Ensigns for free?

[nomad_delta]

Has anyone else noticed that Ensigns almost always cost 0 renown? Is this a bug, or did they do that on purpose for some reason?

nomad_delta

[GTHammer]

Don't think this would be a bug. Even if everyone in the Navy hated your guts and you had no 'pull' you'd still get sailors for your boat.

[switch.dota]

Funny fact is that there are also some high ranked sailors that 'cost' 0 valor.

[JALU3]

Ensigns are like Specialist in the Army . . . so many of them . . . so little experience as compared to seasoned crewmembers.

For example:
http://pvtmurphy.com/strips/full/58-when-to-worry.jpg
and
http://pvtmurphy.com/strips/full/57-Meeting-the-LT.jpg

Ensign or 2LT . . . they are still butter bars . . . they have just as much operational experiance as a PO3 or a SPC. They have great potential, just as any crewmember has, but as the latter script states.

Reminds me of a store of what happened to a 2LT who pulled rank on a CSM. The CSM had to obey, but the 2LT had to answer to the COL afterwords. That musn't have been pretty.