ELO ranking

[Banned 42]

We are currently using KDR system that barely shows anything about pking skill. You could get 10 kills and 0 deaths by getting few easy kills and your KDR would be 10. In meanwhile someone can have 1000 kills and have 100 deaths and have exactly same KDR.

Many games these days prefer ELO rating system over KDR as it allows the game to differentiate players between a grandmaster and a player that just kill noobs all day long.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elo_rating_system
Quote of how ELO works:

A player's Elo rating is represented by a number, which increases or decreases based upon the outcome of games between rated players. After every game, the winning player takes points from the losing one. The total number of points gained or lost after a game is determined by the difference between the ratings of the winner and loser. In a series of games between a high-rated player and a low-rated player, the high-rated player is expected to score more wins. If the high-rated player wins, only a few rating points will be taken from the low-rated player. However, if the lower rated player scores an upset win, many rating points will be transferred. The lower rated player will also gain a few points from the higher rated player in the event of a draw. This makes the rating system self-correcting. A player whose rating is too low should, in the long run, do better than the rating system predicts, and thus gain rating points until the rating reflects the true playing strength.

My suggestion is to replace KDR with ELO.

[sharingan]

I like this.

+1

[Dan]

any suggestion for how that elo would be calced? and is this just in wildy or including duel too?

[sharingan]

any suggestion for how that elo would be calced? and is this just in wildy or including duel too?

I'm assuming wildy. Duel is just rng anyway.

[London]

ELO is meant for matchmaking so it can match you with a similar ranking opponent to go against. The wilderness is a free for all, so it doesn't make sense to add one as those two factors conflict eachother.

K/D =/= high elo ranking. High elo ranking is gained by winning against other people with high elo... It would make sense to add it to a minigame but not for all of the wilderness.

[Dan]

ELO is meant for matchmaking so it can match you with a similar ranking opponent to go against. The wilderness is a free for all, so it doesn't make sense to add one as those two factors conflict eachother.

K/D =/= high elo ranking. High elo ranking is gained by winning against other people with high elo... It would make sense to add it to a minigame but not for all of the wilderness.

it'd be used here for bragging rights essentially, could generate a formula based on kills/deaths/(risk possibly) that gives a much more accurate display of how good someone is than a reset-able kd ratio does

[London]

it'd be used here for bragging rights essentially, could generate a formula based on kills/deaths/(risk possibly) that gives a much more accurate display of how good someone is than a reset-able kd ratio does

can't wait for another system to be abused for people's ego

[Brooksy]

The wilderness would still be a free for all place but the people with a high ELO would gain basically nothing from killing pvmers or people with low ELO and wouldn't be able to flaunt their shit like they're good or something. They would actually have to kill real pkers around their ELO to rank up higher.

[Banned 42]

any suggestion for how that elo would be calced? and is this just in wildy or including duel too?

I'll think about perfect formula for it. Just in wilderness.

ELO is meant for matchmaking so it can match you with a similar ranking opponent to go against. The wilderness is a free for all, so it doesn't make sense to add one as those two factors conflict eachother.

K/D =/= high elo ranking. High elo ranking is gained by winning against other people with high elo... It would make sense to add it to a minigame but not for all of the wilderness.

What does this have to do with the wilderness being free for all? People don't PK just to achieve better KDR, but it would be good addition to have system that really makes some sense. I've never cared about KDR, because it's quite pointless system.

it'd be used here for bragging rights essentially, could generate a formula based on kills/deaths/(risk possibly) that gives a much more accurate display of how good someone is than a reset-able kd ratio does

I don't know if it's bragging, well probably some people it would be. I think it would be fun to compete with system that actually gives some kind of image of how "good" you are. I think the value shouldn't be resetable.
Your idea of formula that includes risk is not bad either, better than regular KDR.

The wilderness would still be a free for all place but the people with a high ELO would gain basically nothing from killing pvmers or people with low ELO and wouldn't be able to flaunt their shit like they're good or something. They would actually have to kill real pkers around their ELO to rank up higher.

Exactly.

[London]

What does this have to do with the wilderness being free for all? People don't PK just to achieve better KDR, but it would be good addition to have system that really makes some sense. I've never cared about KDR, because it's quite pointless system.

Because ELO is only used in matchmaking where you are fighting someone of the similar skill ranking.

Edit: Don't get me wrong, I think it's a brilliant idea, but I'm not sure of how it would be implemented properly. I could work, I'm not saying it couldn't. I'm just explaining how I know ELO works through matchmaking