wow they really need to fix that, you're basically gaining nothing with how much you have to get, but then again I shouldn't complain I am lvl 10 hehehehe

It reportedly takes over 2 million loyalty rank points to reach rank 14.

This led me to perform some calculations.

It takes over 2 million points to reach level 14 from 13.

Fighting in a battle earns 1 loyalty rank point.
Winning that battle earns you 3.
500 WP in that battle earns you 1.

Therefore, if every single match a newly minted LR13 player played from this point onwards was a win in which he scored 3000 WP (unlikely) it would take them 200,000 battles to reach the next rank.


200,000 battles. Two hundred thousand. If each of those was over very quickly, in 10 minutes (which is also highly unlikely as many matches take 20 or so), it would take 34,000 hours of playtime to reach the next rank.

That is completely preposterous. There is absolutely no way anybody could possibly meet those requirements through gameplay. Absolutely none.That's 1400 days (4 years) of sitting at the PS3 from downtime to downtime, never sleeping or eating except for 10 minute breaks through downtime.

Not only is it 1400 days of doing that, it's doing that with an absolutely extraordinary standard of performance.


THIS ISN'T EVEN THE HIGHEST RANK.

Now, Cross volunteered himself on Skype as a victim, so we're going to calculate roughly how long it'd take him to reach LR14 from LR13 (which he isn't at yet).
Cross suggests he might play 4 hours a day. So...

Managing 3 matches an hour with a 2:1 W/L ratio and a score of 1500 WP in every single match, it would take our good man Cross over 90 years to reach this point.

To reach LR14 (not the highest rank) he would need to become the oldest man who ever lived, whilst managing 4 hours of DUST a day, every day, at a good level of performance, for almost a century. This assumes that even as he ails and begins to die, he is still playing DUST to a solid level of performance for 4 hours a day.


On the bright side, if he has a priest reading Genesis 3:19 at his funeral, it will take on a very special meaning indeed.

"For dust you are, and to dust, you will return."

Wow I had no idea it was aurum spent. That's incredibly helpful. So a follow up question - I've been conserving my aur for awhile (week or two) and have about 5k. What is the best thing to spend it on? I don't want to buy gear or fittings that are expendable. Besides skins, what do people spend their aur on most commonly?

Actually, if you want to get something worth your while, with just 5k aurum, go buy some torchflare kaalakiota forge guns and sell them back. If you have what's her name that gives you the 15% bonus to market transactions then it's worth your while, you can get about 1.5 mil or so isk out of the deal.

As far as boosters go you'd only be able to get 1 day, and IMO it's not really worth it.

Those numbers are skewed now that you get free aurum for just logging in every day. Recalculate, nao

Or the Gal Assault Pack. It's $4.99 and you get 100 of each Adv and Proto Suit for Scout, Logi, and Assault. Plus you get Shot guns, AR's and PLCS as well as some mods. I think it would be a good investment since he runs the Gal med frames.

No it's not. I'm surprised I didn't see this brought up yet in the thread but you no longer get Loyalty points for using your aurum, it's when you buy it. The free aurum you get daily, and threw events like right now doesn't raise your rank at all. I just spent 5k aurum on a 7 day booster on one my newer accounts I use to test things out on. That character is still rank zero with 200 points to go to rank 1.

As for earnings it's not 100% accurate, or it's just bugged. If you join a match you don't automatically gain 1 loyalty point, nor do you automatically gain 2 for winning. I tested it out and sat back in the spawn point doing nothing, ending the match with zero WP. My team won and I got no points at all. Nothing for joining a match and nothing for the team winning.

I also tested out matches were I earned 300-400wp and got nothing for the effort. So joining a match and/or winning doesn't really seem to matter. It's just every 500 wp you earn life time far a I can tell. You do earn points for fractions of 500, if it adds up to 500 over several different matches.

I've also ran into a bug in where my account lost over 600 earned loyalty points for no reason. One day I was less than 100 from the next level and then suddenly every character on that account was 600 some points back. Given it's a mere 5 points a day for logging in and a small 1-5 points on average for playing a match. That was countless hours and/or days worth of work lost because of some glitch.

A glitch I reported and made a thread about that people replied to but nothing official was done or commented on about it.

Played a pub with my roomate and had a 4500 pt game holding down the point with only our links and nanohives, and revives.

I started using the adv. Burst AR and I LOVE it. By far my favorite variant, has got me back in the slaygroove. And I started running the adv. Medium basic GA suit with 2 slots. Uplink and nanohive have been my most successful games. I hold points supporting my links, mid range sniping with the burst AR. Best games I've had in awhile.

Sorry to barge into the convo but I have been using the TAC recently for a similar purpose. Is it worth trying the burst AR? I'm not sure I have ever even used it....

Time to give it a go I think.