Long post about GAC ranking trends
I originally sent this to in-game support marked as "feedback" because I genuinely just want to share my findings/suggestion with the devs. The support staff suggested I post it here as well. -------...
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There is without a doubt another layer that was used to sort all players that did not join/participate in that final 'old' GAC season. I just personally never had the time to delve into that. I posted my speculation about that on a discord server "GAC Science" back then when everyone was scrambling to figure out the rating formula.
All I can tell you is that I tracked allies that I knew had quit the game. I saw that they were still added to the new GAC divisions, and assigned skill ratings, but I couldn't intuitively deduce how they were ranked being unable to see those around them. We could make some assumptions that it may be lifetime banner count. Who knows. But yes, you're correct, there must have been a sort for them as well.
All of them eventually got assigned ratings, but they never logged back on so they don't get matched with anyone.. so they'll never meaningfully effect anyone elses ranking. ?♂️
All I can tell you is that I tracked allies that I knew had quit the game. I saw that they were still added to the new GAC divisions, and assigned skill ratings, but I couldn't intuitively deduce how they were ranked being unable to see those around them. We could make some assumptions that it may be lifetime banner count. Who knows. But yes, you're correct, there must have been a sort for them as well.
All of them eventually got assigned ratings, but they never logged back on so they don't get matched with anyone.. so they'll never meaningfully effect anyone elses ranking. ?♂️
