Upcoming Feature: S.H.I.E.L.D. Rank & Clearance Levels!

David [Hi-Fi] Moore

New Upcoming feature - S.H.I.E.L.D. Rank and Clearance Levels!

Your S.H.I.E.L.D. Rank represents your progression through the game. Story and Versus Events will have S.H.I.E.L.D. Clearance Levels to provide different rewards and appropriate challenge for players of different S.H.I.E.L.D. Ranks.

S.H.I.E.L.D. Rank and Clearance Levels will help new players graduate from the early game to an advanced roster. Veterans will see better rewards that speed up development for their advanced teams.

We're excited to get these features fully in place by late Fall. Stay tuned for more information as we get closer to release!

Quebbster

Interesting. I may hold off my transition to fivestar land a bit to see what this feature entails.

Sluggo

If this means players with advanced rosters start seeing more 4* rewards, there will be much cheering.

mckauhu

This actually seems like promising. I'm waiting for it excited!

LordXberk

Quebbster wrote:

Interesting. I may hold off my transition to fivestar land a bit to see what this feature entails.

My biggest question surrounding this is what (if any) rewards will I potentially lose by progressing between now and whenever this is rolled out? Second biggest question is about timing and will it come out in stages or all at once? Plus, when is 'late fall?'

gravel

The in-game pop-up says the feature will be fully in place by late fall. Will certain parts of it be coming sooner than that?

Also, thank you communicating this in game as well as on the forums, which has often been requested with other new features and events.

veny

Sounds like a feature, that will reflect our age and efforts (= ISO need). If yes, i am very excited.
Actually i am excited about every new feature in this game

udonomefoo

LordXberk wrote:

Quebbster wrote:

Interesting. I may hold off my transition to fivestar land a bit to see what this feature entails.

My biggest question surrounding this is what (if any) rewards will I potentially lose by progressing between now and whenever this is rolled out? Second biggest question is about timing and will it come out in stages or all at once? Plus, when is 'late fall?'

I'm taking a leap here, but I don't think you'll "miss" anything. I'm betting that the higher your Shield Level is, the more Clearance Levels you'll be able to access. Think additional progression rewards that are only available to players above a certain rank.

If my guess is correct, then you'll actually be hurting yourself by not progressing while waiting for it to be implemented.

Spudgutter

LordXberk wrote:

Quebbster wrote:

Interesting. I may hold off my transition to fivestar land a bit to see what this feature entails.

My biggest question surrounding this is what (if any) rewards will I potentially lose by progressing between now and whenever this is rolled out? Second biggest question is about timing and will it come out in stages or all at once? Plus, when is 'late fall?'

This comes up whenever a new feature pops up (see CP rewards added to daily rewards). While I understand where it comes from, don't look a gift horse in the mouth.

In other words, I don't blame them for adding features after I have crossed a certain point. I played when I played, and knew the rewards at the time and I made my decision. I don't want the implementation delayed by even a day because they are concerned with that aspect of it.

amusingfoo1

Sluggo wrote:

If this means players with advanced rosters start seeing more 4* rewards, there will be much cheering.

I'm just worried that the top rewards will be achievable by such a small percentage of the player base that there will only be 1-2 brackets per slice. If that's the case, then very, very few people will be able to get them. Hope I'm wrong about that.

Polares

As I said in the other thread...

OMG!!!

This looks really promising, let's hope it is when it goes life.

mikelnoe

Spudgutter wrote:

LordXberk wrote:

Quebbster wrote:

Interesting. I may hold off my transition to fivestar land a bit to see what this feature entails.

My biggest question surrounding this is what (if any) rewards will I potentially lose by progressing between now and whenever this is rolled out? Second biggest question is about timing and will it come out in stages or all at once? Plus, when is 'late fall?'

This comes up whenever a new feature pops up (see CP rewards added to daily rewards). While I understand where it comes from, don't look a gift horse in the mouth.

In other words, I don't blame them for adding features after I have crossed a certain point. I played when I played, and knew the rewards are the time and I made my decision. I don't want the implementation delayed by even a day because they are concerned with that aspect of it.

At least some of this feature will have to be retroactive. So im willing to bet it's retroactive across the board. But only time will tell.

Arphaxad

Now this sounds exciting!! A lot of potential to breath life into the game. Keep up the good work D3!

Vohnkar

This sounds promising.

BigBZ32

Here's hoping that vets get a lot of extra ISO for their rankings.

TimGunn

I'm optimistic.

But the question is whether we should hoard resources. Maybe hoard ISO or CP? It was a big boon last January when we hoarded covers in advance of champion feature.

Spudgutter

BigBZ32 wrote:

Here's hoping that vets get a lot of extra ISO for their rankings.

Let's also hope that the rewards aren't spaced out super far apart (I'm looking at you, season Versus rewards...)

GrumpySmurf1002

OJSP wrote:

Will this be awarded retroactively? Would our past performances count?

This is my biggest question. Seems like it has to, but I've played this game long enough not to expect it.

SnowcaTT

TimGunn wrote:

I'm optimistic.

But the question is whether we should hoard resources. Maybe hoard ISO or CP? It was a big boon last January when we hoarded covers in advance of champion feature.

That's what I would like to know. I heard whispers from the community to hoard for championing and it certainly helped. It would have been nice to hear that info directly from the devs, but that won't usually happen - they want you to spend it all now and then spend it all again later.

I'd love to hear these whispers from the community again (although in general, "hoard if you can" is almost always good advice).

Quebbster

udonomefoo wrote:

LordXberk wrote:

Quebbster wrote:

Interesting. I may hold off my transition to fivestar land a bit to see what this feature entails.

My biggest question surrounding this is what (if any) rewards will I potentially lose by progressing between now and whenever this is rolled out? Second biggest question is about timing and will it come out in stages or all at once? Plus, when is 'late fall?'

I'm taking a leap here, but I don't think you'll "miss" anything. I'm betting that the higher your Shield Level is, the more Clearance Levels you'll be able to access. Think additional progression rewards that are only available to players above a certain rank.

If my guess is correct, then you'll actually be hurting yourself by not progressing while waiting for it to be implemented.

I should clarify. I have been building a wide roster so far with almost two dozen fourstar champions and all two-stars and three-stars championed. I was planning to move to the fivestar tier by maxing OML and Phoenix, but now I am curious if this encourages me to widen my roster even further before proceeding.

Ludaa

What would even be rewarded retroactively? All I'm reading is that our rank will be auto judged by roster/days played and that will give us clearance to different reward sets for the current events.