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Subject: Refreshing Ranking system more often?

Halo 2 for Life!

Poll: Refreshing Ranking system more often?  [closed]
yeah:  62%
(5 Votes)
nope:  38%
(3 Votes)
Total Votes: 8

If we were to get Halo 2 back I would like the ranking system to be refreshed a lot more frequently.

After a certain level the ranking system broke down and lag and cheating become usual.

Remember being ranked down to 1 and how fun it was to rank up? Yeah it was fun but once you hit a rank that had mega loads of cheaters the rank system broke down and everyone went to unrank so...

Take away the need to cheat by refreshing it a lot which would make ranks actually mean something (it usually means how much experience you have and the time you put into the game playing it, not how well you press a standbye button but the real buttons lol).

After a few games the system starts to work and you already have a gradient of experienced (level 5 or above) vs no or low experiences (staying at 1, 2, or 3) and the dynamic of the ranking system will be working that quickly instead of the stagnant way we were accustomed to most of the life of halo 2 on XBL.


[Edited on 02.25.2011 4:18 AM PST]

  • 02.25.2011 4:17 AM PDT
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halo 2 still the best game in the series. long live halo 2.

Dam, I miss the old days playing halo 2 with my old brothers in arms. Thank you my old friends for giving me this account, I shall continue our legacy.

Bungie has never gotten their ranking system to work right. Sometimes you get ranked locked, sometimes you derank a few levels after one loss, you can rank boost on a new account to a 50 in a few games, etc. Bungie's ranking system has been plagued by problems. I have very little faith in Bungie fixing the ranking system and in Microsoft's trueskill system.

  • 02.25.2011 5:39 AM PDT

Halo 2 for Life!

Yeah, I agree. But I think increasing the frequency of re-setting the ranks would fix the halo 2 ranking system if it were to come back into existence. Maybe every month I think.
Posted by: JB 199
Bungie has never gotten their ranking system to work right. Sometimes you get ranked locked, sometimes you derank a few levels after one loss, you can rank boost on a new account to a 50 in a few games, etc. Bungie's ranking system has been plagued by problems. I have very little faith in Bungie fixing the ranking system and in Microsoft's trueskill system.

  • 02.25.2011 5:49 AM PDT

This is actually the stupidest thing ever posted on B.net:

Posted by: the omega man117
Why does everyone hate Halo 2? Maybe its because its the worst game ever next to mario.

To be honest, I think all playlists should of been unranked pre-shutdown. It would of resulted in faster search times and would of eliminated a lot of cheating (since there would of been no "symbol" to cheat or boost for).

  • 02.25.2011 9:17 PM PDT

Halo 2 for Life!

I know nothing about areana so I wouldn't know.

Every year? What would make that so great?

The cheaters would dominate the top ranks and the players that have alot of experince or play alot would hit the top fast and face cheaters alot (i.e. standbyers). I can see why you would want that but than their will be de-levelers.
Posted by: Frank_Sknaw
I'm pretty sure many people would get pissed off if there was a Rank refresh often, it would just be like Arena in Halo Reach. I wouldn't mind if they reset it every year or so but I'm not sure if this would be the best solution.

I believe it's much more difficult to find exploits to cheat in games now and even if you do, there would be easy evidence to get you banned (saved videos). I liked Halo 2's ranking system the best because in Halo 3 it was way too easy to get a high level and in Reach, there's pretty much nothing to work for since everything resets after a month.

  • 02.26.2011 10:13 AM PDT

This is the average H2 Fanboy.
Xfire: JacobGRocks.
50 in H2/H3? Great, but you still fail at this.

Any would-be change would cause the 5 people still playing to freak out.

  • 02.26.2011 12:18 PM PDT