Reply To: I am on fire right now

#18453
Kappamerc
Spectator

This is just my take on the ranking system. If you don’t care, don’t read, I’m simply bored and feel like typing about something ^_^.

 

I find the system to be rather annoying. Half of the time that I play I find myself pitted against a decent new player to our server who is skilled but not necessarily better than me and I drop 1-10 places simply because they are new and gain points exponentially faster than I. Of course most poeple would say ‘don’t die’ but really, when you kill 20 people and die 5 times and come out with -points and -positions there is something wrong. Just because a player doesn’t have a lot of points doesn’t mean that they aren’t skilled but with this system it does mean u get less points and they get tons. In most ranking systems it would seem to me that high ranked players could take high ranked positions while low ranked players would have to work their way up to the high ranks to start taking those posistions.

 

For example: Ranks 1-100 or 1-50 get normal points for killing eachother and less for killing people below that rank. Ranks 101+ (In any brackets desired) get normal points for their bracket and less for anything outside that bracket. Just because rank 3000 kills rank 1 doesn’t mean rank 1 should lose 200 points. Rank 3000 has to climb the ladder before having the pleasure of taking that seat. (This is simply my opinion. Kinda like boxing where you can’t face #1 until u go thru the rest).

 

This system is what I would consider a more fair way of ranking (I doubt this system even exists but it would be nice if it did).

I believe it would also require a monthly reset just to keep things fun and interesting. Having a chance at #1 each month seems more entertaining that trying to reach #1 whose been #1 for three months. Even on our current system, monthly resets would keep the server more interesting and dynamic. Seeing the same people with huge amounts of points in the top10 for three to four months becomes stagnant imo.

 

Anywho, time for sleep ^_^

 

Honestly I think the current ranking sucks but that is simply my opinion and I haven’t experienced many source ranking mods so I can’t compare. I do remember enjoying psychostats for regular CS but that was ages ago.