Is anyone gonna get past Brigadier General?

2006-02-15 01:55:45

#1

MrBrain: Member; +24|7126|Finland

Requirements:

* Rank: Colonel
* Score: 180,000
* Awards: Expert Armor Badge, Expert Transport Badge, Expert Helicopter Badge, Expert Aviator Badge, Expert Air Defense Badge, Expert Ground Defense Badge

Lets look a bit at the awards:

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Expert Armor Badge
  - 24 kills IAR
  - Total usage time         400h
Expert Transport
  - 11 road kills
  - 2000 driver points
 - Total usage time          150h
Expert helicopter
  - 24 kills IAR
 - Total usage time          400h
Expert Aviator
  - 24 kills IAR
 - Total usage time          300h
Expert Air Defence
  - 24 kills IAR
 - Total usage time          100h
Expert Ground Defence
  - 24 kills IAR
 - Total usage time          60h
----------------------------------
                TOTAL TIME:  1410h

That is 1410h of total usage time, then add the time when you are dead and running to these and the time when somebody else gets them before you (yes, whoring will start soon) and you end up with atleast 2000h of gameplay. To be realistic it's more like 3000h of game play.
Thats 125days of PURE game play, if you play like me (I work and have a GF and is considiered to play a lot) about 2h each day that is 1500days, or 4year and 40days before I have the time collected for all expert badges. Also meaning that I have to play 2h every day including every special holiday or vacation.

WTF?

also the new ranks are a bit strange in another way, sergant major is 30k above first sergant, but then it's only 10k to next rank, 2nd lt. Seems like DICE didn't think it through all that much, including the balance in the new patch. They just rushed something together in order to get it out...

2006-02-15 02:00:09

#2

ComradeWho: Member; +50|7130|Southern California

Well naturally the top ranks are going to be for the handful of gamers that can somehow allow themselves to spend obscene amounts of time devoted to the game.

and that's fine, if this is their primary life activity than they should be the ones getting three stars or four stars or one star. good for them.

i don't play nearly as much as those people do so if i were able to attain a general rank i would probably have to come to the conclusion that the rank system is poorly designed. i just set my scopes on a rank that is challenging but attainable and try to get there in a few months with the limited time i do have.

2006-02-15 02:07:47

#3

MrBrain: Member; +24|7126|Finland

Yeah surely. For now there's not that many that have 180k points, but the scores are continuosly incrementing. Just look at the amount of Sergant Majors... You're kinda right though, but I think after like 6months to a year many will be stuck at the requirements.

love your sig

[edit]hehehe, didn't notice that you actually was close to Sergant Major before I read my post. You're one in the crowd [/edit]

Last edited by MrBrain (2006-02-15 02:09:11)

2006-02-15 02:12:52

#4

kontrolcrimson: Get your body beat.; +183|7263|Australia

i want it one day, dont know how though, i suck in a jet

2006-02-15 02:14:15

#5

Lt.Maverick|Lw|: youve now just been Pwned by the Mavster; +-1|7159

kontrolcrimson wrote:
i want it one day, dont know how though, i suck in a jet

Me too

2006-02-15 02:22:13

#6

Ali: Official Hell Bound Turbo Action Club Member; +17|7145|Gütersloh, Germany

If you don't have the required badges before you have the required points for one of the Generals ranks will you be promoted if you get the badges? Or does it work like First Sergeant and Sergeant Major?

2006-02-15 02:40:00

#7

Spiderman696: Member; +12|7082

Ali wrote:
If you don't have the required badges before you have the required points for one of the Generals ranks will you be promoted if you get the badges? Or does it work like First Sergeant and Sergeant Major?

How does is work there? I thought you get promoted after getin all the badges when you got the points alredy before.

But too mention the original subject:

Like MrBrian said. You need a minimum of 1410 h in vehicles. Just look at the top 10 players. They get nearly 4 points a minute...... +/- 340'000 points!!!! Just in vehicles..... and some more points in infantery combat and some teampoints.....

I think we will see the first general stars after the first players will reach half a milion points.

2006-02-15 02:40:37

#8

CJFF Balnk: Member; +2|7161|Baltimore Maryland

Hate the new ranks.

2006-02-15 02:55:54

#9

Ali: Official Hell Bound Turbo Action Club Member; +17|7145|Gütersloh, Germany

Spiderman696 wrote:
Ali wrote:
If you don't have the required badges before you have the required points for one of the Generals ranks will you be promoted if you get the badges? Or does it work like First Sergeant and Sergeant Major?
How does is work there? I thought you get promoted after getin all the badges when you got the points alredy before.

You have to eran the badges before you have the points.

20,000 without all the badges: Master Sergeant
20,000 with all the badges: First Sergeant
If you earn the missing badges after your promotion to Master Sergeant you will NOT be promoted to First Sergeant. Same with Master Gunnery Sergeant/Sergeant Major.

2006-02-15 03:12:26

#10

bingobones: Member; +6|7161|London, UK

was this post meant to be titled: IS anyone gonna get past Colonel? because no-one will ever get to brigadier general...let alone get past it!!!

2006-02-15 03:51:44

#11

MrBrain: Member; +24|7126|Finland

bingobones wrote:
was this post meant to be titled: IS anyone gonna get past Colonel? because no-one will ever get to brigadier general...let alone get past it!!!

You're right, a small typo there ;P It was supposed to be "Is anyone gonna be Brigadier General?" I was thinking of getting past Colonel when I wrote it and didn't realise it until now

2006-02-15 04:43:29

#12

glopje_nl: Member; +21|7106|HOLLAND

|nerv|raxor is very close to all expert badges but his stats are reset
http://bf2s.com/player/|nerv|raxor/ on this site there still here on other stats site http://bf2tracker.com/bf2_userprofile.p … d=43725957 gone damn that sucks he was a good friend

2006-02-15 04:55:08

#13

E7IX3R: is drunk and crazy; +216|7124|UK

glopje_nl wrote:
|nerv|raxor is very close to all expert badges but his stats are reset
http://bf2s.com/player/|nerv|raxor/ on this site there still here on other stats site http://bf2tracker.com/bf2_userprofile.p … d=43725957 gone damn that sucks he was a good friend

you make it sound like he's dead

2006-02-15 05:12:50

#14

bingobones: Member; +6|7161|London, UK

why did he get his stats reset? statpadding?

i like details

2006-02-15 05:35:39

#15

MrBrain: Member; +24|7126|Finland

and why is he dead?

2006-02-15 05:44:11

#16

section9: Member; +9|7283|USA

since I don't fly much I guess I won't be getting that rank.

2006-02-15 07:03:23

#17

MuseSeeker: 2142 Soldier: Behenaut; +110|7211|EUR

Well does it matter really? Its only a rank.

2006-02-15 07:09:05

#18

tvmissleman: The Cereal Killer; +201|7094| United States of America

Lt.Maverick|Lw| wrote:
kontrolcrimson wrote:
i want it one day, dont know how though, i suck in a jet
Me too

yeah now AA whores are coming and we will all suck in jets

2006-02-15 07:11:01

#19

Torin: Member; +52|7128

The new ranks past Colonel are damn hardcore, I will admit. But, that's how they should be... when everyone and their brother is a general, something is wrong with the rank system. It'll be a while till we see people getting all vehicle gold badges, I think it's a good requirement for the top tier badges. I just think they should make the point requirements for those badges a little higher, because anyone who takes the time to get all gold vehicle badges is going to have way more than 260k.

2006-02-15 08:28:15

#20

kontrolcrimson: Get your body beat.; +183|7263|Australia

but it should be say all kit + knife, pistol, command, explosives and one/two expert vehicle badge. Not the vehicles, then all the others for the next rank.
I think they set it the wrong way round.

Who is closest to allt he expert vehicle badges?

Last edited by kontrolcrimson (2006-02-15 08:28:59)

2006-02-15 08:33:13

#21

glopje_nl: Member; +21|7106|HOLLAND

I think sgt maxpower http://bf2s.com/player/44925574/

2006-02-15 18:02:45

#22

kontrolcrimson: Get your body beat.; +183|7263|Australia

He still has a way to go...

2006-02-15 18:13:18

#23

Gulf_War_Syndrome: OMG ERYX HAX!; +62|7114|Adelaide, Australia

While it does seem unrealistic, I kind of like it. It means that all the 100% Karkand players with 69 billion points still won't progress past Colonel.

The only way it could have been better is if they substituted the expert badges for say, 50 hours on every map.

I'm just concentrating on my next rank, I'm just glad it's not at 200K anymore!

2006-02-15 18:16:35

#24

=[4th]=SlayThem: Destroy Noob Cannons; +96|7269

There is somebody on these forums that I saw with all the Expert badges... Can't remember who he is... he was more decorated than Raxor!

2006-02-15 18:22:20

#25

kessel!: Peruvian Cocaine; +261|7201|Toronto Canada

how bout thingonaspringds? that guy is pretty 1337

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