Quote from: BGMI on Today at 08:38:16 AM

so basically more than an year is the ideal time which can take upto 2-3 years as well.

490 : 14 = 35 activity update period or equal to 17.5 month. This means that if you manage to get 500 merit and claim 490 activity points in 17.5 months, then I'm sure you will rank up to hero member. But it's just a basic formula which in reality will not be shared by all users on this forum due to many factors. But the formula worked for all forum users before the merit system was introduced.

Take just one example: On October 19th, I will be 2 years old on this forum as a young user. I managed to rank up to Hero members last week when I managed to collect 490 activity points even though I already got 1000 merit faster. But you'll find plenty of other examples that will prove that there were thousands of users before me who were still stuck in the ranks of newbie, Jr members, Members, Full members and Sr members even though they had enough activity points - but they didn't have enough merit. So everything is not the same, everyone will definitely have a different forum journey, there is no right time to rank.