I'd imagine it would be similar to a lot of factions considering that I asked for suggestions in both the SCRA Chats and the Faction Leader Chat on how I could streamline recruitment.
Believe me, I loved the old system, it was unique and had it's own style to it but the fact is, it was time-consuming and daunting. We lost too many in the last few batches because we were dealing with just 2 or 3 people.
So, we decided to make the Forum portion of it all easier to let people have a chance of actually getting in-game with us. However, to compensate for that the MIL- portion will be much harder. Before, it was just another rank really, if you made it to MIL you'd probably be fine. This time, we're assessing a lot of things before we promote you to Lieutenant. Which, after the Rank Overhauls can use up to Storm.