July 5, 200520 yr swiffHost.addRank 0 0 0 1 RANK_0 swiffHost.addRank 1 500 0 2 RANK_1 swiffHost.addRank 2 1000 1 3 RANK_2 swiffHost.addRank 3 10500 2 4 RANK_3 swiffHost.addRank 4 25000 3 5 RANK_4 swiffHost.addRank 5 50000 4 6 RANK_5 swiffHost.addRank 6 75000 5 7 RANK_6 swiffHost.addRank 7 150000 6 9 RANK_7 swiffHost.addRank 8 150000 6 9 RANK_8 swiffHost.addRank 9 250000 7 12 RANK_9 swiffHost.addRank 10 250000 7 12 RANK_10 swiffHost.addRank 11 250000 7 12 RANK_11 swiffHost.addRank 12 2500000 9 13 RANK_12 If you are really good, and you make 100 points per hour, it will take you 25 000 hours to reach rank 12. If you play 40 hours per week, at the same rate (100 pts/hour), you will reach level 12 in more than 12 years! As an example, Player Mike has about 125 points per hour, but he plays only 2.7 hours per day (less than 20 hours per week). At this rate, Player Mike will reach rank 12 in about 20 years. But he should reach rank 3 in less than 1 week, and rank 4 in about 7 weeks. I played a game called planetside that took about 3 months to reach level 20 if you played about 5 to 6 hours a night every night. I believe this is too long. I and alot of others have to work to feed our addiction to this game, but points should be more realistic for a average player to make. I dont mind working to make level 12 in 6 months but this is crazy! Something that I found at 'BF2World.net' this is stupid
July 5, 200520 yr yeah this is also gonna be a problem for deciding commanders since no one is gonna get up there, so everyone will be about the same rank. it would have been cool to have more ranks in less ammount of time but still have one with that many points, just more in between
July 5, 200520 yr Rank 12 is probably president. http://vd9.net/bf2ranks/images/rank_11_icon.jpgSergeant Major of the Corps
July 5, 200520 yr No, this was a VERY good idea on EA's part? Why? Look at every other game with some kind of ranking system (or any online RPG with levels) people almost always instantly get to the top level within the first week, which means they get to beat down on everyone else, and also keep a firm hold on all stat ranking systems. By setting the scores to what they are, they: 1)Weed out the truely dedicated from the past-time players 2)Destroy leetism. 3)Make you actully have to EARN your ranks (like seriously, when you get to corpral, I'm positive you'll have an amazing feeling of actully earning that spot) 4)Make it so people don't max out this feature of the game in a week and leave no other reason to play the game.
July 5, 200520 yr I agree Caste but if the math is right 12 years is a bit long. Maybe 2 years...maybe that would be about the life of a game anyway.
July 5, 200520 yr It means that people that can game all day every day get to own per say. It might be good it might not. Some people will never reach it while others can. It is not about skill as much as it is about time. Plus. Now tactics are evolving to help people get there sooner on ranked servers. Got two clans? Got ventrilo? Got a 20 player ranked server? Fill it up with just your guys. Cap and recap at will. Heal and reheal at will. Use voice to make it efficient and VOILA. Everybody gets in on the action.
July 5, 200520 yr Might you be able to post pictures and names for all of the ranks? http://www.forumplanet.com/planetbattlefield/topic.asp?fid=7419&tid=1685558somehwere in there
July 5, 200520 yr It means that people that can game all day every day get to own per say. It might be good it might not. Some people will never reach it while others can. It is not about skill as much as it is about time. Plus. Now tactics are evolving to help people get there sooner on ranked servers. Got two clans? Got ventrilo? Got a 20 player ranked server? Fill it up with just your guys. Cap and recap at will. Heal and reheal at will. Use voice to make it efficient and VOILA. Everybody gets in on the action. this to an extent is farming, ive posted a thread in here called exploiters that talks about it, but this is a video that will give you a very good idea of what many clans are doing these dayshttp://www.gigashare.com/files/embed/748915217.html
July 5, 200520 yr I agree that it is too much, but I don't think this guy is factoring in to his calculations the fact that anybody who comms long enough in a game earns double points. But even then, that's 6 years and that's waaaay too much. Things that take too long turn me off. This is why I don't play EQ much anymore. I think after I get Corporal and get another 2 weapon unlocks I'm not spending time on the ranked servers anymore. 2 years for the average gamer, 1 for the hardcore should of been max in my book.
July 5, 200520 yr http://vd9.net/bf2ranks/images/rank_11_icon.jpg Sergeant Major of the Corps I think that if you get like all your points from say flying heli's you get to be a warrant officer rank and if you fly aircraft or command tanks all the time you get officer ranks too. just a dumb thought but sounded good at the time. Mr
July 5, 200520 yr I think after I get Corporal and get another 2 weapon unlocks I'm not spending time on the ranked servers anymore. Keep in mind that many of the unranked servers have the lockables open, so everyone has access to every weapon anyway. As the past two weeks have gone by, more and more unranked servers seem to be going that way.
July 5, 200520 yr Keep in mind that many of the unranked servers have the lockables open, so everyone has access to every weapon anyway. As the past two weeks have gone by, more and more unranked servers seem to be going that way. Shooter I could be wrong but I thought you could only get the locked weapons IF you had unlocked them. You can use them in servers who allow unlocked weapons but the only way you could get them is to pick them up from someone you killed that has one OR have them unlocked by playing on a ranked server. Is this not the case? If not we should look into unlocking them on our server. I hate playing on ranked servers but I want the weapons like the Sniper rifle and the medic gun I unlocked. I would also like to have the G3 and the jack hammer...but thats just me. :peace:
July 5, 200520 yr Keep in mind that many of the unranked servers have the lockables open, so everyone has access to every weapon anyway. As the past two weeks have gone by, more and more unranked servers seem to be going that way. Only unranked server I've played on is our own, so I was not aware of that. And the only reason I play on ranked servers so much is because our own server is EMPTY most of the times I checked... what gives? That brings me to ask... why was it so easy to fill our CSS server and not BF2 server? BF2 is a far superior game! Why aren't we supporting our own server and playing on it? For goodness sake, we dont' need to play on ranked servers to get our pretty guns, why not unlock them and play here where we have control of them??
July 5, 200520 yr everytime i log onto BF2 I check our server to see if there are people in there before i go play somewhere else and its always empty i guess we just gotta start idling in there so people join Mr
July 5, 200520 yr Roach we need to do some research to see if this is possible to unlock the weapons for our server. If so I bet we would keep it full.
July 5, 200520 yr Im confused, do you have to be on a ranked server to unlock weapons?? Cause honestly I could care less about rank, i just want to unlock all the alternate weapons.
July 5, 200520 yr In that first week where ALL the ranked servers were filled to the brim, I spent many an hour on the poor, little unranked servers. Many of them had the unlockables available. Now one really weird find was an official/ranked server that had the unlockables open as well. Lost the IP in my scribbling over the past two weeks, but it was definitely ranked (added a medal on the server and stats were added). Ashamedly, I haven't even been on our OWN unranked server for over a week, but I think we had the unlockables open at one time. Lemme check with our admin and find out how. Bottom line right now is that the "stats-ferver" has everyone clammering to the ranked servers. I've fallen prey to this as well, as we all seem to gather on the points servers to fill out that ribbon board... :peace: It'll wear off eventually. The best game-play I've ever had in BF2 was on unranked servers where people play the game, not do stupid things to garner ribbons.
July 5, 200520 yr Author But in rankes servers, you have to EARN those ranks and weapons. Un-ranked servers are just for fun. They give you whatever you want. blahblahblah
July 5, 200520 yr I'm not sure you can, without altering the python scripts, which EA has said would be punishable by removal of the servers IP from the master list.. Not sure, but we may be able to set it to on, and if you have unlocked them on ranked servers, you can use them on ours? May be a case of where you have to go to ranked servers to get the unlocks and rank increases, but the rewards of that can be used on un-ranked servers that are set to allow it? TFD
July 5, 200520 yr Author EA doesn't give a crap if you hack the weapons in unranked servers and unlock them. They only cared about it in the demo because the demo wasn't supposed to be touched/hacked. The full game, though, is allowed to be hacked.
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