Rank & Level

Rank & Level are terms that refer to the individual levelling of a player. While certain ranks and levels unlock certain in-game tools, they are largely cosmetic and do not affect overall gameplay.

Rank

Rank is a system primarily used to identify a player's participation in the game. While it can tell others how long other players have played the game, it is more noticeable when a player participates in the game's Logistics System. It is based on the Commendation system, which uses Commends, or player-rewarded "marks of approval" (i.e. doing things that players deem helpful, like running supplies or helping them out with a task). The more commends a player receives, the higher their rank is. Rank will never reset and is kept across factions and server shards.

Players can see Rank through a multiple of ways:

• In the player menu - pressing F1.
  • Individual's Rank is shown at the top of the menu.
  • All players within the same Region - shown on the left of the menu.
  • All players within a Regiment (if the player themselves are a part of one) - shown on the right of the menu.
• After a player's nametag that's visible above their soldier - only visible to other players.

Rank differs from your Level, with the latter only based on doing certain useful actions (farming resources, killing enemies, etc...).

Commendations

The Commendation system is a system that allows players to reward other players for their good behaviour. Commends (to be given to others) can be earned through the positive actions listed below:

Action	Reward	To get 1 Commend
Dealing damage to enemy soldiers	0.0019 Commend per damage dealt	~500 damage (~5 kills)
Reviving friendlies with a Trauma Kit	0.1 Commend per revive	10 friendly revives
Collecting resources from resource nodes at Resource Fields with a Hammer, Sledge Hammer, or Harvester.	Commends per hit Hammer Sledge Harvester Salvage 0.0033 0.0066 0.005 Coal 0.0066 0.0133 0.01 Components 0.0066 0.01 Sulfur 0.0133 0.01	Hits required Hammer Sledge Harvester Salvage 300 150 200 Coal 150 75 100 Components 150 100 Sulfur 75 100
Retrieving completed orders at a Factory or Mass Production Factory.	0.0025 Commend per Basic Materials in production cost	400 Basic Materials in production cost
Building structures, vehicles, or shippable structures that cost Basic Materials, Construction Materials or Refined Materials with a Hammer.	0.0033 Commend per materials used	300 materials used
Repairing structures or vehicles with a Hammer.	0.0033 Commend per Basic Materials used	300 Basic Materials used

Commends Available (to give) can be viewed in the player screen by pressing F1. The maximum possible Commends Available is 100.

Commend other players, via the player list, by right-clicking a user's name and selecting "Commend" in the context menu, or through Alt+Click context menu on a player model while both are on foot/not in a vehicle seat. The amount of Commends players can give is limited to 100 per day, and of those only 3 per individual. The amount of Commends a player can receive is unlimited.

The amount of commends required per rank grows exponentially with every rank.

Rank-locked functionalities

Very few things in the game require a rank, they include:

• Squads creation (Cpl Rank required)
• Map Posts creation (Cpl Rank required)
• Regiments creation: (Ssgt Rank required)

Ranks list

#	Rank	Description	Required Commends
			Total	To advance from
0	None	N/A	-	1
1	Pte	Private	1	3
2	LCpl	Lance Corporal	4	4
3	Cpl	Corporal	8	12
4	Sgt	Sergeant	20	30
5	SSgt	Staff Sergeant	50	50
6	WO2	Warrant Officer 2	100	50
7	WO1	Warrant Officer 1	150	50
8	OCdt	Officer Cadet	200	300
9	2Lt	Second Lieutenant	500	300
10	Lt	Lieutenant	800	400
11	Capt	Captain	1200	600
12	Maj	Major	1800	900
13	Lt Col	Lieutenant Colonel	2700	1200
14	Col	Colonel	3900	2000
15	Brig	Brigadier General	5900	3000
16	Maj Gen	Major General	8900	4500
17	Lt Gen	Lieutenant General	13400	6500
18	Gen	General	19900	10000
19	FM	Field Marshal	29900	-

Level

Level is distinct from rank, as it slowly increases by doing useful actions (actions which earn you commends such as farming resources, killing enemies, etc...). Level is shown in the player menu by pressing F1. Level cannot be viewed by other players.

It only has one use, which is allowing any player under level 5 that has been faction-locked (i.e. playing a faction for more than six minutes into a war) to get one free faction unlock. This allows these players to switch factions (i.e. Switching from the Colonial faction to the Warden faction). In order to do this, they must access the faction select screen located in the top-right corner of the deploy screen (after pressing PLAY in the main menu).

Like Rank, your Level never resets and is kept across factions and server shards.

Trivia

• The Rank System uses the exact same structure as the current British Army ranks.
• During the game's development, there used to be a way to see the progression of your Rank, allowing players to figure out how many more commends they needed in order to reach the next level. This was removed later in development, and players can no longer see how many more commends they need to level up.
• Earlier in the game's development, it was possible to "dump" all your commends onto a single person, which meant that a single player could receive thousands of commends in a single day. Due to this mechanic (which was known as "Boosting" in the community), this was removed from the game and commends were limited to three commends per day.
  • Despite this limiter, it is possible for a player to be "boosted" through other means, though it is highly discouraged as Rank does not do anything and discouraged on a social level as it can seem like a player's Rank was earned through unhelpful ways (i.e. not contributing to the faction as a whole).