And another suggestion on ranking..

[ultima301]

..But I think this one is different and perhaps the fairest of all..my system of Rank Points.
Here's how it works:
Okay, every song will have a "rank difficulty" (it will be named RD in the below formula) of one to 15..one being insanely easy like mario and 15 being insanely difficult.
Two more variables is your score for the song (variable will be YS), and the max possible score (calculated by max possible combo * 1550)..variable will be named MS. The last variable, called ER, "extra ranking" is calculated only if your overall rank for a song is below 500..then the formula ( 500 - rank) is used. Okay..now here is the formula:

Rank points (for any given song) = (100 * RD) * ( YS / MS) + ER

Here are some examples:
RD = 7 score % = 80 rank for this song = 380 :
(100 * 7) * ( .80) + ( 500 - 380) = 680 rank points
now let's compare that to someone who got a much lower score on the same song..a score % of 70 and got rank 600..so no extra points:
(100 * 7) * (.70) + ( 0) = 490 rank points

Now your highest amount of rank points for each song will be totalled and the user with the highest score will be the highest rank.

[alainbryden]

I'd love to see synths server compile that for all 200 000 members for 75+ songs in less than a day.

[ultima301]

Good point, but that is why the ranking database will be updated like only once every week or so..if it was done every day it would only create tons of lag most likely.

[lightdarkness]

interesting...

[ultima301]

Does anyone else like this idea? Some more input would be nice...

[User6773]

Requires setting an accurate difficulty rating for every song, and as we all know that takes a LOT of effort.

[ultima301]

Unless that was sarcasm that is not difficult..in the beginning just set the difficulty equal to the current scale the game uses..with the ((( symbols or whatever they are..it would not be that difficult to change, just switching around one variable. And if the most FFR'ers think the rating is unfair Synth could just raise/lower it, no big deal.

[qualy]

bump

[User6773]

Bumping a topic 2 weeks old?

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The fairest way, IMHO, would be just to add "Your best rank" on every song, and the lowest sum gets rank #1.

People complain that this requires you to have played every song in the game, otherwise your rank is shot. But Ultima's requires it to, and plus there are only about 80 songs, and if you haven't played the whole game, you frankly don't deserve to have a high rank.

[EmperorSteele]

... math is hard.

And stressful on servers.

Look, the current ranking system IS bugged, but i'm pretty sure Synth has said before it's not meant to be perfect. It's more of a general idea. I mean, obviously, all the people in the top 10/50/100 whatever ARE really good players. I mean, a decent player isn't going to break into the top just by playing shitloads of songs, becasue that's what the really good people are ALSO doing, so ranks stay relativly consistant. The only way to increase ones rank is to play songs of difficult or above and get really good scores. And we don't have to worry about n00bs doing that.

And if someone thinks they should be #1, they can go and challenge the top 15 or so players and see how they do, then brag about it in thier siggy if they win.

just a thought =/