Talk:Medals

Upgrading your medals
I've noticed that all the pages reguarding medal say that you have to gain experiance to upgrade to next medal. I rarely have time to do any battles so i mostly do streetsweeper II and III when i can (and have option to do so). It normally takes about the exact number of ops as the descriptions say for campaign evaluations. And about 2 campaign battles. I am only making about 3000 xp at most but probably around 9000 AN. Maybe we should change it to "experiance gain/Allied Notes obtained". Cause while the numbers are almost spot on. I don't agree with experiance being the main requirement to warrent it being the only part of the discription.--Azaron 08:10, 9 June 2008 (UTC)

It has always been my impression that medal rank ups are based on Allied Notes and not exp gained. You can acquire exp but not allied notes by fighting beasts in the WoTG areas and not rank up. Campaign OPs grant more Allied Notes than exp and help to offset the ratio acquired from Campaign Battle, allowing you to rank up with more notes than exp acquired, particularly helpful when you're close to medal expiration time. Also, given the gross disproportion of exp gained for mages/magic casting damage in Campaign Battles compared to DD/melee-induced damage, requiring exp for medal rank up would be quite unfair to those that are non-DD jobs. Whereas anyone/any job can do a Campaign Ops for the same amount of Allied Notes (assuming job level allows for 100% reward). Denaunie 15:25, 6 July 2008 (UTC)

XP/Allied Notes per Rank
Just to verify what is said above, a friend of mine just received his Iron Emblem of Service, and he's been keeping track of XP gained (but not Allied Notes unfortunately). He has received 16,545 XP since last rank up. He was below 15k at last notice and did not have rank up. If it's based on XP, I'd say the Emblem level is 15k, as opposed to the current listed 25k. I'd like to hear from more people before changing it though. -- 01:25, 24 June 2008 (UTC)