Ranks measure team-specific progression in San Diego Border Roleplay. Official badge descriptions reveal four reliable endpoints: Chief of the Line for Border Patrol, Troop Commander for Police, Captain for US Army, and Director for FBI. They do not publish the ranks in between, their XP thresholds, or every reward. This guide uses those endpoints as anchors and shows how to record the current ladder from the live interface without filling gaps from another game or an old server.
Separate team ranks
Treat each team as its own progression track until the current interface proves otherwise. A Border Patrol action should be measured against the Border Patrol display, and Police work against Police progress. US Army and FBI endpoints also do not prove that those teams are free, always selectable, or ranked by the same actions.
Record team, displayed rank, progress label, and server date before doing anything. If changing teams alters the rank panel, save each state separately. Do not merge similarly named ranks across roles.
Verified rank endpoints
Chief of the Line awards for reaching the maximum Border Patrol rank. Troop Commander awards for reaching the maximum rank in Police, Captain for the maximum US Army rank, and Director for the maximum FBI rank. Federal Career instead requires at least a Tier III rank on every federal team. Border Veteran is a separate throughput milestone for processing 25 Civilians, not a maximum-rank badge.
An endpoint does not reveal the complete ladder. Avoid inventing junior titles, rank counts, thresholds, or an order based on real-world agencies. Use only names visible in the current team or progress interface.
Capture the current ladder
Open the team’s rank or progress interface and transcribe only what it displays: current rank, next rank, progress amount or bar, and any named unlock. If the interface reveals later ranks one at a time, do not guess the hidden remainder. Update the record after a promotion.
Use screenshots for personal verification but keep account identifiers private. Add the server date because a biweekly-development schedule makes thresholds and rewards changeable. If two live servers disagree, label the result as a possible rollout rather than selecting the preferred answer.
Measure which actions progress a rank
Choose one team and one objective. For Border Patrol, official achievement examples include granting a Civilian entry, sending one to secondary inspection, and scanning one with the Scanner. For Police, the official First Catch badge confirms killing or arresting a wanted criminal as a recognized goal. These badges prove game actions, not exact rank XP values.
Record progress before and after one completed action. Keep approvals, secondary decisions, scans, arrests, eliminations, patrol time, and any other objectives in separate rows. A mixed session cannot show which action caused a promotion.
Border Patrol promotion route
Learn the primary checkpoint decision first. Complete valid approvals without blocking traffic, then practice a correct secondary redirection and scanner interaction. Check the rank display after a fixed set. Repeating legitimate roleplay actions is a safer basis than AFK or automated farming.
The official game warns that cheats and automated farming can lead to bans. Do not use macros, unattended loops, alternate-account feeding, or exploits to manufacture rank. A rank guide should teach the job, not bypass it.
Police promotion route
Learn wanted-state identification, communication, safe approach, and the current arrest interaction. Record successful arrests separately from eliminations and failed pursuits. Do not generate wanted targets through harassment just to measure progress.
Current independent guides describe printer investigations, but the official badges do not confirm whether confiscating printers awards Police rank progress. Measure that action separately and label it Community corroborated until the live progress display changes reproducibly.
US Army, FBI, and other team ranks
Captain and Director are the official US Army and FBI endpoints. Their public badges do not describe team access, activities, vehicles, tools, or the steps to reach them. Verify each current team-selection and rank interface before planning. Do not copy Border Patrol or Police actions into either ladder.
Federal Career requires at least Tier III on every federal team. That wording proves a cross-team milestone but does not publish which current teams qualify, the Tier III thresholds, or whether a purchase is needed. Verify each included team in the live badge and role interface.
For any other team, first establish whether the live interface exposes a rank at all. Team access and roleplay identity do not necessarily imply a progression ladder. Leave unsupported sections blank rather than creating real-world titles.
Diagnose stalled rank progress
Confirm the correct team, current rank display, valid objective, completed interaction, and server connection. Check whether the action awarded a badge but not visible progress, or whether progress updated after a delay. Repeat one legitimate action in a controlled session.
If the display is unchanged, compare a fresh server and note the date. Do not claim an undocumented daily cap, cooldown, or bug without a visible message or repeatable evidence. The XP guide provides a worksheet for separating observations.
Keep a promotion record
Store team, starting rank, next displayed rank, starting progress, action type, completed count, ending progress, promotion, visible unlock, and date. That record can answer “what worked for me on this server” without pretending to be a permanent universal table.
Use Border Patrol and Police for job workflows. Open Badges for official milestone names and the Updates hub before trusting an older ladder.
Evidence notes
- Official badge descriptions: Official for Chief of the Line, Troop Commander, Captain, and Director as the Border Patrol, Police, US Army, and FBI endpoints, plus Tier III on every federal team for Federal Career.
- Official experience description: Official for team-specific roles and the anti-cheat or automated-farming warning.
- Full rank ladders, XP thresholds, rewards, promotion formulas, other teams, and fastest methods: Needs in-game testing.