More thoughts on the question : just for flavour & fun, I am considering the option of assigning a minimal rank for officers on each designed class, either commercial or military. But as for commercial designs, I wonder if it has any impact on existing or forecoming ships.
e.g : let's say I have a Freighter class ThisAndThat and I set it to "Minimum Rank and Class Priority" == (Lieutenant Commander, 1)
I can easily assign any of my several unassigned Lieutenant-Commanders to my own ThisAndThat freighters. But what about the civilian ThisAndThat stuff built and used by private companies ? Will they be stuck by this setting, will they auto-use some unassigned commanders, or will they ignore the constraint (maybe those goddamned foocking civilians have their own SOF-like officers, after all...) ?
Also, what does the "class priority" means here ? Is it a priority when Aurora auto-assigns officers to ships, or something else ?