I just played an entire match short 1 player on my team, and we still won! It was hard fought for sure. One more shift of morale and we were toast. I get that in this case a loss for us would be half as much rank loss, but come on, a win should be TWICE the gain, if anything. Certainly not worth LESS rank increase! I feel like this rank system is incredibly primitive. Is there anything nuanced about it beyond simply, "win = good, lose = bad?"
It's pretty terrible. I regularly get about 10-15 ranking points per win, but 70-120 per loss. As a result, even with a roughly 90% win rate, I am barely moving through ONE ranking bracket.
I lost a 4v5, BARELY, and still got hammered for -72 points.
I have no idea who set this ranking system up, but it is clearly failing badly. The skill levels of players being matched together are wildly disparate.
The ranking system is pretty pointless. I found myself playing more fleet battles now since the Dogfight matchmaking is not nearly as frequent as before. Anyway, having a ranked system in which you are teaming up with randoms doesn't really hold value. This would make more sense if it is a clan vs clan mode. I find myself going up, then going down, then going up again, in rank, so it's a good thing I just play for the competitive fun otherwise it would be torture moving up in rank.
I agree. The rank increase is miserable compared to a loss. It's like you have to win 4 to 5 times to equal 1 loss. Even if you non-deliberately get disconnected, your rank will be hammered badly for like 15%. The way I see it, if you're really at the rank you're supposed to, your win/loss rate should average out to 50-50. Makes sense right? But if you win 5 matches in a row, you're clearly better than your rank suggests.
So technically, a correct way to manage a ranking system is a loss equals a win. So only if you win 2 out of 3 matches, then you deserve a rank increase.
I really dont understand, you can only climb if you never lose. i get 3% per win. and most of the time im 4v5. but i get like 10% and more per lost even if some of my teamate leave.... like wtf?
I agree that if you have a 50% ratio in a rank mean you should be in that rank. not being drag down... first i dont know how team are being balanced. But i was hoping to rank higher to have more interesting game. But with a ranking system like this everyone is drag down really easily.
man i had like 9 win in placement( after reset) and now i struggle to win cause of leaver and bad player on my team that keep dying and not play as a team. its like. My only option to rank up is to play 5 premade.... and i suppose its gonna be easy cause i probably gonna end up against 5 random people.
Had a game today were our four player group (including one on their first fleet battle) forfeited a match after a player quit. I lost 10% ranking against a really strong team that we would have struggled to beat even if we had a 5th player. I can't believe this is half the loss we would have incurred. They really need to publish how the rating system works to make it more transparent
I just played 5 games. I won 4, and lost the last one. Well, I got 1% or rank increase in every one of the 4 wins, and 24% of rank loss in the final one.
Somebody explain this to me, please.
The rank gain is dependent on your performance in the game, your score will increase the amount of rank you get. You could try to reset your rank and then play your 10 games again and see if you get placed in a higher tier. Once you get the tier you want keep it until the end of the operation to get your glory.
MercenaryHG
I concur. There is basically no point in trying to rank up right now. If you get 3-4% for a win and 10% for a loss, even with an 80% winrate you're getting a netchange of +2% over 5 games. That's god awful and basically means you will never graduate beyond what you placed into by the end of the season.
I don't know how a game can launch with so many bugs and this many design issues. First most of us couldn't even gain rank, and now that we can it's virtually impossible to actually climb. My friends and I have about a 70% winrate with 1.6 KDAs and we're all stuck in hotshot.
This wouldn't be as much of an issue if they had an unranked fleet battles mode, but given that this is the only option for this mode it's incredibly demoralizing to be hit in the face with a whopping 3% at the end of a game where you were giving it your all, only to have all of your hard work invalidated if you lose a match ever.
Been tracking my rank points over the last 24 games (see image).
I'm currently a Hero 1 and will need to play 363 more matches to make it to Valiant at this rate.
This is with a win ratio of 73.8% over the period with average gains (n = 19) of 9.61 points and average losses (n = 5) of 22.2 points...
