I would not honestly worry about it. The vast majority of people on this website do not care too much about the Polycount ranks. It is just a very rough indication of how much you have posted here. Just get ranks through normal use of the forum rather than trying to artificially get your rank up by trying to make posts where possible.
There is an (Mostly inaccurate) but still partially accurate list of the number of posts required to get each rank that I posted in this thread a few posts down. I do not think we have been given an accurate listing of exactly how much posts are required to reach each rank.
Says the wise Kung-Fu master when asked by his students why they don't have a belt colour ranking system: "In Chinese martial arts, we use belts to keep our trousers from falling down......"
Yeah, the ranking can also be misleading in that it's marking quantity and not quality plus how long you been here. So sure, you could 'farm' yourself up by spamming posts, but overall it would be counter productive, since your 'game' would be filled with rubbish.
@Eric Chadwick From what I understand the way this works seems to promote spam. Why not level up according to level of appreciate i.e. insightful=25exp awesome=50exp etc.. I think this mechanic has a lot of potential. From what I'm reading it seems like it hasn't been explored unfortunately.
@Eric Chadwick From what I understand the way this works seems to promote spam. Why not level up according to level of appreciate i.e. insightful=25exp awesome=50exp etc.. I think this mechanic has a lot of potential. From what I'm reading it seems like it hasn't been explored unfortunately.
This would destroy the existing ranks, as each person can only have one rank at a time. So I bet people would get upset.
The forum assigns the highest rank you're eligible for. No one would have 2 ranks, one based on posts and the other based on points, there can be only one.
I'm getting the vibe it's just not worth it, but I mean a solution to that would be to give bonus xp to the higher level players on reset to compensate say a veteran gets like 1000xp bonus on reset nothing enough to set them golden but enough to have the deserved head start, scaling for different levels. Stuff like that would promote good feedback, and overall communication on the forum. just saying
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There is an (Mostly inaccurate) but still partially accurate list of the number of posts required to get each rank that I posted in this thread a few posts down. I do not think we have been given an accurate listing of exactly how much posts are required to reach each rank.
http://polycount.com/discussion/172785/the-flag-button-and-how-it-works
From what I understand the way this works seems to promote spam. Why not level up according to level of appreciate i.e. insightful=25exp awesome=50exp etc.. I think this mechanic has a lot of potential. From what I'm reading it seems like it hasn't been explored unfortunately.
The forum assigns the highest rank you're eligible for. No one would have 2 ranks, one based on posts and the other based on points, there can be only one.
As far as development time goes, we have bigger fish to fry first:
http://polycount.com/discussion/171573/forum-features-wishlist/p1