BF2 Weapon unlock

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Any one know if the chosen unlocked weapon can be changed, for another
?

\Solidus

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blah@blah.com waffled:

>
> nope. Only way is to get a new rank.
>
> Thats the official answer
>

The ranking system is heavily biased in favour of the people with the
most time on their hands ie: people with no kids and/or no job. People
like myself with commitments will find it extremely hard to get anywhere
near the higher echelons. The ranking system should be based on your
combined teamwork/kill/death ratio's no matter how much time you play
the game with maybe a 20-30 hour minimum playtime before your rank
becomes public....and don't get me started on joining Official Ranked
Servers |

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blah@blah.com wrote in news:7ubFe.29936$Pf3.26670
@fe2.news.blueyonder.co.uk:

> nope. Only way is to get a new rank.

But note that it can be the *same* rank, as long as you can live with using
only one unlock per round and are willing to log out and change profiles
between unlocks. Once you reach Lance Corporal, start a new profile. You
just need a different email address. Use a disposable one, like those at
mailinator. That has the additional benefit that you don't have to suffer
GameSpy's opt-in spam.

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fudg3tunn3l left a note on my windscreen which said:

> The ranking system is heavily biased in favour of the people with the
> most time on their hands ie: people with no kids and/or no job. People
> like myself with commitments will find it extremely hard to get anywhere
> near the higher echelons. The ranking system should be based on your
> combined teamwork/kill/death ratio's no matter how much time you play
> the game with maybe a 20-30 hour minimum playtime before your rank
> becomes public....and don't get me started on joining Official Ranked
> Servers |

Actually, it isn't biased toward those people at all. If it takes
someone 100 hours of playtime to achieve a rank then it takes you 100
hours of playtime for the same. The difference is that people who are
able to play for 5 hours a day will get there a lot sooner than those of
us who can't.

How is this any different to saying Half Life 2 is biased because
someone completed it within a day of buying the game where it took me or
you about a week to do so?

Honestly - your medals and your rank don't change the game much at all.
The unlocked weapons aren't really very significant to change the whole
playing field and it's still easy enough to get to play commander if you
want to. BF1942 didn't have any sort of ranking system yet the people
who can play the most naturally get much better at playing than those of
us who can't.

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