Ranking system vs. Solo/Custom

[Tjeerd]

Guys,

Some say that solo doesn't count for the ranking, some say it does.

Some say custom doesn't count for the ranking, some say it does.

At the moment I'm about to start my first game after a week of working. Trying to get some EE's and level up. Need some advice for witch mode to start.

For now I'll be playing by my self.

Thanks

[Tjeerd]

Ok, just finished a short round of zombie's in solo.

Rank changed so that seems to work.

Solo into town for now, out.

[way2g00d]

Avoid unnecessary downs. All modes count. Its mostly down to your Kills to downs ratio. Your ranking is Direct proportional to amount of kills and inversely proportional to downs. of course other things like Rounds, Head shots and Revives are also directly proportional. Completing EE doesn't help you rank at all. I have friends that didn't do it and are on shotguns simply because they have a 180+ KD with least downs. However I've seen people that 100+ KD with shotguns. Hope this helps.

[Edward Richtofen]

Avoid unnecessary downs. All modes count. Its mostly down to your Kills to downs ratio. Your ranking is Direct proportional to amount of kills and inversely proportional to downs. of course other things like Rounds, Head shots and Revives are also directly proportional. Completing EE doesn't help you rank at all. I have friends that didn't do it and are on shotguns simply because they have a 180+ KD with least downs. However I've seen people that 100+ KD with shotguns. Hope this helps.

If so, this is terribly unfair to Grief players.

[way2g00d]

Avoid unnecessary downs. All modes count. Its mostly down to your Kills to downs ratio. Your ranking is Direct proportional to amount of kills and inversely proportional to downs. of course other things like Rounds, Head shots and Revives are also directly proportional. Completing EE doesn't help you rank at all. I have friends that didn't do it and are on shotguns simply because they have a 180+ KD with least downs. However I've seen people that 100+ KD with shotguns. Hope this helps.

If so, this is terribly unfair to Grief players.

I agree. I stopped doing No Perk challenges because I already went over 1100 downs Grief mode still not so bad. I think Win/Loss in grief also adds up to the rank. I know there is a complicated formula for this ranking system. We know the variables.

[Thee Crater]

While the Kills/Death ratio theory seems likely, you all have seem to have forgotten the the rank goes down after you don't play for a while. How could this be possible if it is based on K/D?

[Edward Richtofen]

I agree. I stopped doing No Perk challenges because I already went over 1100 downs Grief mode still not so bad. I think Win/Loss in grief also adds up to the rank. I know there is a complicated formula for this ranking system. We know the variables.

A complicated formula I am confident we will never find without help from the devs. There are far too many combinations and stat multipliers which would achieve logical ranking systems to check manually.

Couple that with the fact that we know that activity affects tallies and eye color, adds a new level of depth. (For instance if you need 5 tallies & blue eyes to move up base emblem).

Also any testing that happens will be far easier to do on accounts with no time played, so as the people trying to figure this system out get large amounts of kills/downs/revives it becomes much harder for them to skew their stats to test different theories.

[slappamedoo]

Can confirm solo affects rank ups. Never tried with custom matches.

[Tjeerd]

I don't get it...

Yesterday I started with a few rounds Tranzit. Two players, shitty rounds.

After that we I played Survival at Town till like 4am with a 'better' friend.

Still we didn't get past round 20, but for the first night we played well.

I wrote down my 'overall kill' rank down before I started and checked it just now.

I went from rank 846.457 to 511.726, a difference of 334.731 places.

But still no skull...

[weston_19]

Take your total kills and divide by your downs. This will give you a k:d ratio, a good indicator where in rank you should be. For example, i have 17959 kills and 242 downs. Divide this out i have a 74 kd ratio, my rank is a skull. As stated earlier other stats modify this but kd seems to be weighted pretty heavy. Leaderboard rank could also play a factor, just aim for steady 200 kill one down games. I played since day one, hence the atrocious downs. Ive been on the skull for what seems like forever, my k:d climbs by 3 or 4 every game. Solo tranzit is a blast, i just keep in mind kd and play things safer.

[way2g00d]

I like where you guys are going with these theories, but in light of several repeated topics being created every day just on this subject, I am going to ask you guys to reply on this thread ONLY listed below.

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