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why'd you delete my reply?
As far as I'm aware the skill works like this:
You kill a player of equal or greater skill -> Gives you large bonus to skill (for each kill)
You kill a player of less skill -> Gives you bonus but very little (each kill)
You get killed by a player with higher skill -> Gives you moderate reduction in skill (for each death)
You get killed by a player of lower skill than your own -> Gives very large reduction to skill (for each death)
If you happen to be killed by someone in a round who has terribly bad skill (hardcore is rife with this) then you will almost always have a rubbish game from a +/- skill, point of view.
I've had games where I get 20+ kills and between 1-3 deaths... yet still 0 or negative skill because the deaths were caused by a very low skill player. I have a funny feeling also that depending on whether or not its a knife, grenade, primary weapon or secondary weapon kill matters as well, and also if its a headshot or not.
The simple way to test is play a pistol only server - your skill rating is far more stable as the sill you gain from pistols seems to be higher - so combats the horrible penalty you get from deaths.
Its a simply idiotic way of calculating a players skill and it is an entirely meaningless stat - whats better is a combination of Score per minute and K/D. Why the "Skill" doesnt work out from the other stats - K/D, Accuracy, SPM, Win%, %Headshots etc etc... is totally beyond me.
If u search reddit you will find that someone pulled the information for the calculation from the site and it is quite interesting. It supposably takes 3 different stats, spm, kpm, and kill death compaired to a perfect game which appearantly is 1000spm, 3kpm, and 5kd. Therefore it becomes harder as you move up and is calculated on a game by game bases. This is the short version. http://www.reddit.com/r/battlefield_4/comments/1rlm5x/how_skill_is_calculated_solved/
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Its a very "one-sided" calculation...meaning its harder to go up and much, much easier for it to go down. Usually, a skill calculation would provide more balanced progression. In the big picture, skill doesn't mean much compared to the score/minute in my opinion, but at least they should have made it more balanced whether increasing or decreasing.
well the whole part about getting killed by a lower level player affects your skill negatively really blows cause there have been alot of players resetting their stats with the options you have in the settings. i dont think this is fair at all. if that is how they calculated skill, most of us could reset our stats over and over and keep getting alot of skill.
The post ges29 made, with the link: http://www.reddit.com/r/battlefield_4/comments/1rlm5x/how_skill_is_calculated_solved/ really answers the question, just scroll to the tl;dr part, you'll understand 🙂
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YES ............... and YES because that is a form of cheating
Sir I completly agree with youre comment and dice or ea should do something about it because for the casual gamers this is not an isue i think but for me i play every day and i should be rewarded for it also other players of course because we make this game if you know what i mean with out us theres no btf4 the servers would be empty most of the times anyway
