Ranks and Prestige

Introduction
You may have noticed but our chat tends to be colourful at times, and no not in a bad way. Why? Well its Ranks of course! Ranks aren't a concept thats brand new to minecraft multiplayer, its been something thats been widely used since the addition of group based permissions was added to SMP. Unfortuantly, or rather amazingly, ranks nearly always differ from server to server. So more often than not it can be extremely beneficial to have a quick tutorial to a servers ranks. And thats exactly what we're here today to do, teach you our ranks!

The Chat
Look at the screenshot at the beginning of this article. You will see 5 parts to our chat system. In order it goes "Channel" (In the screenshot that is [Global]), then "Prestige" ( In the screenshot that is [B-Lvl], [D-Lvl], etc.), then "Rank" (In the screenshot, [Moderator], [Brigadier], etc), then "Player Name" (self-explanatory), and then "Message" (What the person had typed / said). The parts we are focusing on in this tutorial are the "Prestige" and "Rank" sections

Ranks
Our normal ranks go, in order, Recruit -> Corporal -> Sergeant -> Lieutenant -> Major -> Colonel -> Brigadier... Making for 7 individual ranks names

Our staff ranks go, again in order, Moderator -> Admin -> Developer* -> Overseer -> Owner. These are the ranks that enforce rules and keep server peace. Make sure you are kind to them for all their hard work! All staff ranks appear Dark Grey in game. But this tutorial isn't on the staff ranks so we'll get into that at another time.

Prestige
In order our prestiges go: 'E' Level -> 'D' Level -> 'C' Level -> 'B' Level -> 'A' Level -> 'S' Level... Making for 6 total prestiges. Now for the complex part, explaining exactly what the prestige is. If you have played Call of Duty before this system should make sense to you, Once you have reached the max rank (for our server that is the rank called 'Brigadier') you can reset yourself back down to the lowest rank (for us that is the rank called 'Recruit') and by resetting yourself back down to the lowest rank you get an increased prestige. Once you prestige ranks become harder and more expensive to aquire, and only continue getting more intense and expensive as you move to a higher prestige level. So in short, since there are 6 prestiges, and each prestige contains the same 7 ranks, that gives you the opportunity to be 1 of 42 DIFFERENT combinations of ranks! (7 x 6= 42 for those wondering where that number came from) Thats right: Life, the Universe, and Everything.

... More to come soon