I read what was suggested here a bit, my thoughts on this:
Originally Posted by
FistofLife
This ranking system that I present hopes to bring Toribash to a new level of competitiveness, it aims to reward skilled players for fighting other skilled players. The current ranking system does not reward skilled players, instead it rewards those who farm worse players than themselves.
I don't really see how the system you proposed change that. Those who farm wins would still get most points, because that's how ELO system works. If all that's wanted is to restrict master belts from fighting white belts, it is easier to keep all official rooms on one server with ranking system on and all private rooms on two others we have with it disabled.
Originally Posted by
Toxic
Maybe an announcement could be made for recruiting coders or something like that? We could all benefit from it, maybe even make it a staff position, there has to be a couple of people out there that know how to code.
Check nabistudios.com, it says that we're always hiring. People who do know how to code usually just let hampa know that and are later given some side work if they don't have enough time to work full time.
Originally Posted by
Eddylee
1. The only way to increase rank is to beat a higher or same rank player
Nah, won't work. What if you have rank 10 and there's nobody around with ranks 1 - 9?
Originally Posted by
Eddylee
2. There is no losing rank points
Once again, can lead to people starting to use bots again as they will some time anyway to get rank points. Especially if mixed with the "prizes for best ranked players" part suggested by FistofLife.
If everything that's wanted is to remove ranking from private servers and make it only work in official rooms (those static colored ones + tournaments), it should be doable. I'm not sure about belt restrictions here because I don't agree with the way it was suggested to implement in the OP, though they're certainly needed. What if there is a 2nd dan who won more games than a custom belt who fought almost the same people? Of course we can add Ultimate rooms back and even invent something new for 6th dans+ or something, but qi doesn't define players' skills and lots of people don't change the way they play after first 1k or 2k games.