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Subject: In depth explanation of the Halo 3 skill ranking system.
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no man thats not that bad me and my friend win 10 games of team slayer in a row and he is a level one im a 40 he only goes up to a 4

  • 03.29.2009 4:37 PM PDT
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the worst thing to ever hapen to me was winning a game of doubles by myself and i rank down!!!!!!! i mean WTF!!! i win at a disadvantage and go positive and they rank me down!!!

  • 03.29.2009 4:40 PM PDT

Thank you... I was figuring loosing my exp. was due to loosing my connection and now I understand better and will look at my hardware more seriously to keep from getting knocked off. Now I know. I don't like doing that to other players as I figured it hurt their ratios and exp. also. I apologize to those I have been knocked off from... and then hope I can keep it from happening again. I am on it to have fun and fun it is.... plus meeting people from around the world is pretty awesome.

  • 03.30.2009 9:18 AM PDT
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Anyone who reallly thinks they know the real ranking system look at my accnt.... Me and my friend both made new one mnth accnts last nite and this is what happened... We won 30 straight games and didnt lose ANY!? Soo im 30-0 right now and only a level 5?!?!!?!!!!! I just dont get it, it usually takes two maybe three wins to get past lvl 5 but wtffff!?! The halo 3 ranking system is the worst of the three... Halo 2 was soo much more simple n discrete... Can anyone try n explain this to me??? This is rediculous im playin lvl 20s and still not goin up...

  • 03.30.2009 11:43 AM PDT

Posted by: RIPLAYNE STALEY
Anyone who reallly thinks they know the real ranking system look at my accnt.... Me and my friend both made new one mnth accnts last nite and this is what happened... We won 30 straight games and didnt lose ANY!? Soo im 30-0 right now and only a level 5?!?!!?!!!!! I just dont get it, it usually takes two maybe three wins to get past lvl 5 but wtffff!?! The halo 3 ranking system is the worst of the three... Halo 2 was soo much more simple n discrete... Can anyone try n explain this to me??? This is rediculous im playin lvl 20s and still not goin up...
It's actually been explained in this thread a ton and on almost every page. Playing all your games with the same teammates, which it looks like you've done for all except the last few, will cause you to level very slowly. You need to split up and each play about 5 or so games with randoms or other teammates and then join back up. It is a limitation of the system where it cannot gauge your performance when always playing in a playlist with the same teammates.

  • 03.30.2009 11:53 AM PDT
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Alrighty man ill give it a try tonight and see if your right, ill post back on this thread and let ya know, thanks for the advice!

  • 03.30.2009 12:42 PM PDT
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Why is this guy deleted? that was a sick explanation.

  • 03.31.2009 5:28 PM PDT

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-blam!- the ranking system it wont give me my 50 and i win 20 games str8 and dont go up

  • 04.02.2009 4:21 PM PDT
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I can't believe I have never read this thread before! Well done!

  • 04.05.2009 2:16 PM PDT
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UMMM Bungie... ITS CALLED TEAM SLAYER!!!! why in our right minds would we ever want to play "TEAM" slayer with a bunch of mismatches. Lone wolves is there for you play by yourself. NOW COME ON, let me play team slayer with a TEAM.

I am sooo disgruntled at this.

  • 04.06.2009 2:41 PM PDT
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People keep trying to tell me that if someone quits a match, you don't go up or down in skill afterwords - but it continues to happen both ways. It's pretty sickening to have one person quit before a match, another quit midway through, get stomped on 4-on-2 and then lose skill because a couple of losers wanted to rub one out instead of finish the game they started.

  • 04.06.2009 9:34 PM PDT
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Posted by: AnthonyStJames
People keep trying to tell me that if someone quits a match, you don't go up or down in skill afterwords - but it continues to happen both ways. It's pretty sickening to have one person quit before a match, another quit midway through, get stomped on 4-on-2 and then lose skill because a couple of losers wanted to rub one out instead of finish the game they started.


True Skill made some small adjustments that now reduce the amount of skill you lose if teammates quit out. Its not a perfect solution, but the only thing they can do without allowing people to game the system.

  • 04.07.2009 9:58 AM PDT
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  • 04.10.2009 7:26 PM PDT

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Thanx for the info

  • 04.11.2009 6:07 AM PDT
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I can haz reconz

lol

  • 04.11.2009 6:32 AM PDT

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I heard a rumor thrown around that if the other team quits out, it doesn't count as a win. Is this true?

Also, what happens when a game is split?

I.E, in Doubles, three people see one guy quit out.

This guy didn't actually quit. Instead, he sees all three other people quit out instead. Is that a win or loss, or does it depend on the results of the other 3 people?

  • 04.11.2009 6:04 PM PDT

Nice work,

I'm not sure if you've answered this already, but does the placing you get in lone wolves (1st,2nd,3rd) affect anything such as the Mu?

Lets say you have no games played ( a "clean slate") in LW's
and then get 1st place 25 games in a row, meanwhile
another player gets a mix of 1st-3rd (all "wins"),

Are they the same rank, and if not, why?
Thanks, and very nice thread

  • 04.11.2009 6:16 PM PDT
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Posted by: Birdmayne mmmmm
Why is this guy deleted? that was a sick explanation.

Accounts delete themselves after a year of inactivity.

Great read, though.

  • 04.11.2009 6:18 PM PDT
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i thought kd matterd but anyway good post thats givon me an insight to the ranking system.

  • 04.11.2009 10:52 PM PDT

It sounds solid enough but you kind of have to question the systems integritry when you have a game like I just did, where (in oddball) I win with 100 points with a k/d spread of +8 and 2 double kills, but DIDN'T go up. When 2nd place only had 31 points and a k/d spread of -7 and DID go up. I mean I was better than him accross the board except that he had one headshot medal, but that can't mean much, because AI've had games with 6 headshot medals and didn't go up as well. It would be one thing if every one else was lower than me in skill, but I was the lowest in the game. in fact I was 5 below second place.

  • 04.11.2009 11:20 PM PDT
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ok i dont realy get how people lvl faster whit boosting than.

couse as i read this it would say that they would
rank up less fast than normal.

can someone explain it to me? :S

  • 04.12.2009 5:21 AM PDT

Bungie did a coding error in reach. It is called the 'Spring Jump'.

Posted by: Blackhawkshadow
It sounds solid enough but you kind of have to question the systems integritry when you have a game like I just did, where (in oddball) I win with 100 points with a k/d spread of +8 and 2 double kills, but DIDN'T go up. When 2nd place only had 31 points and a k/d spread of -7 and DID go up. I mean I was better than him accross the board except that he had one headshot medal, but that can't mean much, because AI've had games with 6 headshot medals and didn't go up as well. It would be one thing if every one else was lower than me in skill, but I was the lowest in the game. in fact I was 5 below second place.


he stated in the post preformence in game means NOTHING. Its only wins and losses mate.

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  • 04.13.2009 8:26 AM PDT
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Posted by: endoFLAWLESS
no skill needed for rank....boosters proved that

I agree, its just a shame that everybody in the Halo universe can clearly see this but Bungie with the brains that they suposedly have cannot detect this......though it may not be "cheating" par say but this is a GAME, something to be enjoyed by everyone. Because of the boosters it can and probably has ruined the game for many people becuz of an idiotic dependance on achiveing a rank that has absolutly no relevence to real life what so ever

  • 04.13.2009 8:39 AM PDT

is there anyway of finding out my sigma?

  • 04.13.2009 2:24 PM PDT
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Posted by: CONORMAG94
is there anyway of finding out my sigma?


No. But if you have lost a lot, assume it is basically close to 0.

  • 04.14.2009 3:12 PM PDT