Opening up the ranks

So this idea has been suggested many times in old forum may as well put it in the mew one.Simple scrap the system we got now.New system: 10,000 & less
Per company
1 General
4 3 Stars
16 2 Stars
64 1 Stars
etc. Basically more slots for people to chase.

 

Hi _-DarkOverLord-_

Maersk here from the same server you play Good to see you in the forums.

Now here's the way I see it. I don't think it should go on exponential factors of 4. I know the rest of the game is built that way (HP, for instance), but ranks shouldn't be. Reason being is this:

1 General
4 Basic General
16 Chief Colonel
64 Colonel
256 Basic Colonel
1,024 Chief Major
4,096 Major
16,384 Basic Major
65,536 Chief Captain


You see where I'm going? There would be WAY too many slots for a higher rank. You would have people fresh out of the tutorial bearing the rank of Basic Major. Our companies on the server hold between 7,700 to 8,000 people each. That means we have around 24,000 people on our server, which means everyone would be ranked Chief Captain at the lowest. I think it should go on an exponential factor of 2.

1 General (G)
2 Basic General (BG)
4 Chief Colonel (CC)
8 Colonel (C)
16 Basic Colonel (BC)
32 Chief Major (CM)
64 Major (M)
128 Basic Major (BM)
256 Chief Captain (CH)
512 Captain (CA)
1,024 Basic Captain (BA)
2,048 Chief Lieutenant (CL)
4,096 Lieutenant (L)
8,192 Basic Lieutenant (BL)
16,384 Chief Sergeant (CS)
32,768 Sergeant (S)


And so on. However, I would say to let your PIR (Position in Ranking) let you determine your rank. For instance, I'm ranked 411 at the moment, and if taken by the chart above, GLINT would be the server General, and I would be one of the server's Chief Captains, which ironically is my current rank. I see it confusing to have people ranked as a Colonel such as Rehan and ekw. If you're a Colonel, you shouldn't be that far up. The Hall of Fame, if followed by that chart would then look like this:

1. G
2. BG
3. BG
4. CC
5. CC
6. CC
7. CC
8. C
9. C
411. CH


That's how the Hall Of Fame would look better. If your rank points determine your rank, why should it determine your position? Let the ranks be assorted like they are, but show it by rank. So you would put General first, the whoever had the higher rank points for Basic General would take 2nd. Now on an exponential factor of 2, the numbers get huge when it hits BSP. This is why they implemented the percentage into the game, per company. However, I think it should be overall according to the server. So the whole server would have 1 General, 2 Basic Generals fighting for that position, 4 Chief Colonels fighting for the BG position, and so on.


However, that's my view. I don't see the point in having 3 Generals 4-5 spots apart on the rankings. It makes no sense. If anything, put company leadership as another tab where you would check the top user, to see positions in the company, rather than overall on the server.


See ya on the battlefield Dark


--Maersk
VRU Chief Captain

 

Maybe they could like open up more ranks just for the higher ones , e.g. The chief colonel & basic general - perhaps they could set up a number the amount of people that could have those ranks per company( just like general) and keep it that way. For for instance on my server there's 1 chief colonel per company, so they could set it to like say 4 chiefs and 2 basics per company and keep it like that. And should do they same for other ranks (depending on how many players there is in a company).

Or they could just keep the rank system how it is now

 

i think 1 ranking point for 100000 experience is to low that should change. for example 1 ranking point for 10000 xp is better

 

LOLZ I should have kept doing the math.I agree with your idea.Just wanted
that aspect back in the game.Funny, I didn't really care about rank until it
started disappearing Cya in the maps Maersk.

 

Thanks for the feedback. The ranks, true, are getting harder. In the VRU, I see Basic Major jump from 306,511 to 326,751, then down to 311,309, then up to 315,673, then back down to 303,000. So I never know if I'm close or not. I'm at 298,711 so I'm hoping it jumps back down again lol.

See ya on the maps

--Maersk

 

Germany 1, VRU had 10 Basic Generals at one point, now whilst that might be a bit too much, the ranks at the moment are stupid;
The small servers only have 1 Cheif Colonel. There is no way it should be as rare to see a Chief Colonel as it is to see a General ...

It used to be that a Chief Colonel in the top 9 was a rare right years ago, it was solely Generals and Basic Gens. Now almost every server has a Colonel in the top 9.
It won't be long until Basic Colonels become a common sigh in the top 9, some servers already have them.

Something does need to be does about the rank system, but maybe 2 Basic Generals, 4 Chief Colonels etc as minimum.

 

That's exactly what I was saying

 

An interesting idea, though even going up by factors of 2 wouldn't sort all players into every rank. '32,768 Sergeant (S)'. my suggestion is that the rank system should open wider for the top ranks and decrease for the lower ranks in order to skew the majority of players into the middle ranks. Otherwise to have the rank system as it is.
the current rank systems are as follows:

..............General ..................Max 1 per company
..............Basic General...........0.01% of company
..............Chief Colonel............0.1% of company
..............Colonel ..................0.5% of company
............. Basic Colonel ......... 1% of company
..............Chief Major............ 1.5% of company
..............Major ................... 2% of company
..............Basic Major ............2.5% of company
..............Chief Captain .........3% of company
..............Captain ................ 3.5% of company
..............Basic Captain ........ 4% of company
..............Chief Lieutenant .....4.5% of company
............. Lieutenant .............5% of company
..............Basic Lieutenant..... 6% of company
..............Chief Sergeant....... 7% of company
..............Sergeant ...............8% of company
...............Basic Sergeant ....... 9% of company
...............Chief Space Pilot .....10% of company
.................Space Pilot .............12.29% of company
.................Basic Space Pilot .....20% of company
(credit goes to ASTRAEA from the old forums)

my opinion is that the greater percentages at the lower end become slimmer and those nearer to the top become wider.
obviously keeping General as it is.
e.g. colonel -0.05% --> 0.1 %
basic colonel -1% --> 1.3 %
...
...
chief space pilot -10% --> 9.3%
space pilot -12.29% --> 9%

apart from basic space pilot and general, the two next to them being low in rank, then steadily increasing to a peak somewhere along the middle of the ranks.

Having actual figures might not be so good as some servers have much fewer players and some have many more players.

 

What needs to happen is all the accts that got banned due to botting ,pushing etc.. should be removed from ranking stats period.that would change alot of each legits players stats.