Maximum Profile Level

[Kuffesat]

i once saw a random join my lobby and after we were finished with the mission, i noticed that his profile level was 3000+ and it made me curious on his progress on the game, i asked him about his level and apparently he left the moment i asked that, i assumed other players have asked the same question about him, his profile was also private, so you couldn't see his progress
my question is, does this game have a limit on levels? is there a maximum level? and if so, how long would it take to achieve that?

[RaindropperinG]

Originally posted by Scuzz:

Originally posted by Fryskar:

While i haven't played drg in weeks, i'm certain that some of the last one i played with, were (although not openly) accusing me of cheating (somewhere around playerrank750).
Dude joins, looks around 5s and leaves. Or kicks after a well won match w.o. any line of any side written in the match.

Having a very high rank is not too beneficial these times.

Ya, it was around level 600-700 where people started accusing me of cheating. God forbid I drop to a Haz 4 to complete an assignment mission. Or better yet, get a level 30 join my Haz 5 and tell me I'm not legit. I get just as much if not more discrimination at higher levels than I did as a greenbeard. And it's a shame, I love playing with players of all skill levels. Hell, I still just love playing the game in most any circumstances.
Gimme a bug to shoot and an ore vein to mine and I'm easy to please.

While I'm not even close to such levels, I can imagine it being a tad annoying when people assume that one's high rank was obtained via cheating.

Though, I'm fairly sure that many other dwarves look at such numbers without malice, or with some form of respect, even.

May ye keep enjoying the game along with all kinds of dwarves, old and new, lad!

[【🐲】Kobayashi Tohru ★]

Originally posted by Scuzz:

Originally posted by Fryskar:

While i haven't played drg in weeks, i'm certain that some of the last one i played with, were (although not openly) accusing me of cheating (somewhere around playerrank750).
Dude joins, looks around 5s and leaves. Or kicks after a well won match w.o. any line of any side written in the match.

Having a very high rank is not too beneficial these times.

Ya, it was around level 600-700 where people started accusing me of cheating. God forbid I drop to a Haz 4 to complete an assignment mission. Or better yet, get a level 30 join my Haz 5 and tell me I'm not legit. I get just as much if not more discrimination at higher levels than I did as a greenbeard. And it's a shame, I love playing with players of all skill levels. Hell, I still just love playing the game in most any circumstances.
Gimme a bug to shoot and an ore vein to mine and I'm easy to please.

Based and Dwarfpilled

[Bongoboy]

I have 1067 hours as of right now with a Player Level of 518.

According to the Wiki:
Your progress as a player is also tracked at the top right of the screen on the Player Badge, the blue gem which shows your name and player rank in title and number form, as well as your current credit balance. You rank up each time the blue gem fills all three of its sections up, and one section fills up each time you gain a level with one of the four classes or promoting a character.

Each class starts at level 1, so 24 and then you can Promote them 18 times. Each time you promote them, according to the wiki they gain one level, from 25 to 1.

That would mean:
Per class you can reach 19*25 class levels, minus 1. That would be 474 levels for one class. That times the 4 classes would be 1,896 and then per 3 class levels you gain one Player Level so as of right now the maximum Player Level is 632. And I think it is capped because you need to gain 3 class level to gain 1 Player Level.

Originally posted by Idahoan:

There were a few periods in developement where xp bugs existed that allowed some insanely fast leveling (and triple xp bonus with retired dwarves, before promotions existed). Some people who played regularly then exceeded level 500, so I would not be surprised if there were some legit players with ranks exceeding 1000

I play since Deep Rock Galactic went 1.0 so there is something I didn't experience, according to the Wiki:
Promotions were known as Retirement in Update 18: Job Opportunities and changed in Update 19. Instead of keeping all unlocked class items, Retirement reset all unlocked class items.
So it is possible that... if someone played prior to Update 19, they could raise a class to level 15, then "retire" it and thus reset it's level and all, and then go on about it raising it to 25 again... which would give you 8.33 player level each time you retire a Dwarf. However seeing that it got changed with the next Update, Update 19 where we got that promotion system we have now I am not so sure how many people really legally leveled Player Level up allot.
If what Idahoan says is true, then there might be some that misused that bug to level up Player Level, though for what cause I don't know.

I would say, everyone that has a Player Level far exceeding 632 without having each class at least at Gold... did probably cheat.
I would guess that you need somewhere around 1500 hours to get each class to Legendary III 25 and thus Player Level 632.

[The Loan Ranger]

Originally posted by Lithariel:

That would mean:
Per class you can reach 19*25 class levels, minus 1. That would be 474 levels for one class. That times the 4 classes would be 1,896 and then per 3 class levels you gain one Player Level so as of right now the maximum Player Level is 632. And I think it is capped because you need to gain 3 class level to gain 1 Player Level.

It is not capped. You can continue promoting and increasing your blue level even if all of your dwarfs are legendary 3.

The rule of thumb is 2 hours for every 1 player level. This varies based on skill and mission selection. There are plenty of folks in the discord with their player rank over 1,000 and a few of those over 2,000 all with the hours to back it up.

[Frisky]

yeah 3000 hours on a private profile and leaving upon being asked would raise a few eyebrows

I'm at 1.6k hours and my level is about 770, haven't gotten accused of cheating yet myself but I'd imagine people would think I am if I broke out my bronze 3 scout lol (I almost never play scout)

[Ser Pounce]

Originally posted by The Loan Ranger:

The rule of thumb is 2 hours for every 1 player level. This varies based on skill and mission selection. There are plenty of folks in the discord with their player rank over 1,000 and a few of those over 2,000 all with the hours to back it up.

That calculation only works if you're promoting as fast as possible though. I have over 1K hours and I'm missing a fair bit of level (lvl 320+) because I didn't do the retirement system (prestige was never something fun to me) early on.


Why the necro btw ?

[koan]

Holy necro, Batman

[Bongoboy]

Originally posted by The Loan Ranger:

It is not capped. You can continue promoting and increasing your blue level even if all of your dwarfs are legendary 3.

Oh I didn't know that lol, should have known that earlier. I love to play Driller and Engineer... and because both are Legendary*** I was start to play Gunner and Scout more(which where like silver lol). So if you can continue to promote a Legendary*** once he is 25, then that's cool... and I can go play Driller without feeling bad as to not gain Player Levels

I got my hours not because I do nothing else like breathing or sleeping, then playing Deep Rock Galactic. But if you go on once a week, do a DD, EDD, the two assignments plus the eventually Promotion assignments... with the two DD you already are at 2 hours... if they finished in the first try.
I usually play a mission or two every other day. Time tickles in.

[Council of Karls]

Legit lvl 1000 here

[R.-]

Originally posted by Lithariel:

I would guess that you need somewhere around 1500 hours to get each class to Legendary III 25 and thus Player Level 632.

Now that you know there's no cap, I'd only reply to this part:

No you don't. I reached Player Rank 600 (all Legendary 3) in around 800 hours. I'm now at PR 1550 with almost 2000 hours; it's the same pace.

I don't speed run. (Or maybe I do in a greenbeard's eyes, but that's how I play)
I don't join ending missions. (I even quit if I joined one by mistake)
I don't play double-xp more than helping with my pals' assignments. (But I like them, who doesn't?)

Not sure who came up with that 2-hour-one-level theory, but it's not great in telling who's cheating because:
1. It only applies to casual players.
2. Cheaters can easily bump their hours up by AFKing. (I've seen a profile that gained like 250 hours in 2 weeks. That's an insult to my intelligence.)


I started to get questioned about my level at around 900; never directly accused of cheating, tho. Maybe it's because legit players at around 400~600 are not that rare around my region.

[madracc00n]

Lvl doesnt matter.Also there is always someone who is playing 12 hours every day for years.

[YuyaTurtle]

At the moment, I know a streamer who is around level 1600. he plays every day for hours for like at least a year now & some of his teammate is also in 1000s lol. They aren't cheating either. just playing a lot...