Would you like the Idea of Leveling up a Soldier’s Class (e.g., Sniper 1 Sniper II) to be put into the Game, “Enlisted,” especially if you have a Soldier you love and don’t want to give up for a higher level soldier?
Maybe make the player have to press a button to do it, perhaps call it “promote”. Because personally I don’t have my assaulter 4 level cap unlocked on most nations so I wouldn’t want my assaulter 3s turning into assaulter 4s and becoming useless to me.
Also the base perks of each level of assaulter are different, for example I think the assaulter 3 base perk is 15% medpack speed but every other number assaulters base perk is different. But I think this could be a cool feature if a promoted soilder kept the base perk of each previous level. For example a soilder who started as a assaulter 2 would have each assaulter’s base perk by the time he became a assaulter 4, meaning it’d be worth the extra effort to train a soilder from assaulter 2 all the way to assaulter 4 instead of just buying a assaulter 4 soilder.
Not gonna happen
Or players will spam purchasing lv1 soldier to get max perk, then only leveling up selected soldier.
This will greatly reduce the grind of getting a top tier max perk soldier, and you really think DF will let this happen?