difference between ur ranking n ladder pos.

[TIGER9]

what exactly is the difference between my ranking and my ladder position? i have a rank of around 1295ish and a ladder position around 30,000ish (HEY, back off i dont get to play all day, everyday) so no wise cracks about how much i suck alright!

[DaKilla]

From my understanding, one is your raw score, while the other is a scale of you compared to the other members. Your raw score go be anything, but you're 'ranking' can be only between 1 and the max number of users.

I'm not really sure which one is which, as I don't pay attention to rank at all anymore (somehow still a captain).

[Angus]

i was wonfering the same thing

[*:MosT HaTeD:*]

yea ur rank could be goin down because of those rank up bi*ches but watever.............


hey AK105er cool sig man im feelin that

[?Newb?]

I belive that the difference is that one number is bigger than the other. lol

[yabber]

I pulled this from one of my posts in another thread:
(http://www.socom-2.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=4720)

Think of your rating as your score, and your ranking as your ladder position.

Your rating/score will go up and down depending on how you play. I preach that you should ignore your ladder position and focus on improving your score (rating). There is a great article about how scores are calculated

http://www.playstationmagazine.com/a...1488773,00.asp

Then there is your ladder position (ranking). Evey 10 minutes or so, the servers take every player (over 100,000) and sort them in order of their score (rating). The person with the highest score in the entire game univers is given the number 1. Everyone after him/her is 2, 3, 4, etc. If I am ranked at 32,000 it means (in theory) there are 29,999 people better then me (who have a higher score/rating then I do).

Because the ladder ranking is a calculation of EVERY single account/player it could change several 1000s even when your not signed on and playing. You may not play for a week. But if the people that do tend to suck... there score will go down, and if they drop below your score you will jump.

I hope that makes sence, please anyone let me know if that's not clear.

Ladder ranking - your position in the universe - lowest number is best, your always aiming to be number 1.
Rating - your personal score - get that puppy as high as possible, the higher number the better.

Oh, and once they sort the players (using the ladder) they divy up the ranks (ensign, etc.).

My reccomendation is to watch your score untill your over 1000, or a double bar at least. Then worry about the ladder.

[TIGER9]

right on, i really dont care about my ladder pos. or rating(sorry, i said ranking in my first post) the only thing i really care about is my kill to death ratio. i cant remember what it was but i know i have at least 100 more kills than deaths. thanx for the help all