What is up with ranked?

I NEVER said you get 0 EXP a game. Where are you getting this?

 

If RANKS updated after every game, it'd showed +0 Ranks almost all the time.

 

I don't even know what you are talking about anymore.

I've explained exactly how it works.

You have to ACTUALLY PERFORM BETTER than your Rating/Experience says you should, to gain Rating/Experience.

Playing worse will NOT do it.

 

That is mathematically impossible, but we will have the per-game updates in soon, so we'll see if this is actually true. You aren't the only one who claims to have gotten an impossibly low amount of EXP from games.

 

If you perform better than expected, you will gain Experience.

As you gain Experience, your expectations increase.

So no, you can't become Battlemaster with a 30% WR.

Not unless everyone else is worse.

It is 100% based on performance vs everyone else.

 

Since I don't know what your EXP and his EXP was before and after some date/games, there is nothing I can discern from that.

 

Since you don't seem to understand how it works... let me try again.

When the rare league wins a game, his EXP goes up. It will continue to do this as long as he is performing better than expected.

However, as his EXP increases, it'll be harder and harder to gain points. Just like it is difficult for top ranked players to do so, because they are already top ranked.

This is a RELATIVE system that is based on actual performance vs expected performance on a PER MATCH basis.

Rankings, on the other hand, are simply a list of everyone, based on their EXP values. Updating the number/logo in the client 240 times a day, 24 times a day, or once a day really isn't going to change who the top ranked players are at all in the vast majority of cases.

 

I answered it in the big reply to @h0spy , but I wanted to answer this specifically.

So the way we rank players, which allows us to display a rank in the client, is a DB-entry rank.

It does this by using a script that goes thru everyone's EXP values and sorts them, then writes into each player's profile their rank.

So anyone who knows programming will see why updating this instantly is not exactly a trivial thing to do, especially since we'd want it to dynamically update in the client.

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Another way to display "ranks" is to utilize tables. Instead of having a DB-entry showing a rank, we simply give a list of players and their EXP value, and let the table sort it. The table can have, fairly easy, a list of numbers.

For me, this isn't a real rank. This is just displaying a list. You can theoretically sort this by name, faction, or whatever else we provide in the dataset, and get a new "rank." This is because the table isn't assigning the numbers to anyone in particular, but just numbering the ROWs the player happens to occupy.

Notice how in this WOT table, which is done in this manner, you have "ranks" but when you change the sorting to another column, the "ranks" can change:




I want to be very clear here that none of these clans have these ranks in a retrievable way. You can't view a clan and see what their "rank" is in any of these categories. You can only see it thru these tables.

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Notice on Pox's table, changing the sort doesn't change the ranks:



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So when I say update the ranks once a week, I am indeed talking about the in-game numbers and icons.

And we can change the web to display "rank" as table numbering instead, which would give "real time ranking" in that sense, but isn't really true rank IMO, though it would probably serve the purpose for some people.

But updating real time in-game is very tricky. If anyone knows of a game that does it real time in-game that isn't just a tabled listing, I'd be interested in investigating it to see it works.