PvP I have a good idea for Combat Ranking!

[Morbad]

I for one don’t want the combat status broke, if I see an elite combat player, I know he’s really earned those stripes

If you see an Elite combat rank CMDR, you know he or she has destroyed a pile of NPC vessels, that's it. Nothing else is implied, and nothing particularly needs to be done to 'earn' those kills.

There are whole wings of Combat Elite CMDRs that wouldn't stand a snowball's chance in hell against my CMDR if we were all in identical ships, and there are single (no-reset) Expert ranked CMDRs that would annihilate me nine times in ten.

Combat It's just as meaningless as all the other ranks. You can get there while your turret boat fights for you in a CZ, or you can do massacre authority missions in a stock sidewinder, it all counts the same.

 

[Riverside]

If you see an Elite combat rank CMDR, you know he or she has destroyed a pile of NPC vessels, that's it. Nothing else is implied, and nothing particularly needs to be done to 'earn' those kills.

There are whole wings of Combat Elite CMDRs that wouldn't stand a snowball's chance in hell against my CMDR if we were all in identical ships, and there are single (no-reset) Expert ranked CMDRs that would annihilate me nine times in ten.

Combat It's just as meaningless as all the other ranks. You can get there while your turret boat fights for you in a CZ, or you can do massacre authority missions in a stock sidewinder, it all counts the same.

I agree. It's just a matter of time and at best indicates the player isn't a novice & should know what to expect the game to throw at them. They have meaning to the player that acheived them, no more or less.


If there is a single metric in the game that has some significant skill attached (other than tenacity) it's probably the CQC rank. Mine is 0% helpless btw

 

[Morbad]

If there is a single metric in the game that has some significant skill attached (other than tenacity) it's probably the CQC rank. Mine is 0% helpless btw

Even CQC rank can advance largely independently of one's performance/ability. Yeah, you rank up a bit faster if you do well, but you'd eventually rank up even if you just sat there. Some people also team stack and otherwise abuse the system to cheese CQC rank; quite a few times I've joined a deathmatch only to be facing a team of four or five against two or three randoms, or team deathmatch where two of my teammates were really playing for the other side.

Some of the statistics can hint at some of the things people may have learned, but there isn't any single composite measure that exists, or that could reasonable be derived, that would really be a good indicator of any particular skill.

I guess it doesn't really hurt to have them there for people that like them, but I don't ascribe any particular significance to any of the rankings.

 

[Riverside]

I guess it doesn't really hurt to have them there for people that like them, but I don't ascribe any particular significance to any of the rankings.

I'm proud of my achievements because I know what it took me to get there, but I don't expect anyone else to pat me on the back (although I appreciate any respect garnered).

For other people's achievements I'm interested in the story behind it, rather than necessarily the actual thing they did.
I thought your vid with the SLF station trolling was fantastic, not because of what you did particularly, but because of the context, the story behind why you did it. Truesilver's recent rail-Cutter vid was a clear demonstration of calm competence that I know I couldn't reproduce. His post wasn't condescending about skill, just about being better equipped with better tactics.

What I find frustrating more than any kind of bragging though, is those that are clearly really good at something, but manage to turn it into a complaint about others not being as good as they are.