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What Rank are you?

Newbie 3 4.92%
 
Rookie 22 36.07%
 
Padawan 11 18.03%
 
Sea Dog 13 21.31%
 
Captain 9 14.75%
 
Agent 2 3.28%
 
Elite 0 0%
 
Hero 0 0%
 
Legend 1 1.64%
 
Titan 0 0%
 
Total:61
manuel on 13 July 2011

How often are the ranks going to change? 0.0



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thetonestarr on 13 July 2011

The levels need to be set up more newb-heavy. There should be at least six levels before you get to 20-25k. Makes it feel more rewarding early on.

Also, I agree wholeheartedly with the foulness of "sea dog" and its seeming inappropriateness amongst the others.



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mjk45 on 13 July 2011

I'm a Padawan with no way to ever reach the rank of Jedi.



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manuel on 13 July 2011
mjk45 said:
I'm a Padawan with no way to ever reach the rank of Jedi.


Indeed... there's Padawan, but no Jedi. How could that happen?



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yo_john117 on 13 July 2011
thetonestarr said:
The levels need to be set up more newb-heavy. There should be at least six levels before you get to 20-25k. Makes it feel more rewarding early on.

Also, I agree wholeheartedly with the foulness of "sea dog" and its seeming inappropriateness amongst the others.

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ethomaz on 13 July 2011
mjk45 said:
I'm a Padawan with no way to ever reach the rank of Jedi.

You can be Sea Dog... waaaaaaay better.



Chrizum on 13 July 2011

Don't care for the ranks myself but it's obviously ridiculous to call someone with 2500+ posts a "rookie".

I'm a seadog myself, whatever the hell that means...



Baalzamon on 13 July 2011

Yea, I think the term rookie was made to include way too many people.

I have over 2000 posts, I've added and ranked all my games, done a couple game db things, talked a bunch with friends, etc., and I'm referred to as a "rookie?"

While I was only Level 3 before the new points system (I think), and went up to Level 4 with the new points, there is no reason why, after I have gotten more points during that time frame, I am now downgraded to Level 2.

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Also, is there a way to look up people based on their points. I want to see if my estimate that less than 1% of the active users on this website are contained in the top 40% of ranks. It just doesn't seem like we should even care about our ranking if the top 4 are only reserved for the super ultimate users of the website.



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Seece on 13 July 2011
Baalzamon said:
Yea, I think the term rookie was made to include way too many people.

I have over 2000 posts, I've added and ranked all my games, done a couple game db things, talked a bunch with friends, etc., and I'm referred to as a "rookie?"

While I was only Level 3 before the new points system (I think), and went up to Level 4 with the new points, there is no reason why, after I have gotten more points during that time frame, I am now downgraded to Level 2.

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Also, is there a way to look up people based on their points. I want to see if my estimate that less than 1% of the active users on this website are contained in the top 40% of ranks. It just doesn't seem like we should even care about our ranking if the top 4 are only reserved for the super ultimate users of the website.

Not super ultimate, just people that contribuit a lot (it isn't hard if you want a high rank), you know that's the whole point? You're not suppose to get there easily.

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/members.php?name=&gender=&keyword=&country=&type=&order=Points

Looking at your points history, I think level 2 is fitting for you. - http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/profile/56028/baalzamon/points/#content



 

thetonestarr on 14 July 2011
Machina said:
*deep breath, calm thoughts, don't get snarky*

Some valid complaints here and I've taken them on board. That said, I've no sympathy for those complaining about having been here for ages and having too low a level; levels aren't based on age of account, they're based on various contributions to the site.

Anyway, we'll go about this slightly differently and start over. Since most of you seem to have missed the original discussion we'll do it this way:

1 - Introduce more levels and smaller gaps. Not massive changes, just more manageable steps.

2 - Create a thread for name suggestions and dicussion. We'll see what comes of that and work from there.


Hopefully ya'll will stop yelling at me now.

So how about those of us who have been here for ages and contributed a ton back in the day? I submitted a whole load of games, game descriptions, boxarts, screenshots, and other generic game information back in the day before we had proper ways to give credit to said submitters.

Again, the system is screwed up.



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