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 Post subject: Rank Reduction!!??
PostPosted: Tue Nov 02, 2004 9:31 am 
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Has this happened to anyone else yet?

Up until this morning I was ranked a General with 1625 points. Now the system has reduced my rank to Major but my points total is the same at 1625.

I have tried restoring my profile but each time its says I'm now a Major with 1625 points.


Has the ranking system changed??


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PostPosted: Tue Nov 02, 2004 10:23 am 
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Yeah, I got bumped back down to general, and my mentor account got bumped down to colonel. The website still lists me as a marshal though. So what's going on guys?

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PostPosted: Tue Nov 02, 2004 10:31 am 
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Same with me. Went from General to Colonel.

Points stayed same, but interestingly my position jumped 40 places up (from about 130 to 90).

Site lists them right tho...


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PostPosted: Tue Nov 02, 2004 11:10 am 
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only the top x% (eg 5 not sure exactly) are marshals, next x% are gernals etc, so if people move past u in score it can put them into that % bracket and push you down to the next one.

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PostPosted: Tue Nov 02, 2004 11:18 am 
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But why would that drop a General to Major?

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PostPosted: Tue Nov 02, 2004 11:55 am 
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It could be they removed a lot of inactive players from the database or something... If they reduced the total number of players by a lot, the number of people that are Marshalls, etc will be a lot less.

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Maelstrom wrote:
It could be they removed a lot of inactive players from the database or something...

That would be nice...less to d/l when refreshing the opponents' list. However, Marshal is the only rank (afaik) that's %-based, so purging inactives wouldn't affect Generals.

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As I recall, all ranks over Leutenant were %based. Something like top 1% Marshall, 10% General, etc.

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Here it is:
http://massiveassault.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=327

Look down at VaNO's description. Sergeant and all ranks above have a % component.

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Heh, just spent the last 5 minutes looking for that thread.

Yeah...I guess everything really does have a % component. I think what threw me was that Marshal is the only one where the % is a lower limit instead of an upper limit :oops:


Edit: As an addendum, I just finished a game against ChrisCraven, and it still gave me the 40 points as though he was still a Marshal, even though he's labelled General now.

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