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Posted by: SatansReverence
Your opponents win/loss ratio does not directly affect your rank.
The only way it does is by changing their sigma which changes your possible reward.The hell are you talking about?
Posted by: Mmmm Milk
I don't think the ranks of the other players even matter, it's what their win/loss ratio is.Win/loss ratio does nothing at all.
Your a 30 and have lost no games, your playing with a 30 who has also lost no games (both 100% chance of winning), you somehow are versing 2 50s, but their win/loss is 0.1 (10% chance of winning) so the system automatically predicts your going to win, and if you do win, you wont rank up or rank up that much. If you lose, you will probbaly rank down a fair bit.Regardless of the amount of losses, a 50 is a 50. A no-loss 30's mu is much higher than what a locked 30 has, maybe around a locked 40's, but it still isn't as high as a 50's. Thus the 50 team is the one expected to win.
Instead of coming up with a ridiculous explanation for the ranking system; just realize that Halo 3's ranking system is broken. Halo 2 had the right idea. Consistent winning meant leveling up while consistent losing meant leveling down. That is really as simple as it should be. At the basic level, Halo 3's is the same.
The level 50 on Halo 3 now encompasses like 20 levels from Halo 2, namely the skill range from 30-50. There is not a large enough distinction in skill between high ranked players in Halo 3 as there was in Halo 2. Bottom line-- the ranking system needs to be fixed! Level 50's don't contain 40% of the population. The Halo 2 system left no distinction between lower ranked players. Due to that and the influx of new players, the lower ranks were a total mess.
[Edited on 07.12.2010 2:26 PM PDT]