Skill Discussions

Maybe your new rank is -

Ranks should now be back - however I had to reset everyone so you might be moving around a bit. Not sure what happened but seems about 8,000 pilots lost their ranks, my guess is that this was due to a locked table at the time of a rank generation.

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Currently ties are sorted by global rank, If you sort them by order of achievement, you will limit how far players can climb the ranks.

Take Subsystems for example where there are currently 923 players who have completed that category, which means anyone completing the category now will get a rank of 924 which will add 26.4 points to their global score limiting how high they can climb the global ranks.

the result will be 1000,s of veteran players sitting stagnant at the top of the ranks and unable to progress any further.

at that point EB will be nothing more than a list of members with 0 movement or progression.

Point well taken, but I think the difference in rank between methodologies would be minimal. Subsystem player #923, for example, with an overall rank of 32,000 is four-plus years and 100 million skillpoints away from cutting his rank in that skill category in half to #461, a position currently held by a 150 mm skillpoint player with a rank of 3,200.


We kinda have this already, which is probably the bigger problem. Most skill categories are heavily populated with characters that have maxed out the category. Perhaps we need more, advanced skills with heavier prerequisites and longer training times and/or a sixth level to spread out the pack and give people room to grow.

I'm all for as much competition as possible, but unfortunately the skill system inherently favors older characters and there's no easy way around that. Some good discussion on that recently. I like the idea of having separate boards for several age classes: 0 to 1 year, 1 to 3 year, 3 to 6 year, 6 or more year, or something to that effect.

@rank discussion it's tricky to find a good way of sorting indeed when ppl are maxed out so we might need to try and find another type of sorting. also I do not keep track of "who reached something first" as that one is a bit hard to keep track of exactly when people could get there before someone else but the 2nd person happen to get updated before the first.


Should be sorted now, if it is not get back to me with the character name.

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Hello,

about having a different sorting, what about having the possibility to see our ranking compared with players of +/- 1 year of creation? It is interesting to see how we are compared to all the other players, but it would be more meaningful if we could compare ourselves with players of the same time period.
So, I propose to put another tab that aside of ranks you could have ranks of similar players in this new screen. This would be interesting to old players and new players alike.

Yes doing a rank for each year has been suggested quite a few times. I hope it will happen, I wonder how I will do in class of 2006? Probably ranked at the bottom behind all the Achuras.

Yeah CCP has removed it, and as far as I've seen there's no Mastery thing displayed in the API yet (I haven't gotten around to remove the empty categories yet).

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Totally forgot about them, adding to the todo, thank you!

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Hey Chribba, did you trip over the server powercord?