User blog comment:BadBitch/This game is made to be free by BadBitch/@comment-1817881-20140829103406

My first time ranking after 1 month of playing i places 336, s a free player and without the help of my alliance (that is inactive/casual so near to 0 sends).

So yes if you want is possible to rank even without having ur. Actually you don't even need to have a good team to kill faw, be able to kill constantly aw with a 95% of success rate is enough since you won't kill tour faw since you will be sending them to your traders and you won't kill your send as well to avoid sniping.

Ranking is only about having good traders and time to dedicate to it.

Of course tanking into AD require lots of money, but if you are in a really active alliance and are present to all round you can still take the UR without spending a penny.