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malfinman's avatar
malfinman
6 years ago

Suggestion to devs – new rank plates needed

I know there are many more important issues but this has not been discussed much and it‘s easy to implement and actually pretty rewarding future which keeps people playing.

A few months ago you have added grandmaster ranks and since then I have been confused why no new rank plants haven’t been implemented with them.

Till level 900 you have plenty of new rank plates and it’s actually fast to level up and once you hit level 900 it gets much slower, but no new rank plates sadly. Levels 900-1800+ are the same. Why?

There are also new characters on the way so levels might be soon 2000+. So in a few months, you will have half of the players with the same plate color because both players with rank 900 and 2000+ will have the same plate?

Rank plates have always been a big part of this game and let’s be honest here, people love them, it’s rewarding and it’s a motivator to keep playing and progressing. The current state is like having in Garden Warfare 1 the same plates for levels 150-313, that would be just strange right and definitely lack of motivation to reach max rank for many.

My suggestion is to do rank plates to change at least every 300 levels:

900-1199 - (current platinum plate)

1200-1499 - new plate color

1500-1799 - new plate color

1800+ - new plate color

This can be easily done with the next patch/update, the community will surely appreciate it and I am sure it’s one of the easier things to implement. You can’t go wrong with this one.

Thank you.

10 Replies

  • Multiwarfare's avatar
    Multiwarfare
    Rising Ace
    6 years ago

    900-1199 should have the rank plate we already got. Other than that I agree.

  • CharlesHlcBende's avatar
    CharlesHlcBende
    6 years ago

    High rank plate color is very few (only one!), I think so.

    And for me, character icon in scoreboard is needed.

    If we can know number of snipers, sneaking characters, Engineers, Chompers,  and Space Cadets in both team, our character picking and movement will change.

    Battle situation will change more drastically in one game.

  • TheSprinter85's avatar
    TheSprinter85
    Hero
    6 years ago
    @malfinman I’ve wanted this for a while. Having the same old rank plate for half of your levelling up career gets very boring very quickly.
  • shurikeninja's avatar
    shurikeninja
    6 years ago
    @malfinman Yeah I've been meaning to ask for this for a while but I keep forgetting lol. Thanks for speaking out because this is definitely a problem that can be fixed easily. For the new Rank Plates they could just do Elite, Super Elite and then Master colours. (from GW2). Also, remember in Founders when we had the GW2 system of Ranks? I remember there were more colours there, every 100 levels the colour would change. I remember we had a Green Plate for 500+ or something.
  • CapitanRoyon's avatar
    CapitanRoyon
    6 years ago

    Adding new rank plates is a nice idea. In Garden Warfare 2, we received a new rank plate every 100 levels. I always wanted to get higher and nicer rank plates. It was also my motivation to continue playing. I would also like to see something like this in Battle For Neighborville.

  • malfinman's avatar
    malfinman
    6 years ago
    @shurikeninja Oh yeah, I remember it was different in founders. It wasnt an issue till GM ranks, its like they totally forgot to add new plates with it. As you said its easy to do, its not like doing new map or character. So lets hope they fix this, because it will become an issue later, most ppl are still <900 so they dont care but they will. It will be especially strange once we have 2000+ levels.
  • shurikeninja's avatar
    shurikeninja
    6 years ago
    @CharlesHlcBendel Yeah I've also wanted this but people love targeting each other in this game, I'm scared that the targeting problem will get worse if people know exactly what character everyone is even when they switch.

    So to deal with the problem, the number of characters in the enemy team should be just above the scoreboard, so you know how many e.g. Chompers there are, but you don't know which player is using which character.
  • Iron_Guard8's avatar
    Iron_Guard8
    Legend
    6 years ago

    Agreed. With coins being useless once the reward-o-tron is empty, leveling up through the Grandmaster ranks has felt rather pointless and using the same plate the entire time hasn't helped that situation at all. 

    I'd love to see more rank plates for higher ranks, something for coins to do, and some other incentive for leveling up past Master (rainbow stars, or prize bulbs, or something else), instead of just 1k coins per level.

  • Gormey's avatar
    Gormey
    6 years ago
    @Iron_Guard8 some kind of badge on char would be cool...grand master medal that gets an additional tick for each level that stays on regardless of wardrobe change.

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