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swimmerdude99 wrote:When I stick to team games I easily stay above 2500 but when I start playing 1v1s or any type of standard games with lower ranks no matter how many I win (unless its like 50%) I can't stay up because when lower ranks win they take like 40 points.
chang50 wrote:When I manage to claw my way up to 2000 points,I find I have to win 2.5 games for every loss just to hold rank.
chapcrap wrote:chang50 wrote:When I manage to claw my way up to 2000 points,I find I have to win 2.5 games for every loss just to hold rank.
I find this to be unbelievable. You have to win 71% of your games to break even? Maybe as a Brig or higher. Not as a major.
chapcrap wrote:chang50 wrote:When I manage to claw my way up to 2000 points,I find I have to win 2.5 games for every loss just to hold rank.
I find this to be unbelievable. You have to win 71% of your games to break even? Maybe as a Brig or higher. Not as a major.
agentcom wrote:I thought for sure I'd hold on to my hat the last time I got it based on the games I was involved in. Alas, no luck. What chap said earlier is exactly right. It will depend on what types of games you're playing. For example, I consider myself a fairly solid player who likes to mix up maps and settings. I join a fair share of tournaments and also have multiple groups of people that I like to play with whether it's dubs, trips or quads. I have a couple go to maps that I know I'll gain points on, but I don't like to have too many games of the same type going on at a time. I don't think that I'm in danger of losing these swords anytime soon, but I know that it's going to be awhile before I'll hold on to a hat for any extended period of time. So for my style of play, I'd say it gets "hard" for me to hold on to my rank at colonel. If I played exclusively 1 v 1 games on my strongest maps, it would probably start getting hard much higher than that.
chang50 wrote:agentcom wrote:I thought for sure I'd hold on to my hat the last time I got it based on the games I was involved in. Alas, no luck. What chap said earlier is exactly right. It will depend on what types of games you're playing. For example, I consider myself a fairly solid player who likes to mix up maps and settings. I join a fair share of tournaments and also have multiple groups of people that I like to play with whether it's dubs, trips or quads. I have a couple go to maps that I know I'll gain points on, but I don't like to have too many games of the same type going on at a time. I don't think that I'm in danger of losing these swords anytime soon, but I know that it's going to be awhile before I'll hold on to a hat for any extended period of time. So for my style of play, I'd say it gets "hard" for me to hold on to my rank at colonel. If I played exclusively 1 v 1 games on my strongest maps, it would probably start getting hard much higher than that.
Are you sure about the final part of your post,I think a Major playing 1v1 is equivalent to at least a Colonel playing multiple games,would take a lot of proving either way.
Kaskavel wrote:From personal experience, it seems that world 2.1 can preserve a low major and foggy peloponesian war can preserve a specialized colonel. Hive can do much better of course. Simple maps like classic will not allow you to hold on even trivial standings like 1700 points.
shasha16 wrote:Just had my first demotion last week, from sergeant back down to corporal first class. Just got my sergeant stripes back, the issues is keeping them this time. At what level does it become difficult to hold onto your rank.
JediJoe wrote:Personally, I would almost prefer to do away with ranks - but that wouldn't be much fun in such a competitive game, no would it?
I hardly ever join public games filled with new people anymore. Why? I usually get targeted at some point for being a higher ranked player in the game. I can usually win if someone doesn't suicide on me (which usually happens in those games I find... especially when I run my mouth ). But many times, you're targeted right out of the gate for being higher ranked in a relatively low ranked game.
Kaskavel wrote:Simple maps like classic will not allow you to hold on even trivial standings like 1700 points.
pickleofdoom wrote:Kaskavel wrote:Simple maps like classic will not allow you to hold on even trivial standings like 1700 points.
I would object a little bit there. I think thats a bit pesimistic. Playing against all comers, it is posible to hold 2500+ with 6 player esc. Problem is people tend to make a lot of 8 player games. Hard to get a win % too far away from 12.5% in those, at least in my experience. 6 player esc is the one the society of cooks specialise in so in principle anyone can learn the basicsl on those settings. As well as being a good setting for earning your swords/hat and occasionally brig, I think it is more entertaining than 8 because there is more blocking and ducking and diving.
It is not possible to get the big kill ratio like you can on a map like waterloo, but it is far from being a complete lottery.
JediJoe wrote:Personally, I would almost prefer to do away with ranks - but that wouldn't be much fun in such a competitive game, no would it?
I hardly ever join public games filled with new people anymore. Why? I usually get targeted at some point for being a higher ranked player in the game. I can usually win if someone doesn't suicide on me (which usually happens in those games I find... especially when I run my mouth ). But many times, you're targeted right out of the gate for being higher ranked in a relatively low ranked game.
shasha16 wrote:JediJoe wrote:Personally, I would almost prefer to do away with ranks - but that wouldn't be much fun in such a competitive game, no would it?
I hardly ever join public games filled with new people anymore. Why? I usually get targeted at some point for being a higher ranked player in the game. I can usually win if someone doesn't suicide on me (which usually happens in those games I find... especially when I run my mouth ). But many times, you're targeted right out of the gate for being higher ranked in a relatively low ranked game.
I think it also works the other way around. People will target low ranks because you'll lose far more points losing to a cook than a colonel.
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