Very small patch to add new 2 ranks

Very small patch to add new 2 ranks

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Satirik
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Very small patch to add new 2 ranks

Post by Satirik »

NOiZE idea ...

rank 6 > 500h = half gold star
rank 7 > 1500h = gold star

edit: i fixed the force color bug too ( if you force a color to a team if the player hasn't the color in his list he will keep his color)

that's all


the patch :
http://0.t.free.fr/Rank6+7_ForceTeamColorDebug.patch
and the graphics since we can't add binary files to a patch :
http://0.t.free.fr/PatchGraphics.7z
extract in : /trunk/Lobby/TASClient/Graphics/

never tested the server... the lobby compiled but can't connect to the current server
Last edited by Satirik on 29 Aug 2007, 21:31, edited 1 time in total.
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NOiZE
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Post by NOiZE »

Nice work,

its a nice solution for now, until we have a proper rank system.

There is a lot of skill difference in the "stars" section now.
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Post by Satirik »

NOiZE wrote:Nice work,

its a nice solution for now, until we have a proper rank system.

There is a lot of skill difference in the "stars" section now.
you're just a cheater ... doing test ingame "to improve ba" ... WRONNG ... to increase your ingame !!!
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Relative
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Post by Relative »

50 hours off rank 6 and I still suck.
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Post by lurker »

Satirik wrote:
NOiZE wrote:Nice work,

its a nice solution for now, until we have a proper rank system.

There is a lot of skill difference in the "stars" section now.
you're just a cheater ... doing test ingame "to improve ba" ... WRONNG ... to increase your ingame !!!
I thought the server only counted ingame time with 2+ human players.
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Post by Neddie »

lurker wrote:
Satirik wrote:
NOiZE wrote:Nice work,

its a nice solution for now, until we have a proper rank system.

There is a lot of skill difference in the "stars" section now.
you're just a cheater ... doing test ingame "to improve ba" ... WRONNG ... to increase your ingame !!!
I thought the server only counted ingame time with 2+ human players.
Yar, it does only count that.
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Post by Neddie »

Satirik, 500 hours is a little out there. Less than ten people have that (And many of them suck), so it won't help with the variation among stars at all.

Could you, pretty please, insert an electrum star for 250 Hours?
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Post by Felix the Cat »

Yeah, I'm at 402 hours and I suck.
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Post by Neddie »

Felix the Cat wrote:Yeah, I'm at 402 hours and I suck.
How the hell? You never play anymore!

Actually, I underestimated the amount of time people play for, myself included. While about half of all the time in lobby for me has been unrecorded AI testing, I have over 500 Hours of play.

Put an extra zero on my estimate of how many people have 500 hours.
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Post by Ishach »

Why make the ranks easy to get - we'd just end up with another silver star situation.

Im pretty sure there would be at least 50-100 people with more than 500 hours. I haven't played regularly for almost a year and I have 479 hours
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Post by Neddie »

I just want the electrum to break up the monotony.
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Post by Felix the Cat »

Since electrum's color would look a bit like gold, maybe have a bronze-silver-gold system or something.
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Post by Satirik »

Felix the Cat wrote:Since electrum's color would look a bit like gold, maybe have a bronze-silver-gold system or something.
bronze and gold look the same in a 16x16 pixel pict
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Post by 1v0ry_k1ng »

144 hours till half gold :(
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Post by Felix the Cat »

Satirik wrote:
Felix the Cat wrote:Since electrum's color would look a bit like gold, maybe have a bronze-silver-gold system or something.
bronze and gold look the same in a 16x16 pixel pict
Well, if the bronze is really brown, and the gold is really yellow, they look different.
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Post by Satirik »

Felix the Cat wrote:
Satirik wrote:
Felix the Cat wrote:Since electrum's color would look a bit like gold, maybe have a bronze-silver-gold system or something.
bronze and gold look the same in a 16x16 pixel pict
Well, if the bronze is really brown, and the gold is really yellow, they look different.
just make them and show us ... its open source dude !! open source !! :)
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Post by Neddie »

Can I modify your patch graphics then?
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Post by Neddie »

What about this?

First 5 ranks stay the same, as above.
Sixth rank, 250 hours: Three silver stars.
Seventh rank, 500 hours: Gold star.
Eighth rank, 1000 hours: Three gold stars.
Ninth rank, 1500 hours: Three gold stars on silver shield.
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Post by Zenka »

isn't there a sort of rithm in the ranks? ('expt for rank 1 and 2).

1: 0
2: 5
3: 25
4: 50
5: 100
leads to:
6: 200
7: 400
8: 800
9: 1600?

I like neddies graphical idea though :)
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Post by Sleksa »

The best solution would be wc3 style ranks,
the more games won compared to games lost = your rank.
this would also mean that when you've been away for 1 year and you come back it wont automatically show you as the 1337m4st3rpwn3r4t0r who gets all the respekts from the newbies until he forgets his commander to the range of a hllt for a minute.

ranks showing a rough estimate of ingame time isnt as accurate tool, it doesnt show how many games the player has played, nor does it show how many games he has won. one could obtain the best rank just by putting up a 1v1 game up with a friend and then leaving the game open for a few days?
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