just another licence level, it would dictate what type of cappies you could have.

I figure you'd have to be a member of your nations military and complete several skirmishes or cappie related missions (4-8) per month or maybe you would start to lose points.

[EDIT] License requirement for Captains license eligibility: Combat 10
[EDIT] Enemy standing -900 and national +999

+1
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i like it and i'll elaborate a bit on the idea tomorrow.

edit* damnit alloh that was pretty much what I wanted to post.

+1, interesting idea, but imo make these missions reqs at least 10 combat

+1 but make 2 types of license, the military and civilian grades.

Military Captains should be in military, have destroyed X enemy capitals, taken N skirmishes, Combat:10, Heavy:10, enemy standing <-600 and local >800... so on...

Civilian Captains should have TRADE:10, Heavy:8, Combat:8 and local standing >800.

That leads us to having 2 classes of cappies, military/civilian. Military Captain "includes" civilian license.