Paco_the_Insane
Phorum Phantom
+244|7101|Ohio
I cant remember how many points it took to get the original awards.
I seem to think it took a multiple of 10 for each.
10 - PFC
100 - Lance Corporal
1000 - Corporal
10000 - Sergeant
100000 - Staff Sergeant
1000000 - Gunnery Sergeant
10000000 - First Sergeant
100000000 - Sergeant Major
1000000000 - 2nd Lieutenant

Something rediculous like that. If any one knows, can you post it.
polarbearz
Raiders of the Lost Bear
+-1,474|7245|Singapore

Err no. Not THAT ridiculous.
AmbassadorofPain
Member
+34|7114|Devil's Perch
Don't think so.

I'm not sure about the lower ranks anymore either, but I think it was something like

12000 for Corporal
20000 for Sergeant
50000 for Staff Sergeant

or so.
Even Staff Sergeant and Gunnery Sergeant were granted to some before EA reorganised the system, IWI, m3sia, Nasty_Butler I think... just to name a few, so I'm quite sure they didn't require such utopian scores.
Proud member of a dead community.
ozzie_johnson
Member
+98|7114|Penrith, N.S.W, Australia
yep, i was corpal and when patch came out i got promoted 3 times, didnt have a clue what was happening, i was like omg hax.
[n00b]Tyler
Banned
+505|7051|Iceland
u just guessing.

ohh
Expert for all kits was 1000 hrs

Last edited by [n00b]Tyler (2006-09-30 06:01:21)

Twist
Too old to be doing this sh*t
+103|6980|Little blue planet, milky way
500 for the first rank,
1100 for the next (which had an unlock BTW)
then I think it was like
5000, without unlock,
11000, WITH unlock
something, no unlock,
50000 WITH unlock

the highest rank was 180.000 points, AFAIK, and that was sergant major

And after that 3rd unlock the game got patched, and I got all the weapons for free, and I never experienced a rank above first sargant the "legitimate" way. untill I got my captains bars (yeah, I had a huge break after the patch with free unlocks, because I thought that sucked bigtime).
XxOiLsP1lLxX
Putting the "I" back in TEAM
+48|6877|Kent UK
Its not quite as bad as it looks, because if you think about it there were only half as many guns to unlock, and you wouldn't want people having them all unlocked by 20k or whatever now would you


lol

~!~Richard~!~
Cybargs
Moderated
+2,285|7173
500 PFC
1000 Lance corporal
10,500 corporal
25,000 sergeant
50,000 staff sergeant

something like that.
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N.A.T.O
The People’s Champion
+59|6896|A drop house
This was all i could find of the original ranking system but it is accurate.

Private:0

PFC:500

LCPL:1000

CPL:10500

SGT:25000

SSGT:50000

GYSGT:75000

MSGT:150000

1STSGT:150000*
Pice_of_paper
oBy| Back In Business
+28|6919

[n00b]Tyler wrote:

ohh
Expert for all kits was 1000 hrs
hah lol! 1000 hours!
{BMF}*Frank_The_Tank
U.S. > Iran
+497|7034|Florida

ozzie_johnson wrote:

yep, i was corpal and when patch came out i got promoted 3 times, didnt have a clue what was happening, i was like omg hax.
ha ha, I had the same happen to me.  I think I was either a Lance Corporal or Corporal, and joined a game, I went to cap a flag and was standing on the mounted gun on the FAV.  2 enemy came up, I killed one, got promoted, killed the second, got promoted, then when the flag went neutral, I got promoted again lol.  I was wondering wtf was going on....but I had no complaints lol.
Lucien
Fantasma Parastasie
+1,451|7110
I remember thinking 'omg a 2nd luitenant' once during 1.12
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Twist
Too old to be doing this sh*t
+103|6980|Little blue planet, milky way

XxOiLsP1lLxX wrote:

Its not quite as bad as it looks, because if you think about it there were only half as many guns to unlock, and you wouldn't want people having them all unlocked by 20k or whatever now would you


lol

~!~Richard~!~
No I'd really prefer that people only had like 1-2 unlocks at noob status, and 4-5 unlocks at "leet" status (above 100K points). Once someone has ALL the unlocks, then what's the freggin' point ? EVERYONE can choose whatever weapon would suit their needs best. The "old" way, people had to make a choice, and if that choice was a bad one on the map that just started, then "har har, sux2bu". I LIKED that. Having to stalk my prey to kill him and steal his G3 (if that's the prefered weapon on that particular map). It also meant that for clan fights, you wouldn't go let the guy WITHOUT the sniper unlock take the position as team sniper (assuming one would be needed). And the DAO-12 TOTALLY R0X0RED ! because NOONE had it, and noone picked it, but it is SO much better than all the other shotguns, high rate of fire, automatic fire, fast reload, 12 rounds in the chamber.... It was REALLY nice in close quater, and for backup you had the eryx/predator, which was really handy in case of tanks. Noone ever though of the AT kit as being the "best one", but when you had the DAO, and everyone else had stock, it WAS the best one.

But that's besides the point, the discussion was about the original ranks, And I only remember the ones up to first sergant, I've posted those, everything else from me would be purely guesswork.
Todd_Angelo
Leukocyte
+336|7083|Warlord

Pice_of_paper wrote:

[n00b]Tyler wrote:

ohh
Expert for all kits was 1000 hrs
hah lol! 1000 hours!
Yeah, what the hell were they thinking? Just another example of the lack of perspective they had about a number of things initially.
doc. josh
Member
+48|7001
all i remember is when they changed it i got 2 or so free promotions
luckeydogg
Member
+35|6986|C:/system32/pimp.exe
HeadShotAK47
Hand's shaken' / Heart's beatn' / Still Shootin'
+32|7183|Ft. Laudy, FL, USA
sergeant major was like "the ultimate rank" and was about 2 millions points i think (not a joke)
Kamikaze17
Over the line!
+70|7205|Mark it zero.
i played a ton to get my next unlock at 20000+ and then the next day i got tons of promotions. why did i spend so much time just trying to get an unlock...
VeNg3nCe^
¦Tactics Øver Principles¦
+314|7162|Antarctica

N.A.T.O wrote:

This was all i could find of the original ranking system but it is accurate.

Private:0

PFC:500

LCPL:1000

CPL:10500

SGT:25000

SSGT:50000

GYSGT:75000

MSGT:150000

1STSGT:150000*
Correct.  Old ranks were awsome, I remember getting promoted to sgt and ssgt and thinking I was so leet
nonexistentusmc
Member
+26|6902|Queens, NYC
Man that old promotion system seems like the way it is for me in the Reserves lol. I've been a LCpl. for 13 months now.

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