At 10/22/04 01:33 PM, ramagi wrote:
At 10/22/04 12:35 PM, D0GMA wrote:
If any change is going to occur, it would most likely be in adding a few middling ranks to the BPs, which would push the requirements for the higher ranks up, and change the VP% scaling. Beyond that, there's not much that's feasible without a complete overhaul of a system that's worked fine up until now.
Not going to happen. Even if there were to be more ranks added the max Bonus precentage would be 60%. That came right from the admins.
I presumed max was going to be 60%, that was why I was talking about inserting ranks and said "and change the VP scaling" ... meaning that on the way to SC and 60% things wouldn't be the same.
By inserting something like say a 5-star General and Field Marshal between General and SC you can bump up the requirement for SC without affecting the VP values.
Instead of (correct values quoted, not the FAQ numbers):
22 19,500-21,499 44% Elite Guard Brigadier General
23 21,500-23,499 46% Elite Guard Major General
24 23,500-25,499 48% Elite Guard Lieutenant General
25 25,500-29,999 55% Elite Guard General
26 30,000 + 60% Elite Guard Supreme Commander
you get:
22 19,500-21,499 44% Elite Guard Brigadier General
23 21,500-23,499 46% Elite Guard Major General
24 23,500-25,499 48% Elite Guard Lieutenant General
25 25,500-29,999 51% Elite Guard General
26 30,000-37,499 54% Elite Guard 5-Star General
27 37,500-49,999 57% Elite Guard Field Marshall
28 50,000 + 60% Elite Guard Supreme Commander
Three other ranks could readily be similarly stuffed in the lower ranks, further increasing the SC requirement, and by dropping the +% to 2 across the board it would still not force the VP bonus above 60.
The real problem with any idea like this is that it penalizes people like Crono and Joe, who are still here, but stopped BPing since they already had the final rank.
Repost:
(D0GMAsaid real cool stuff)
(Level 30 XP - 400)/21 = level split
((Target level - 9) * level split) + 400 = level requirement
More levels increases the denominator of 21, but does exactly nothing else.
Ok I like you fomula...looks like the one I made ages ago.
LOL wish I knew about that earlier; it would have saved me the hassle of trying to figure out the math behind the levels. I knew it had to be something fairly simple, but I kept getting sidetracked because of the variable increases.
If there were 50 levels. made today.(the underline represents it repeats those number over and over)
(17616-400)/21=419.902439
(23-9)*419.902439+400=5887.634
Using those number I would be past level 23. I would accually be level 35.
Heh ... finally you saved me from doing the math. What you worked out would have me at 22 ^^
At 10/22/04 01:43 PM, EKRegulus wrote:
They could add higher ranks for people that are already egsc without adding anything to the vp.
Interesting idea ... but if you're already Supreme how do you go up? IF any alterations were made, your idea would be the easiest to implement. The trouble is, it doesn't really do anything except add icons (just like adding more levels), so why bother?