Global Player Stats - Remove Rank Sort?

Mon Jun 07, 2004 7:40 am by Cryogenius

Folks - as many of you know, my Global Player Stats * lists the top 1,000 players sorted by both Kills and by Rank. I am seriously considering removing the Rank sort as it has become pretty meaningless. Some servers give you lots of cash when you join, others have "admin" characters with high ranks, and some have mods that change the value of items. Therefore it is not fair to compare the ranks of players on one server against those on another. To get on the top 1000 by Rank, you've got to be at least rank 65, and that's after most cheats are crudely filtered out.

I feel that listing the players sorted by their Kills is a much better indicator of how good they actually are, and players with low ranks can do just as well as those with high ranks. By removing the sort by Rank, then the Global Stats will be simpler and more efficient.

Please let me know your thoughts on this...

Cryo.

Cryogenius - Author of FLstat v1.3 and the Global Player Rankings .

Mon Jun 07, 2004 7:59 am by [steel]

only problem with ranking on kills is it doesnt take into account what the kills were ie. gmg eagles or outcast sabres as opposed to liberty rogues bloodhounds
then again no system is perfect

but it is certainly better than rank

Mon Jun 07, 2004 9:32 am by Earendil

Steel is makes a very good point. Also you can rack up kills from killing transports but NOT from killing players. I know PvPers that have tons of kills but not one shows up. (I also realize why they aren't counted as kills, it's too easily abused) Also isn't some of these server with mods? Certainly makes it hard to use any number to determine "the best".

Cryo, do you download playing time? Maybe if you combine the kills with time then maybe "the best" would have a bit more meaning. Just a suggestion.

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Mon Jun 07, 2004 3:11 pm by git

player kills arnt counted at all, because the game dont regester them as kills, check your kills, kill some noob, then check again

and modded servers are in a diff colour, ... hmmm, who`s that guy on top?

lol

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Edited by - git on 6/8/2004 12:10:55 AM

Mon Jun 21, 2004 1:40 am by Captain Chilly Sauce

I agree with the ranking players by kills.

Only a wish if possible..... Having seperate ranking tables for modded and unmodded servers. Along with combined

Also is possible please to have the Clans in different colour like with the modded and un modded players but for clans on modded and modded servers. I see the probs cos some clans are on more that one server.

Tue Jul 06, 2004 8:48 am by Cryogenius

Chaps,

o I have removed all sorting by rank from G.P.R. - only sorting by kills is support.
o Old characters who haven't logged in this year are displayed "grayed out".
o Dead servers are hidden from the server list (click on "show dead servers" to see).
o Down servers now show when they were last seen up.
o New servers are highlighted.
o Some other minor improvements also made.

Let me know what you think...

Cryo.

Cryogenius - Author of FLstat v1.3 and the Global Player Rankings .

Edited by - Cryogenius on 7/7/2004 2:29:49 AM

Edited by - Cryogenius on 7/7/2004 4:20:09 AM

Tue Jul 06, 2004 8:47 pm by shaitanro

Looks great

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