Just me who thinks the pacing of the ranking system is a bit jacked up?  I made Warrant Officer 2 days ago and since then its taken ages to get half way til the next rank up (warrant officer grade 1) I've played a lot of matchmaking, Firefight, and completed the game. I love ranking up in games but it seems to take a hell of a lot longer to rank up any more, this may just stop me from playing the multiplayer, the time i'll put into this isnt worth the rewards. Theres alot of games coming out soon (DR2, Civ5) and I can just see myself ditching Reach already :(  
 
If this is true then its guna take a long time to rank up to Captain.
 

  
Anyone else feel this way?

That tends to be how games with rankings work. The higher you go up, the more it takes to rank up. It would be kind of dumb if it was the same time to reach every rank since then everyone would reach max rank pretty quickly and then have nothing left to play for.

" That tends to be how games with rankings work. The higher you go up, the more it takes to rank up. It would be kind of dumb if it was the same time to reach every rank since then everyone would reach max rank pretty quickly and then have nothing left to play for. "

I'm getting this sense, yeah. The first few ranks were very fast, which seemed appropriate given how many ranks there are. Then I hit warrant officer and I'm getting nowhere.

" That tends to be how games with rankings work. The higher you go up, the more it takes to rank up. It would be kind of dumb if it was the same time to reach every rank since then everyone would reach max rank pretty quickly and then have nothing left to play for. "

I dont think there are many ranks to begin with, I'm almost Captain and thats the rank after warrant officer 3

 @Rawrz said:

" That tends to be how games with rankings work. The higher you go up, the more it takes to rank up. It would be kind of dumb if it was the same time to reach every rank since then everyone would reach max rank pretty quickly and then have nothing left to play for. "

Glad its not just me who feels this way, I do have some friends on Halo who are close to Captain, but they are the hardcorest of hardcore Halo players who play all day each day. I think maybe adding a few more ranks could of helped.

Gotta keep people playing the game for a long time. So the ranking system does just that. 

You just have to put in work. 

I got to warrant officer 2 pretty quickly, took yesterday and today to get to warrant officer 3, which was 33000 credits. Then I went to the bungie site to see how much til Captain.... 60,000 credits :\ but if it helps I seem to be earning more each time now too

Play for fun instead?

do work son

Fucccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccck. I'm only on Warrent Officer Grade 2 and only halfway through that. Getting to Major is gonna kill me.

It's only been five days since release. Give it a month or two and you'll be climbing high up there. 

Warrant Officer is when shit gets real. 
 
A ton of games work like that.

" Warrant Officer is when shit gets real.  A ton of games work like that. "

It does feel like Warrant Officer ranks are taking forever in comparison to all the other ranks.  At the same time, with the price of upgrades after you hit Warrant Officer, the credits that you would have by the time you hit your next rank seem pretty accordant to the time it takes to rank up.

Yeah, all games take a major turn once you hit the officer ranks, but I don't like that there are four Warrant Officer ranks, yet only one or two Sergeant ranks. I think there should have been a few more easily achievable ranks before they cranked up the heat.  
 
Also it sucks that something new isn't unlocked for every rank, it makes it feel like a painful grind through the "unimportant" ranks to get to the good stuff. 

doing the commendations helps, remember you can always grind for headshots or whatever

" Whoda thunk that games were about getting ranks. Here was me thinking that they were about having fun! (cant unbold for some reason...)  (EDIT: Hooded Vendetta is that you?) "