Level and skill number
MoFo
Join Date: 2013-09-09 Member: 188047Members
Join Date: 2013-09-09 Member: 188047Members
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To increase your 'skill' you need to:
a) be on the winning team (so always make sure you stack or your skill will go down); and
b) get a high K:D ratio, so make sure the other team are floor skulks or terribad aimers.
Lerk is the most efficient lifeform to get high 'skill' scores because you can start racking up the kills early in the game. If you can get an early fade out, that works well, too.
I think showing this even on the hive website was a big mistake, having it in game is an even bigger mistake.
There have been some fantastic things coming out of UWE lately for NS2, and I am extremely appreciative for all of that. This, however, is a bad move I'm afraid and it's leading to a lot of rookies getting farmed.
Some server already got a rookie protection rdy
Agreed but why put a system clearly in the alpha stages on the main menu for every one who purchases the game to see?
or you'll have the skilled pub stompers who's skill is 800+ join a team with "less skilled" players with a skill of 450 who all happen to be premier divison players against a team made up of your average pubber with scores of 600. Should be quite a fair game.... =/
No.
Commanders are marked as such and don't seem to get a skill rating for that round.
I fact we can't say how exactly the hive system is working because we have no access to the web code. All things we know are based on the lua part and what we noticed by looking at our own profil page.
I would like to see rank names and patches (fun pictures basically, to go along with the numbers) included also. For example, "Lieutenant," "Major," "Captain," etc.
Or, you could go a more sci-fi route and use terms like, "I Eschelon," "II Eschelon," etc.
Although, come to think of it, I'm not sure how you would incorporate names and patches in a way that accomodates Marines and Aliens.
Anyway, I for one am glad they implemented this. It means they are listening and working on what so many have been asking for recently.
These numbers just make it easier for people to mass stack teams since they have another number that somewhat describes skill alongside K/D.
Omg plz turrets are imba l2p level 1 nooob! xD
only servers without mods or whitelisted servers are shown on hive. so server running NS2Stats who are not whitelisted won't show up on hive
That means if I use matchmaking, I won't get together with ppl with the same skill anyways. And if Im placed in a team, it might as well place me very wrong.
You think they will add even more ingame icons for the matchmaking system? I want to be a Sergeant of the Mastersergeants Most important Person of extreme Sergeants to the MAX!
But as long as it doesn't replace the normal browser and as long as I can play on my favorite servers...I don't really care
Please for the love of Cl0rf keep the skill stats hidden! By all means include the rank publicly as this has no direct bearing on game play.
Any system that can show players that they are getting worse is bad and drives people away or causes them to create situations where a loss is rather unlikely.
SMNC had a visible counter of Wins/Losses/Leaves and Kills/Deaths/Assists in the main menu at one point. It really had a bad psychological effect on players. Eventually they changed it so that it would only show Wins/Leaves and Kills/Assists. Basically just a continuous progress counter that is nice to look at the longer you play, but without actually coining it down to a "how good are you per match" base.
NS2's system encourages stacking teams and leaving the match as soon as you notice that things will likely go down the river (since it doesn't submit any stats for you if you only participated briefly in the match), rewards stomps (more kills = better rating) and punishes those who are getting stomped (they surely had fun getting killed 30 times in a row, so let's shove that down their throat afterwards).
It likely doesn't take the different roles into account either:
Skulks are just way more likely to die than an average marine, since they are cannon fodder and don't scale as well into the lategame as a rifle marine. Xenocide Skulks ruin their K/D ratio.
Umbra Lerks don't get any points for their vital help.
An Onos can help its team a lot just by being a meat (bone) shield and a distraction, for which it is not rewarded by the game.
In general, having deaths as part of the equation seems like a bad choice to me. Dying in this game is not necessarily a bad thing. The punishment is already that you can score less kills and other points. But there are more than enough situations where it is totally worth to die somewhere to achieve something else. And that should not be discouraged. In the same way should you not get punished for your deaths by getting killed a bazillion times by a stacked team that doesn't want to end the game. The formula should just discard deaths, imho.
By rank I meant level, yes that was a typo sorry. That is fine to leave public as it's essentially a meaningless function of time played on participating servers.
I am interested to see how many of my excessive number of deaths have boosted peoples stats!
It's called ns2_stats/Shine
It's in the menu...
I will discuss with devs what to do, but IMO I think people are making a bigger deal about it than there should be.
So, is this based on your Steam ID or just the in game handle?