Well, the title says it all...as it is of now, the combat rankings mean absolutely nothing, and the only way to gain some are combat spars.

I'd have a few ideas, would be nice if I heard of others.


For example, the combat rankings shouldn't just be from #1 to #whatever...
It would be nice if tiers or something like that would be added, maybe with level restrictions or might restrictions or something.
Or basinwide tiers, where, when you join the combat rankings, you'll be assigned a tier of around 4-7 people, and when you spar them and win, you get points. The one with the highest points rating could then get into the next higher tier, where the best of the other tiers are. This will go until at the end, -one- person wins, and there honestly can't be said that they didn't earn it. Maybe that person could get a prize or something...

I actually would've some more ideas, like little tier-ffas that could be requested if all met in the sparring grounds, but I didn't think about them well enough, since I doubt this will be added, simply because it would take a bit of coding.

Still would be a nice addition though.

Players have been trying to organize tournaments like that for ages... But many people just didn't show up for their spars or just didn't participate, and things like that.

Ask amaru about combat rankings: he couldn't find combat spars. I watched him try, it was funny.

The trouble here is that we all KNOW who the winner will be - daevos, or a titan/demigod. Lyco, maybe.

This isn't Achaea with 50 or 60 top tier fighters and the entry there was 2000cr away. This is far, far different. Noone is going to try for top spot because why would you combat spar the person you KNOW you're going to lose to?

10-50cr for a winner of monthly season and we will see a lot more combat fights.

Or any other advantage/prize except line in honors.

Well, you can always pair people depending on their skill / relative power to the organizer / level
I guess seeing a big combat between some of the top fighters must be interesting!

I wish combat ranks were like in Aetolia, where they didn't reset, or if it had a much longer reset time.

When the world become more peacefull you will see more combat spars.

Why do it for play-play when you can do it for real-real?

You only know who is going to win because your always fighting them on the battlefield anyway.

Like in the Game of Thrones, the only people who go to the tournies are the people who are not constantly on the field.

I like the idea of a tier system. Make it based off of relative Might more than anything. That ALONE would help to show who's powerful overall, who's powerful due to having more credits, and so on. It'll also help limit the urge to fight people MUCH lower in might (or encourage people to gain more credits to be able to compete with the top leages).

As for reset time: Instead of it resetting you could have decay, with the top rank decaying faster than the bottom. It'll force people to spar more to keep it up.

Then limit the number of spars with the same people that can count per year: 2 max.

one reason i hate combat rankings is people like is happening currently sparred loads of easy people got 1st and then wont spar anyone, i asked was told doesnt feel like sparring wants a break next month i asked again after theyd sparred anotehr young easy opponent and they said they werent sparring at the moment despite that they just had. i just dont understand how we get a fair result?

Simple, we just don't.

Tiers based on level and might could improve rankings perhaps, but it never will be fair and objective, one person will have transed one guild skill, trade skill and, let's say, planar, while another will have 3 guild skills. Same might, big difference.

And then there are people who easily beat those who have few times their might because they're that good, I imagine they wouldn't like to be limited like that?

Sorry that I didn't answer yesterday...was in the middle of bashing, and suddenly I got your three tells. After I was done, I had forgotten on you though. *cough*
We can spar now if you want.

eh i wasnt talking about you ash..you spar lots of people and most of them hihger tier i wouldnt mind if you won, i told you to spar people too win as i prefer people i look upon as in the topish to win then those that just spar lots of lower

They reset the combat rankings because once you got high enough, or threw fights enough, it was possible to game the system to stay ranked highly. Now, it's just as meaningless, if not more so. They may as well just take them out completely if they're not going to fix it.

maybe they should just remove it from honours untill they can fix it