Greetings, Devil Dog! Welcome to the Call of Duty Forums. It looks like you're looking forward to Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4, but haven't created an account yet. Why not take a minute to Currently the global rank is calculated using a score per minute ratio, but it doesn't take into account how much score you are giving away to the other team. You could actually be performing very badly and still achieve a high rank, so long as your only goal was to get the highest score possible every game. I think a much better system would be for them to base rank on a score taken to score given ratio, instead of simply a score/min ratio. To clarify, it would look like this: Score ratio = (score taken from enemy team/score given to enemy team).
The way the system currently works, you could easily achieve a high score per minute by just doing as many different things, which includes dying, as fast as you can. But this doesn't translate to victory most of the time. In fact, victory is entirely irrelevant when it comes to calculating your global rank at the moment. There is a significant disconnect between the objectives of the game and the way the game rates your performance. Don't get me wrong. I believe this has always been by design since the beginning of CoD, but if Black Ops is trying to distinguish itself as the competitive CoD game, I think we need to do away with this approach to rating player performance. It discourages winning and instead forces the player to run around like a chicken with its head cut off trying to do as much as possible in the least amount of time. I think the ranking system needs to be properly aligned with how the competitive community actually plays the game, and they play to win, not to get the most score possible at any cost.
"Score ratio" actually does indicate how well a player performs and a high value actually translates to victory. For example, if your score was 5000 and your score ratio was 0.5, that would mean you got an attack helicopter for your team, but you gave the enemy team a gunship! That gunship would likely end the game faster, and your score/min ratio would actually be high, despite losing the game for your team.
Score ratio could be calculated per game or per minute, like the current system. Either way it would be a better indication of performance than the current score/min ratio, which is a quite meaningless metric that only indicates how frantic a player is.
The way the system currently works, you could easily achieve a high score per minute by just doing as many different things, which includes dying, as fast as you can. But this doesn't translate to victory most of the time. In fact, victory is entirely irrelevant when it comes to calculating your global rank at the moment. There is a significant disconnect between the objectives of the game and the way the game rates your performance. Don't get me wrong. I believe this has always been by design since the beginning of CoD, but if Black Ops is trying to distinguish itself as the competitive CoD game, I think we need to do away with this approach to rating player performance. It discourages winning and instead forces the player to run around like a chicken with its head cut off trying to do as much as possible in the least amount of time. I think the ranking system needs to be properly aligned with how the competitive community actually plays the game, and they play to win, not to get the most score possible at any cost.
"Score ratio" actually does indicate how well a player performs and a high value actually translates to victory. For example, if your score was 5000 and your score ratio was 0.5, that would mean you got an attack helicopter for your team, but you gave the enemy team a gunship! That gunship would likely end the game faster, and your score/min ratio would actually be high, despite losing the game for your team.
Score ratio could be calculated per game or per minute, like the current system. Either way it would be a better indication of performance than the current score/min ratio, which is a quite meaningless metric that only indicates how frantic a player is.
