Skill Discussions

Chribba, if you would seriously consider to rework Eveboard a bit, then it could be a good idea to create global ranks across professions (we could take the dozen from the Eveonline page, and would only need to identify which skill groups need to be included in which profession), races (what I personally would not find that thrilling, since races don't mean anything anymore in game) or "age groups" (new pilots up to 1 year, 1 to 5 year olds, 6 to 10 year olds, 10 years and above, or something like that). Of course everything with my proposed pilot age relativisation.

There could even still be total global rank, constructed from the average of a pilot across all special ranks where he is listed.

Will look into that and ponder upping it to 10

It's the other way around, actually.

Abandon could increase his ranking, when he would decide to work to balanced skill groups. That would probably take some months or even years, but he could. A young pilot never could remedy his young age and has not even a theoretical chance to reach the Top1000 with the present system.

Right now, simply being an old pilot who has not forgotten to switch skills is rewarded. No achievement here. So the ranking at it is right now does not reflect achievements, but simply the fact that one has been around. We are talking pilots which work for a balanced skill set here, specialised pilots are at a disadvantage, since they have bad standings in neglected skill groups which effect the global ranking much more then excellent standings in some other skill groups. Eveboard is and will probably always be a ranking platform which rewards balanced pilots and disadvantages specialized pilots - what would justify the introduction of rankings for specialized pilots.

You are right, Amateratsu, But that would only put like 100 pilots into disadvantage. A pilot just 2 days younger then Abandon would already rank at a place of 100 or so in that ranking group "Date of Birth" and with the theoretical 35 score for place 1 everywhere achieve a new score of 0.35 or so, what would put him probably at the top of the list.

There is probably no perfect solution for this, but I rather put a hundred pilots into disadvantage (which won't care that much about things like this, being old and grizzled and such...) then tens of thousands of young and eager people who are on disadvantage right now.

Class of YC110 and so on would be nice.

May as well bring back my old suggestion for a hall of fame for each bloodline while we are at it.

As it is now, only right now its always the old pilots which will be on top.

Maybe we could just add a second global ranking according to my proposal? Keep the existing one for the old pilots, and offer the new one for the younger pilots.

The global ranks atm update once per day, during the night (around 01:30 GMT)

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If a character is left untouched, it's only updated on average every other day... so yeah if a character is updated just after a rank change it would take 24 hours until next generation, and if not touched it could take some days before a change occurs.

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Good question really. Problem (I think) with certs is that you can also chose to not claim some so one could "play" the certs there - unless sisi also includes that you auto-get them if met the reqs?

I wonder if Mastery levels will be accessible through the API, if so then you could have a rank based on Masteries as well.