- last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT
Posted by: UselessTrash
Posted by: Jay120171
Posted by: UselessTrash
Posted by: Ozzie234
Posted by: Legendary Blue
You didn't even read it all?
The system works the way it is supposed to.
Yes the system works the way it's supposed to, but the players aren't.
With all these 2nd accounts flooding in, the system assumes every average player to be completely awful at this game, and subsequently robs him of all his Sigma in NO-TIME.
Also these 2nd accounts regularly beat the 1st accounts (with a higher rank including a more mediocre game history) at most levels with the result of "rank locks" just about everywhere.
To even have a chance to rank up at any higher levels of Halo3, you have to get real (and I mean REAL) skillful at the game before you even start out matchmaking.
That's a FLAWED system.
^^^ That's the only explanation you'll ever need. This is the state of things. The unpolished truth.
Not necessarily. The system factors sigma and MU updates based on the sigma or your competition. So, a 2nd account with a high sigma doesn't hurt as much as an established account with a low sigma when you lose. Psychologically it sucks for the player to lose badly to a 2nd account, but the reality is the system can tell who is new and who isn't and uses the info accordingly.
So the system can detect a lvl 50 playing a lvl 10 account? Wow, US military should use this code in their defense systems. /irony off
Add to that the fact almost every 2nd account can on a regular basis beat most older accounts of lvls 30-35, and vice versa, making almost all levels of MM a stale mess.
You just need to realize what the true state of this rank system is dude.
Jay is the last person to ever defend the system...everyone agrees its not perfect. He is just pointing out the mechanics. New accounts still cause unduly lowered sigma's for regular accounts, but the effects simply aren't the same as if they lost to a regular account.