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Old 02-19-2004   #11
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OK, Ive had it. I just went 16 - 3 against all cookies and 2 wigns and my rank dropped from 77,000 to 116,000!!!! You've got to be kidding me.
I hate the ranking system and I dont know what else to do.....
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Old 02-19-2004   #12
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OK, Ive had it. I just went 16 - 3 against all cookies and 2 wigns and my rank dropped from 77,000 to 116,000!!!! You've got to be kidding me.
I hate the ranking system and I dont know what else to do.....
The last thing you need to do is have an ulcer over their wacked (and obviously flawed) ranking system...

I mean, who needs a chess-based ranking system when we are playing a war game??!!??

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The servers were *$#%ed up last night again. Thats propobly why you rank dropped.
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The best thing I can say is make a new guy and tear it up with him. You can go into any room and kick butt. Once you start to get burned out (usually after 3 or 4 hours) swith to another name. Keep one name ready for when you feel sharp and another name for when your just messin around or drinkin. When I play with my friends I use a different name so we can just have fun. When I am working on rank I use my main name.
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SCUBA<=>STEVE]Many people think pistols only rooms will get your rank higher. This is wrong because everyone is using a pistol. I also think the ranking system is screwed and I don't really care. Back in Socom 1, everyone had fun (besides cheaters or glitchers) and wasn't woried about their rank. I wish they take it out. I always think of it as your stats are what count, not the symbol next to your name.
^^URGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH i need someone to sticky this or sumthin!!!!!!! ok pistols only room DOES rank you up..... most pistols are about 1 shot kill or the accuracy is REALLY good... when ur accuracy rating goes up, guess what??? your ranking goes up too!!!!
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pistol only games DO make ur rank go up.

they are not like machine guns and do not fire 100+ rounds in 20 seconds

when ur in a fire fight with someone with pistols. you usually dont shoot more than 15 rounds. therefore your rank goes up. just as 7seals said
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^^URGH i need someone to sticky this or sumthin!!!!!!!
Permission granted, Mr. 7SEALS...

I thought it was a good enough topic to warrant it... as you'll see, I also edited the topic to make it fit better as a sticky.

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I stay at 80,000 to 111000. Here's how ZIpper Inc explains the ranking system, hopefully it will help:

The SOCOM II Ranking system is based on the Chess Ranking system developed by Dr. Arpad Elo. However, it is much more complex in order to take into consideration the SOCOM II game format which has multiple players per team, multiple rounds, and individual performance differences. Your Score (as seen when you select a player from the Player Ranking Screen) is the master value that tracks your relative ability vs. other players.

The SOCOM II Ladder is just an indexing of every player's Score (I.e. the player with the highest score will be #1, the second highest #2, etc). Your position on this ladder determines your ranking as indicated below:

ADMIRAL = Top 10 Players
CAPTAIN = The Next 5% of Players
LT. COMMANDER = The Next 25% of Players
LIEUTENANT = The Next 55% of Players
ENSIGN = The Remaining 15% of Players

The first time you play SOCOM II online you start with 1000 points. If the highest ranked Ensign does not have 1,000 points, you would be ranked as a Lieutenant before you even played a Round. Even though you have yet to accumulate any statistics, you would have a better ranking than many players that have been playing SOCOM II online because they may have lost games and died a lot while you have not.


re will go up and if you lose a Game your score will Relative Strength of the Teams: The Scores of members of your team are compared against the Scores of the opponent's team to determine who is 'expected' to win. Winning against stronger teams will increase your Score faster while winning against weaker teams will increase your Score much slower.

Number of Players in the Game: Full 16-player Games have larger Score moves than say an 8-player Game.

Number of Rounds won by losing team: If you win by a sweep (I.e. winning the first 6 Rounds in a best of 11 Game), your Score will go up more than if you just won by one Round (I.e. winning 6 Rounds and losing 5 Rounds in a best of 11 Game).

Individual Performance: Doing more to contribute to the victory like getting more Kills, having less Deaths, rescuing Hostages, creating Breaches, destroying Bases, etc. will result in a larger personal Score increase.

One last thing to take into account, courtesy of producer Seth Luisi: "It is important to note that the "score" on the player stats and the "score" at the end of the game are not directly related. The score on the Player Stats screen is actually a "Rating" and not the score. This rating is affected by your score at the end of the game plus other factors including the ratings of the people you were playing against. This seems to be the biggest point of confusion with the SOCOM II Player rankings
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you dont actually get any lower than 50-60k gradually...you have to do a jump...

What I mean is.. once you get to the 50-60k range...you gotta have a really good game to get it down to about 30k..

On my real name I was like 65k....went 21-7 in blizzard with 2 defusals and 1 plant.... and hopped down to like 22k...

On my clan name (just got to captn. tonite yippee) I was like 58k then I just went 16-3 in Frostfire and hopped down to 35k...

So if you wanna get to Capn....jus stay in the 50-60k range...and play a map that your good at....if you have a hella good game youll be all set..
K- I was 56k before this game:

22-3 Abaondoned 3 of us cookies v 4 captains (clan war type thing goin on)

Got out, checked rank.

120k

Is it just me, or is taht completely f'n wrong?
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