Re: Woes of climbing ranks. How do you do it?
This... is amazing. Yes please.
Originally posted by RocketChild
ranking up does seem tedious in this game. Since they put merit towards points from pins and badges. BF2 took a long time because all those token awards did not aid in your ranking, that only came from playing long hours.
In both systems though, I don't think you really get a good sense of someone's worth.
I recall in BF2, they started out with some super Sergeant Major or the Corps. That was supposed to the the elite of sorts and after that there were officer ranks...hmm, I don't recall how it was supposed to be setup though.
Honestly though, I recall wishing that BF2 had setup the rankings so that there were two paths to go down. Recall how they broke in the middle of your Sergeant? Well, at that point, I wanted them to go down a path of going all out enlisted or all out officer. Officer path would be for those that more instrested in Awards, while the Enlisted class would go all the way up through Warrant Officer, but would be based completely on playing kills, K/D, first place awards and such.
You had to choose and once down that path, that ingame name could never change. In effect, if you saw a Lt General, you knew that was someone that was a ribbon whore and they only played for tokens. When you saw a Master Sergeant or Chief Warrant Officer, you knew that person was a flat out run-and-gun god and would likely finish the round in the top 5.
That is kinda how it is in the modern military. Officers are political machines; while enlisted are people that fight for a living and earn their credit from field performance.
DiCE are you listening? Here is a new structure idea for BF3! Points or Stats, you have to choose one path after E-5!
In both systems though, I don't think you really get a good sense of someone's worth.
I recall in BF2, they started out with some super Sergeant Major or the Corps. That was supposed to the the elite of sorts and after that there were officer ranks...hmm, I don't recall how it was supposed to be setup though.
Honestly though, I recall wishing that BF2 had setup the rankings so that there were two paths to go down. Recall how they broke in the middle of your Sergeant? Well, at that point, I wanted them to go down a path of going all out enlisted or all out officer. Officer path would be for those that more instrested in Awards, while the Enlisted class would go all the way up through Warrant Officer, but would be based completely on playing kills, K/D, first place awards and such.
You had to choose and once down that path, that ingame name could never change. In effect, if you saw a Lt General, you knew that was someone that was a ribbon whore and they only played for tokens. When you saw a Master Sergeant or Chief Warrant Officer, you knew that person was a flat out run-and-gun god and would likely finish the round in the top 5.
That is kinda how it is in the modern military. Officers are political machines; while enlisted are people that fight for a living and earn their credit from field performance.
DiCE are you listening? Here is a new structure idea for BF3! Points or Stats, you have to choose one path after E-5!
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