I agree that commendations shouldn't be tied to guardian ranks or honestly any rewards tbh. They're supposed to be there so if you wanted to complement your teammates for something, you could. Since they are tied to rewards, some players are locked out of rewards that require receiving commendations because of something they can't control, and those who just want the reward for giving commendations will just give them out randomly, which defeats the purpose of the commendation system. Personally, I don't think it would be right to punish players for not giving commendations. That would further incentivise handing them out randomly, further taking away from the meaning receiving a commendation is supposed to have. Additionally, it would punish players who aren't purposefully being stingy with their commendations. You can't give commendations to players who have already left, so if all of a player's teammates leave before they have the chance to commend them, they'd be unfairly punished. It would also unfairly punish those whose screens won't load fast enough to be able to commend their teammates. Imo, there needs to be no alternative incentives to giving or receiving commendations. People should hand them out bc they want to, not bc they want a reward or need to meet a requirement. There also needs to be more time before the commendation screen goes away bc sometimes there isn't enough time after it finally loads to actually think about who to give what (assuming I have enough time to give any in the first place). Just kinda sucks when I actually want to give commendations and just can't or have to just quickly spam them on the first guys I see, y'know?