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- Exalted Mythic Member
Posted by: Joric Deture
Posted by: JBSpudster
Posted by: Pink Menace
I would imagine the posts per day only affects your chances of gaining rank in the "Fabled" prefix line, not the whole Mythic/Legendary/Heroic base. I think most of that is based off daily activity, seniority, and recent ban history.
For the most part, I think you are correct. Although, currently there are a couple members on here who have joined a few days after I did who are Mythic. I would bet that if my post count was a bit higher, I too would be Mythic. So I think that a member's post count is definitely a factor, but not as big of a factor as a member's join date for the base titles.
I don't know about that. Take me for example: I just achieved three years on the website. I don't post that often in the forums, though I log onto the site daily, more often than I should. Currently I'm an exalted heroic member. Clearly the theory regarding exalted and at least 3 years membership is true. However I don't think base titles are specifically oriented towards join dates cause if that was the case, it would make sense that I should be a legendary member.
What you are saying actually supports my claim though; that posting is a large factor in determining one's title, but one's join date is a larger factor.
Your prefix reflects the age of your account, and the fact that you've been playing nice, and your base title reflects your recent activity. Logging on Bungie.net frequently may have an additional effect on one's title, but my general observations show that basically your join date limits how high one's title can be, and having consistent posting habit is the best way to ensure that one's title is at its maximum potential. You joined relatively long ago, but you are quite inactive, thus your base title is relatively low.
Here's my post, on page 132 of this thread, explaining my theory as to how the base titles work.
Posted by: JBSpudster
As for Base Titles, well they're a lot trickier than what most people think they are, and coming up with deciding factors based on observations is very difficult. However, from what I've seen, an individual's Base Title is largely dependant upon 3 factors; Join Date, Posting Activity & Immediate Peers (Ordered by influence from most to least).
A member's Join Date seems to be the largest factor in determining their Base Title, not Posting Activity. The reason for this is that I have observed, on many occasions, very long term members who have only posted a few times anywhere on Bungie.net jumping straight to an elevated title within a day, while there are plenty of very new members who post in the double digits every day and don't have any sort of elevated title. If Posting Activity was the larger factor, then practically every member on the public forums would have an elevated title, since the public forums are basically a display of the currently active members.
The way I see the Base Title System functioning, based off of observations, is that each member has two trust values; a maximum trust value and a true trust value. I believe that a member's Join Date is the deciding factor of their maximum trust value, and with each day that passes that maximum trust value increases by X incremental amount. So, as an example, a 3 year member would have a much larger maximum trust value than say a 1 year member.
Now this is not to be confused with a member's true trust value. I believe that a member's true trust value is derived from their Posting Activity and other speculated factors, such as sign-in frequency. In any case for any individual, the true trust value can never be greater than their specific maximum trust value, it can only be less than or equal to. So, basically a member's maximum trust value is determined by how long they've been a member and staying active is a way of ensuring that their true trust value is equal to their maximum trust value. This would explain as to why a new member will not gain an elevated title, even if they post a thousand times a day, until their maximum trust value allows them to.
Ban observations can also be explained using this system. For instance, when an individual becomes banned their maximum trust value becomes temporarily lowered by X amount (depending upon the ban severity), and so their true trust value is also stuck at the new lowered maximum. X months later, their maximum trust value returns to what it would have been if the individual hadn't received the ban, and so their true trust value also increases to the new heightened maximum once they recover from the ban.
This is all completely speculative, but it's the best answer I have. Sorry if the last 3 paragraphs or so are hard to understand. I had to rush through them, but if any one has any questions about it I'd be happy to answer later. ^_^
I'm not saying that this theory is 100% true, or true at all, but it can be used to explain many observations made by many people within this thread.