Has SE basically dropped any furter progress with GC's?

[Angelhearth]

I've been fooling around with my squadron for a while, but after I became captain there's not much fun with it anymore. I buy the odd stuff, and Ventures, Ventures, and more Ventures, with the green stuff that drops from quick explorations (whenever I need it), but other than that, nothing. Kind of sad, it was somewhat fun to take the squadron out on missions and I seriously got heartbroken when I fired a member the other day.

[Canadane]

It took us a long time to get the Captain rank.
The next step up is going to have you what, do administrative paperwork?

I'm sure it'll come along eventually but I don't see us getting it soon, you know?

[Edax]

It took us a long time to get the Captain rank.
The next step up is going to have you what, do administrative paperwork?

I'm sure it'll come along eventually but I don't see us getting it soon, you know?

Hey, if the rank of Major comes with a sweet military uniform, I'm all for it.

[Jin-]

Hey, if the rank of Major comes with a sweet military uniform, I'm all for it.

Gimme that now

[Anienai]

Hey, if the rank of Major comes with a sweet military uniform, I'm all for it.

The Major from my favorite show (Gits). You are my second fav poster on this forum.

[Morningstar1337]

The ranks tend to be slow to roll out. I presume its because we know exactly. how many there are. As such I predict that the final rank will arrive only at the original end of the game (as in the intended last expansion bar surprised continuations).

Another factor is the likleyhood of future ranks being tied to Squadrons, which I don't think got an update since Stormblood and seems to be neglected in favor of trusts.

[Valkyrie_Lenneth]

The ranks tend to be slow to roll out. I presume its because we know exactly. how many there are. As such I predict that the final rank will arrive only at the original end of the game (as in the intended last expansion bar surprised continuations).

Another factor is the likleyhood of future ranks being tied to Squadrons, which I don't think got an update since Stormblood and seems to be neglected in favor of trusts.

To be fair, its kind of hard to tie GC rank into anything when you are on a whole different world. I'd expect them to start back up with 6.0, when we are back to doing stuff on the source.

[ItMe]

I think that first they're trying to think of what they could DO with them.
Like, it needs to be worthwhile or why add it, but it's also gonna be coming at the end of a pretty significant grind for anyone who's not already at the current max rank, so they can't make it TOO important to have.

[Amnmaat]

Or just implement a medals system instead of more ranks. Start adding medals as you level up your Squadron and GC.
Next step to get more medals in my opinion would be to add more achievements tied to them involving Fates and field monsters (like the Hunting log).

[TheMightyMollusk]

The Grand Companies have had minimal involvement in the story since ARR and still only have gear up to level 50 (and even that's horribly outclassed by Ironworks gear). Make 'em relevant again.