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I'm a sucker for rank.

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Captiosus

Game developers, take note. If you want to get me to play a game and play it for a long time, include unlockable ranks.

Maybe it's because I grew up in a military family and I had military aspirations until said aspirations were dashed at Richmond MEPS thanks to a civvie doctor who was late for his tee time (a rant I'll discuss at a later date), but give me the ability to earn a military style rank and I'll jump on it like stink on shi.. err... poop - despite the fact that they're damned meaningless.

Sure, some people boost for their ranks, some even outright cheat or blur the cheating line to get their ranks, but not me. I want to earn my fictitious rank. I'm proud of my current Lieutenant Grade 2 in Halo 3. But, at the same time, I'm realistic and am not going to spend my life earning game ranks. I don't have the time or inclination to ever go above Captain in Halo 3, so I'll be content when I hit a highest skill of 20 and can work on all of the Captain grades. The way I see it, there's probably not going to be a lot of Grade 4 Captains out there, but I'll be one of them.

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ProvingUnique·
yah but isnt it disheartening when they do a rank reset?... hasnt happened in H3 yet,.. but they seemed somewhat popular in halo2
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nomodifier·
LOL We've had a Timmie comment on XP/Rank ratio. He said to friend I was with You could be captain but we're too stupid to know it.
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pp2·
I'm with ya man. I love rank too, but I suck so badly at H3 I don't think I'll ever come close to officer. And its probably wrong of me, but when I get in a room and everyone wants to play custom games (that don't help you rank up) I am disappointed.\r \r Since really only the skill matters, they should allow ranking up in all game types I think.
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Captiosus·
@ProvingUnique: I don't think we'll see a \"rank\" reset in H3 cuz there were no para-military style rank insignia in H2. A skill reset, now that I could see, and yeah, that is kind of disheartening.\r \r @PP2: I agree to a point. I can understand why they did XP thing the way they did, but I think that there should be fractional points for the bottom 3 or losing teams, and very small fractional points for custom games.