It also depends on leadership because when i first joined in 2010 it took me 4 years to get my first =eG= and i asked the CM at the time because when i was playing there was no admins on for at night for jail and it was bad. so he understood where i was coming from and gave it to me. Then more people started to get on at night and i gave up my G and left for 3 years(on good terms). I joined back with different leadership and got it a couple of months after i returned. I didn't do anything different, same as when i first joined report bans, be active, help others. So yes what everyone here said is correct. There is also a cs player who joined around the same time i returned and got there =eG= the same time i did and got there =eGO= a month after that, just because they was active and got the server eGO friendly by reporting bans and helping out others.