haha probably the best post this yr <| sep |> I don ' t think it was very effective at staggering specialty classes at all . I think it was the opposite . Think of it this way If you wanted a permanent pilot , either you would buy an academy trained one , or buy a new soldier and grind him to level 6 . Repeat that for all three factions if you like experiencing everything . Nowadays , new players are limited to buying the academy trained pilots . Player levels aren ' t much of a barrier either , since it only takes about a week to get into gold matchmaking level . To be honest , I have never played paratrooper before the hotfix , cause it was on my grinding todo list . But now I ' ve played a couple of matches since they removed the rank restriction for legacy soldiers .