Generals

[Jamie]

This site is young, and so there aren't very many generals, but one day soon, there will be a couple of dozen or so. Just so Generals have something tro strive four, after you get to 3000 pts, every 500 pts after that, you get a star. For example, at 3500, you are a two star general, at 4000 you are a 3 star general, at 4500 you are a four star general, and at 5000 you are a five star general. And if you really want something interesting, at 7,500 maybe you could be Secretary of Defense, and at 10,000 you could be the president. I know those last two are a bit farfetched, but I think there does need to be an incentive to advance after becoming a general. There is at least one player already closing in on 3,200 pts. So iI think the ranks up to 5 star general is a great idea, how bout you.

[AndyDufresne]

If the day ever comes, I think ranks from general to five star general, could be a nice little option. It would surely be very difficult...


--Andy

[General Mayhem]

I personally prefer the Field Marshall rank. Or maybe that could be the ultimate rank after star Generals?

[AK_iceman]

That sounds like too many ranks when you add all those star generals.
Maybe 1 or 2 more added would be nice, like one between colonel and general, and then maybe 1 more after general, such as 4000 points (which was the original score for general).

[spiesr]

Just so Generals have something tro strive four,.

When they are that high don't they strive to be first???

[General Mayhem]

That sounds like too many ranks when you add all those star generals.
Maybe 1 or 2 more added would be nice, like one between colonel and general, and then maybe 1 more after general, such as 4000 points (which was the original score for general).

I agree - as in my suggestion thread - 2 more would be good. Field Marshall and Brigadier.

Brigadier at 150 games/2500 score
Field Marshall at 300 games/4000 score

[strike wolf]

I think it would be a good idea just because their are alot people who play just to aim higher. Why not give them something new to shoot for?

[ZawBanjito]

I think we're jumping the gun speculating on a "couple dozen or so" Generals. True enough, when the other ranks were first achieved, they were filled up within a week. But this hasn't happened with General yet, and we've been there for ages now. There are only two current and two former Generals (unless I missing someone...), and Pilate is only holding on by the skin of his teeth. All those Generals achieved that rank primarily through playing doubles or triples games.

From what I can tell (unscientifically), in general there has been a levelling off of points at the top. From the foundation of the site through until maybe August the top score would increase by about hundred points a week. Since then, movement has slowed considerably, and for almost a month now it's barely grown at all. We may be hitting a limit. Achieving the top 10 has become fiendishly difficult, and staying there for a lengthy period of time has so far proven impossible except for an extreme handful, most of whom, again, are primarily doubles/triples players. Scorba appears to have lost 400 points in the last two weeks! The top 20 is a very slow moving rank. Currently, #20 is pminus, with 2203 points. I have 2502 at #14, tied with AK_iceman. If I wanted to reattain my highest ever rank of #6, I would need over 200 more points. These are daunting numbers at this level. If I wanted to get those 200 points, knowing how I play, I would need to spend a good couple of weeks and at LEAST an hour and a half a day on about 20-25 concurrently running games.

I support the idea of intermediate ranks between major and colonel and colonel and general, but I'd like to wait for several more months to see if ranks above that are necessary. If points don't start climbing again we may never achieve more than a handful of Generals.

[Pedronicus]

There does seem to be a hell of a lot of colonels now days.

[sully800]

I think we're jumping the gun speculating on a "couple dozen or so" Generals. True enough, when the other ranks were first achieved, they were filled up within a week. But this hasn't happened with General yet, and we've been there for ages now. There are only two current and two former Generals (unless I missing someone...), and Pilate is only holding on by the skin of his teeth. All those Generals achieved that rank primarily through playing doubles or triples games.

From what I can tell (unscientifically), in general there has been a levelling off of points at the top. From the foundation of the site through until maybe August the top score would increase by about hundred points a week. Since then, movement has slowed considerably, and for almost a month now it's barely grown at all. We may be hitting a limit. Achieving the top 10 has become fiendishly difficult, and staying there for a lengthy period of time has so far proven impossible except for an extreme handful, most of whom, again, are primarily doubles/triples players. Scorba appears to have lost 400 points in the last two weeks! The top 20 is a very slow moving rank. Currently, #20 is pminus, with 2203 points. I have 2502 at #14, tied with AK_iceman. If I wanted to reattain my highest ever rank of #6, I would need over 200 more points. These are daunting numbers at this level. If I wanted to get those 200 points, knowing how I play, I would need to spend a good couple of weeks and at LEAST an hour and a half a day on about 20-25 concurrently running games.

I support the idea of intermediate ranks between major and colonel and colonel and general, but I'd like to wait for several more months to see if ranks above that are necessary. If points don't start climbing again we may never achieve more than a handful of Generals.

In my opinion, the problem that makes it difficult to climb higher is that its lonely at the top. Even if Belz plays all colonels and loses and loses a significant amount of points. I think that's why we were stuck at 10 or so colonels for so long- it actually was harder for them to gain points.

Over time though as more people are added into the system and more people achieve a higher rank, the colonels have a larger talent pool to battler without losing many points (and possibly gaining many). I think that's why the number of colonels sky rocketed to 50 over the last month. I think the same thing will happen with generals eventually because if you are playing people with the same rank as you its not any harder to advance (the most difficult part is that if you get into the 4000 range or even 3000 range playing a private is probably suicide).

Anyway, I think it will take a long time (longer and longer the higher we go) but I think 4000 will be reached just as 3000 was. I don't see the points leveling off any time soon.

[Megatron]

I like the idea of a 5 star general, but not president, that would be stupid. I for one would not like to be president. Perhaps "Megatron" could be the top rank, right above "God of War"?

[sfhbballnut]

I think we should just pick a ridiculous point and set a rank there and see if anybody can come close.

[SirSebstar]

how about: Commander in Chief

[Blitzaholic]

I agree with AKiceman in the fact that there should be a new ranking symbol at 2500, I would keep colonels at 2000, something else at 2500, and generals leave at 3000, 2 star general at 3200, 3 star at 3500, 4 star at 3700 and 5 star at 4000, but I do not think most of you realize how extremely diffficult this is??????? Maintaining a 3000 ranking or higher over time is truly daunting, extremely challenging, I lost it 2x in a matter of days, another time, just minutes. if anyone ever gets beyond 4000, well, God bless them cause it wont be me! Play all the terminations, doubles, triples, elite games, whatever you want, still so so so hard to get their and maintain, and the players in the TOP 25 ranked know what I am speaking of.

[sully800]

I agree with AKiceman in the fact that there should be a new ranking symbol at 2500, I would keep colonels at 2000, something else at 2500, and generals leave at 3000, 2 star general at 3200, 3 star at 3500, 4 star at 3700 and 5 star at 4000, but I do not think most of you realize how extremely diffficult this is??????? Maintaining a 3000 ranking or higher over time is truly daunting, extremely challenging, I lost it 2x in a matter of days, another time, just minutes. if anyone ever gets beyond 4000, well, God bless them cause it wont be me! Play all the terminations, doubles, triples, elite games, whatever you want, still so so so hard to get their and maintain, and the players in the TOP 25 ranked know what I am speaking of.

lol, EVERYONE realizes how extremely difficult it is because we're the people who find it difficult to get to 2000 (or 1500 or even 1000 as the case may be). 4000 is just a pipe dream right now, but it will happen eventually.