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[Kanatta Jing]

Ranked from Bronze < 1000 -> Silver < 1400 -> Gold < 1800 -> Platinum > 1800

Suppose if for the non-refundable cost of twenty dollars you could receive a non-removable, non hide-able Match and Forum tag that reveals you're PUG ELO in the weight class of your choice!

It can of course be replaced at a later date for another 20$. Presumably after a serious training regimen.

[PEEFsmash]

It might be possible to charge for an Elo badge, but not when it is static and non-updating. Plus, there should be more than 4 leagues.

Also, $20 is an absurd price. Elo/league should be made public anyway, at least as an option.

Edited by PEEFsmash, 30 June 2013 - 02:05 PM.

[soarra]

lets not get peef started on public elo please

[BIix]

Why on earth would I pay money to show an Elo rating that I earned?

Some people really drink the kool-aid and are trying to wring the crap out of the community's pockets, eh?

[GODzillaGSPB]

BIix, on 30 June 2013 - 02:02 PM, said:

Why on earth would I pay money to show an Elo rating that I earned?

Some people really drink the kool-aid and are trying to wring the crap out of the community's pockets, eh?

This is his resumee for PGI. They're hiring, haven't you heard?

[Mystere]

Publicly displaying everyone's Elo score is already a bad idea. But an e-peen tag?

Anyone who chooses to display such a thing will just be ridiculed as a coattail hanger ... or worse.

[Kanatta Jing]

PEEFsmash, on 30 June 2013 - 01:53 PM, said:

It might be possible to charge for an Elo badge, but not when it is static and non-updating. Plus, there should be more than 4 leagues.

Also, $20 is an absurd price. Elo/league should be made public anyway, at least as an option.

Just think of the poor guy that updates his tag every month and gets Silver everytime. It would bankroll the whole game.

[Volthorne]

Kanatta Jing, on 30 June 2013 - 02:18 PM, said:

Just think of the poor guy that updates his tag every month and gets Silver everytime. It would bankroll the whole game.

Last I checked, people got paid more than $20 a month. At least, here in Canada they do. Our igloos are damned expensive for upkeep.

[PEEFsmash]

Volthorne, on 30 June 2013 - 02:52 PM, said:

Last I checked, people got paid more than $20 a month. At least, here in Canada they do. Our igloos are damned expensive for upkeep.

Luckily every Canadian home by law has it's own Mother Maple Tree which yields high-value Maple syrup which easily pays for each family's igloo.

[aniviron]

Volthorne, on 30 June 2013 - 02:52 PM, said:

Last I checked, people got paid more than $20 a month. At least, here in Canada they do. Our igloos are damned expensive for upkeep.

Sorry, wage laws in 'murrica are pretty lax. I only earn $17.62/month.

[Jman5]

PEEFsmash, on 30 June 2013 - 03:08 PM, said:

Luckily every Canadian home by law has it's own Mother Maple Tree which yields high-value Maple syrup which easily pays for each family's igloo.

Yes, but then how are you going to afford Moose Insurance?

[PEEFsmash]

Jman5, on 30 June 2013 - 03:56 PM, said:

Yes, but then how are you going to afford Moose Insurance?

It depends which kind of Moose Insurance. Of course there is Moose Attack Insurance but all that is required is a donation of the first-born male to the Queen Moose of Quebec. Moose Riders Insurance, on the other hand, is paid for by the Canadian Bacon yields that come from what I can only assume is a single Canadian Pig.

Hockey tickets are also legal currency and have been for thousands of years, but it has been decades since a Canadian traded away his tickets for something as relatively unimportant as housing, food, or security.

[Angel of Annihilation]

Actually ELO should be a stat on your stats page. In fact I can't believe they have no way for the individual to gauge their rankings in what is suppose to be a competitve PvP game. I mean you can't even quote your stats because due to ELO not every player is treated equally. For example it would be easy for the top player in the lowest ELO bracket to post the same stats as the top player in the top bracket yet their skill levels would be miles different.

Edited by Viktor Drake, 30 June 2013 - 04:24 PM.

[Deathlike]

I don't see why you shouldn't be seeing your own ELO privately on delay (like, even a month's delay). How can you abuse something that's still in the past?

[PEEFsmash]

Viktor Drake, on 30 June 2013 - 04:23 PM, said:

Actually ELO should be a stat on your stats page. In fact I can't believe they have no way for the individual to gauge their rankings in what is suppose to be a competitve PvP game. I mean you can't even quote your stats because due to ELO not every player is treated equally. For example it would be easy for the top player in the lowest ELO bracket to post the same stats as the top player in the top bracket yet their skill levels would be miles different.

Well the first part is right but the second isn't. Once your winrate gets significantly above 1:1, into the 2:1 and up range, you do have a high Elo if you maintain that for a couple hundred games. There aren't Elo brackets right now, so you can't be like...a dominant player in a low Elo bracket. As you win more, your Elo increases. So no player that has a 2:1 win rate over his or her last 300 games is a low-Elo player.

However, a 1:1 win rate can mean you are in the bottom 20% or in the top 20%, or right in the middle, and you will never know for sure. You only know if your winrate in your last few hundred games is significantly lower or significantly higher than 1:1.

Edited by PEEFsmash, 30 June 2013 - 04:34 PM.

[Hexenhammer]

Why does everyone have a hard on about their elo?


I'd rather have decals that I can put on my mech that show off my house or merc rank which I suspect will be part of CW and loyalty points.

[LethalMezzle]

I'm not sure if I want to pay money to show everyone how bad at this game I am.

[Rippthrough]

What do I need a tag for? I already know I'm awesome.

[Kaspirikay]

So, basically you're saying we should let people with money show off?

Can't they already just do that irl

[FupDup]

Kaspirikay, on 30 June 2013 - 06:09 PM, said:

So, basically you're saying we should let people with money show off?

Can't they already just do that irl

They already do it in MWO with camo and hero mechs.