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Subject: Ranking system question

If you quit a game when all the players are found (exit to dashboard), or quit mid-game, I am aware that you lose exp, but do you lose skill?

I'm asking this because recently I quit a game of Lone Wolves at the start where I was 30 skill and the rest were 20-23ish skill players. I'm almost certain that I would've lost skill if I played the entirety of the game and came last, but because I quit, I didn't seem to lose any skill, even when checking it a few games later.

  • 08.10.2010 11:30 PM PDT
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You'll lose/gain skill the same whether you quit or not, you just have a much better chance of doing well because you're actually playing. Example, you quit in a team game but your team still wins, you could go up but if they lose, you could also go down.

  • 08.10.2010 11:38 PM PDT

yes that is suposed to happen you can think of it as a way of just losing exp instead of skill but when you do this it still makes ranking up herder for you

  • 08.10.2010 11:40 PM PDT

You still lose skill. It just doesn't register a loss until the game ended, regardless of if you quit or not. Vice versa as well, if you quit right at the beginning of a game, and then your teammates win, it counts as a win for you.

  • 08.10.2010 11:44 PM PDT

Mixed answers here. The first one seems more likely, but still..
So your saying I could just go into ranked team slayer, quit if I've got a good team, knowing they'll win it for me, and repeat that process over and over?

  • 08.10.2010 11:45 PM PDT

Sounds a bit dodgey to me. Anyone sure of an answer?

  • 08.10.2010 11:59 PM PDT

Posted by: spartain ken 15
I would say I am one of the most successful trolls in Bungie.net history.


Posted by: recarpo112320
You'll lose/gain skill the same whether you quit or not, you just have a much better chance of doing well because you're actually playing. Example, you quit in a team game but your team still wins, you could go up but if they lose, you could also go down.


That's close enough, good post.

  • 08.11.2010 12:48 AM PDT