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There are the following ranks (& their descriptions). MERCENARY: MERCENARY AND YOU PROVIDE RESULTS. BE DISCREET AND GET THE JOB DONE WELL. VIPER: CRUCIAL MEMBER OF THE BATTLE INFANTRY AND SUPPORT. VIPERS ARE THE FOOT SOLDIERS. SPECIALTY VIPERS: N ADVANCE VIPER, WHICH RANGE FROM EELS, TECHNO-VIPERS, TELE-VIPERS AND ADDITIONAL FIELD VIPERS. HIGHLY TRAINED IN THEIR RESPECTIVE SPECIALTY AND CALLED UPON WHEN NEEDED. BLUE SHIRTS: STEP ABOVE THE STANDARD COBRA. BLUE SHIRTS TEND TO BE HIGHLY INTELLIGENT AND ADEPT ON THE BATTLEFIELD. CRIMSON GUARD: PART OF THE COBRA SPECIAL FORCES, RESERVE UNIT. TOO VALUABLE FOR BATTLEFIELD, THIS IS THE HIGHEST ECHELON OF THE COBRA SPECIAL FORCES. I believe that you can increase rank by recruit more friends over facebook. Also if you want to look at the cube rotating, here it is:http://www.cobraspecialforces.com/swf/spatial_1.swf
Michael, since you are using your referral link to the recruitment page, can you tell us if this has increased your rank as more people join?
wow thanks for all of that Matt. and to answer your question, I honestly don’t know. I tried this again but still got the same rank
They’ve added another test before the first two and after doing that I went up to specialty viper. It also has a bar on the top right that shows users I referred and says refer 9 more users (I have 1) to go up a rank.