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Area/Game:Blue Max
Topic:Suggestions, improvement, critics
Subject:Re: Ranks
Posted by: TXWard - 17years 239days ago.
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GraysGhost wrote:
dcr66 wrote:
scotireb wrote:
Trouble wrote:
I would like to see ranks for all the players. piloys starting out would be rookies and after 100 kills advance to 2nd lieutenant
,etc.


It might be fun but there would to many generals.


Not just generals, there will be a few Commander in Chiefs as well.


I think the number of kills is a red herring as some people take 1000 games to get 100 kills, whilst others take 200 games.

To get a rank it should be based on your success rate.

Divide the number of games by the number of kills. This gives a score that when multiplied by 100 gives an easier one to categorise (mine is about 31.82 at the moment) and ranks should be given based upon that score.

If you suddenly hit a bad spell and your rate reduces, then you are downgraded. That way everyone will not end up as Air Chief Marshalls.

Bad players will remain as Flight Sergeants and the better players improve over time.

Just a thought.

Kit


That's the problem when you start talking stats and rankings. There isn't a good method to use that isn't distorted somehow.

Number of kills is distorted by number of games played. Someone might achieve the same rank as another player even though it took 10X as many games to do so.

Percentage of kills to games is distorted by multiplayer games vs. duels. Your example is perfect for that. Despite being shot down more often than killing an opponent, your percentage of kills to games is still high.

I tend to look at the old statistics and average the rankings of the 3 categories. A pilot who is at the top of one list, but near the bottom of the other two is lower ranked than someone who is in the 50th place on all three.

Either way, it is just going to be another way to rank people and not an accurate gauge of their real skills.

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