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Genesiss

Mildly Menacing Medic
I play on skial servers probablly every day (mainly hightower la) and the one thing i really like in a server is when it has HLstats or some sort of ranking system it keeps me playing and makes me work towards something, I wouldn't be suprised if i was or near the #1 player on hightower la i've played there for over a year and i think i'm an above average player. I know skial has a ranking system but its a lot more complicated and it doesn't appear in chat or anything like that. I just think a different ranking system would be easier and more efficent than the current one.
 
hlstatsx couldn't handle the vast majority of players we've accumulated over the years, so we had to come up with our own system. so basically what those 2 said before me
 
I play on skial servers probablly every day (mainly hightower la) and the one thing i really like in a server is when it has HLstats or some sort of ranking system it keeps me playing and makes me work towards something, I wouldn't be suprised if i was or near the #1 player on hightower la i've played there for over a year and i think i'm an above average player. I know skial has a ranking system but its a lot more complicated and it doesn't appear in chat or anything like that. I just think a different ranking system would be easier and more efficent than the current one.

I've said this dozens of times in different threads already but there is no other ranking system for tf2 that has any meaning. Stats websites like hlstatsx and gameme are utterly useless as they give you a flat number of points for each action except for kills which is also useless because classes that don't focus on kills such as medics have a rating that doesn't correspond to their skill.

And what is so complicated about having a single number for your rating and another one for your rank?

Your rank and rating is displayed every single time you connect and if you want to see it again you type /rank.
 
Your ranking in custom servers is based on time played in the last week. There is no rating system for custom game modes as it wouldn't make any sense to compare people's saxton hale skills with deathrun or freak fortress, so we don't bother with those.