Change the ranks to give newbs a chance!

In the early days of DO 1 star even 2 star badge rank was relatively easy to get. I made 2 star within about 6 months without buying uri.

Back then there was about 90k accounts showing in the company stats so there was quite a few 1 and 2 stars badges available, out of the 90k ish accounts only around 10% where active.

In my cynical view (looking at how linear the fall in active accounts has been compared to week on week accounts adding any EP ) The number of account that affect badge rank have been reduced in a controlled manner, to gradually reduce the number of high rank badges to encourage WW to spend, chase the fewer and fewer available badges.

Although I would say there should be a minimum number of say 50k accounts to calculate the number of badges available for each rank, I would suggest DO will not artificiality increase the number of top badge ranks.

 

Tbf you shouldn't really bother with ranks. They don't do anything but make your ship look better. Now days people's assume that cuz someone's chief major or above, it automatically means that players good, but it's usually the opposite.

Just focus more on ur ship m8

 

Who told you that?

 

A lot of people like rank badge as a sign of doing something it has nothing to do with we are not working for them it has something to do with rank points never stop rising so player from today has a harder time getting a higher rank than a person who has been playing since the game starting adding an unfair advantage to rank holders. Although it does not make your ship stronger it can be used as a moral boost to the player since gonna take a while for his ship to get just FE so giving them somthing to also look forward to is there rank which is the reason why we have them and also the reason why some players pay $ to keep certain ranks like the companies General.

 

I overheard that, higher the rank the harder you hit? For the reason that, if you become an outlaw you are seriously weak, fact!

 

'the higher the rank the harder you hit? ' That isn't true, it's absolutely Jiberish. Rank doesn't determine how much a player hits. It's just people make an assumption that Higher ranked players, inflict more damage. Also it doesn't make a player better in anyway (perhaps in just chasing rank)

Like on my server, there are some basic colonel ( or higher) ranked players who are terrible then players who are ranked below them.
Some that are even UFE with 1 star and stuff, and yet they still get beaten by say a basic major who's just passed the 'F.E' stage.

Outlaw isn't really a rank. It only makes you weaker, perhaps so you can't defend yourself from your own company because you have negative honor - so its a type of punishment perhaps ( my assumption ) .

 

I'm not going to have Newbies with 1 star badges going around bragging about it meanwhile what took me over an year to achieve.

 

If people are so concerned with their rank they should work for it like we always have. A rank would be worthless if they just gave everyone a colonel so they could feel like they accomplished something. If you want a colonel star then earn it.

 

Besides, the secret behind getting a better rank, is more honor. INCREASE YOUR HONOR GAINS

 

And if zynaps stopped moving companies, he would have more honour^^

 

And if he stopped going nme companies he wouldn't have been popped by me over and over again and he would have had more rank points

 

I have a post in `idea pool` titled `you want to take your ship to other servers` The first reply to this post was along the lines of `this cannot be done due to math, rank points, blah, blah, blah. I do not mean, nor attempt to be sarcastic or even disrespectful to those players who look at rank and aim to be a higher rank than they currently have. As an answer to the OP, I think the rank/badge system is fine. I have a shield rank and I`m happy with that, I consider a striped rank to be a noobs rank. Getting that shield is, and should be viewed as an achievement. The star, which I lost many year ago, is a testament to a players perseverence.

I would like to point out that the current rank system has *estimated *75% of players in that system either banned or retired. So having said I am happy with my rank, It isn`t really a true reflection of active players current achievements and needs to be drastically overhauled.

 

I was at a much lower TU listing rank when I first received my 1 Star badge back in 2009 compared to the TU rank I have today. Back then I got my 1 star at around TU rank 450. My 2 Star I got at around TU rank 90.
Back then there was around 90k accounts being use to calculate rank for GB1 when there was significantly less than 10% of those accounts playing each week.

Today there are about 6200 accounts being used to calculate the rank for GB1 with about 1500 playing each week so it is closer to 25%.

So in real terms we have lost more than 2.5x the amount of 1 and 2 star badges.

I would say this has been done for financial reasons. So that high spenders chase fewer and fewer colonel and Chief Colonel badges.

All that need to be done is accounts that do not add any EP for say 4 wks lose their badge and the percentage of players with each badge increase so that there are say, 20 1 stars and 100 2 star per company.

 

When I was a noob, I looked forward to ranking up. I was really happy everytime I ranked up, so ranks do matter to noobs. Its like a sort of motivation.

 

Hi there Pacman
I bow to your knowledge. Non active players ranking should be taken into account when calculating active players ranking. I agree with Blah also, rank does matter! I have become active on the forum for one reason only...To add my voice in a futile attempt to get low populated servers merged. It is my understanding that one of, if not the biggest problem to this ever happening is the ranking system

 

the ranking system is something that has been in place since it first started personally I wouldn't worry about the ranks to much not many are fussed about it unless they are highly ranked I would otherwise suggest putting the titles the way it use to be were you have to fight for them win them etc ..made the game more intense and a hell of a lot more fun also made people play more

 

Turnip, no disrespect...But your grammar needs going over. Therefore, I suggest you proof read your post's before posting them. On the other hand, you may want to edit it?


Thanks for the input.

 

nah it was alright just misspelled one thing lol

 

posts*

There is no need for an apostrophe.

 

well said sir