ranks start to settle more or less at tick 500 but it, as most that is to conquer is conquered, but wars will change that. Before at least tick 500 ranks mean nothingid like to very much disagree with this statement at around tick 500 on a current world i was rank 650 now it is tick 2300 and i am rank 46, a big change as you can see there is no reason why u cant advance ranks during the entire game (unlee youre rank 1
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