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[DoSe420]

Time aside, I'd imagine it would also be difficult, since ratings change from country to country - not only in terms of age, but also style. For example, the US ratings M and Teen do not apply in the UK, and European countries differ yet again.

Ratings differ yea, but if you know the ratings for each country a simple case and replace could work to display each countries rating based off just having the esrb (US rating)

[PSXtreme_]

Actually the easier way would be to have the user's point of origin be the factor on which database used...which would encompass an enormous amount of time inputting databases for each region/country. It would use up a lot of time and memory to have multiple tables, but it would be the easiest way to implement. If it was an important feature it might be worth the trouble, but for something minor, would you be willing to do it when there are more pressing issues at hand?

[Hitman]

Your percent vs average game percent, it also depends on what the average percent is too.

That's interesting. Doesn't make me feel as bad to know others sucked just as much.

[Dreakon139]

My original goal was to try and platinum every game I had. Now it just seems like an easier and more obtainable task to just get all of my games to S and A rankings.

[Roswellian23]

Yay, go me....I have all S ranks.

[Sidewinder]

I agree with a lot of people here about the "D" rating, I think it would be good for the 0% - 5% mark as this would definitely be a fail.

Also the rank colours would change to as follows:

A - Green
B - Yellow
C - Orange
D - Red

[d3m0nd00d]

"‘S-Rank’ is a term used in games, most commonly awarded at the end of stages with graded missions or side objectives.

Originally created in Japan where anything below grade ‘C’ was considered a failure. The 'S-Rank' allowed for a wider range of obtainable grades and thus player motivation, meaning that it was soon adopted by western developers who realized that the ‘S-Rank’ was much cooler than the boring ‘A’. An A rank is commonly obtained by getting a 90% to 95%. If the player is flawless or achieves perfection in something, it qualifies as an S . Many people have wondered what the S stands for… Special? Super? No one knows for sure."

http://www.giantbomb...s-rank/92-2962/

"S" stand for shit-yea. Think I saw that on a wiki somewhere.

[spankyNspronkle]

Haha I agree with the D/F...I shouldn't be getting C's on all my 0%'s .

0% should be F for no effort being put in!

[Sly Ripper]

I agree with a lot of people here about the "D" rating, I think it would be good for the 0% - 5% mark as this would definitely be a fail.

Also the rank colours would change to as follows:

A - Green
B - Yellow
C - Orange
D - Red

I've already said the ranks aren't based on fixed percentages.

[Sidewinder]

I've already said the ranks aren't based on fixed percentages.

But would it be possible to introduce, say, a "D" rank for a fixed 0%? I know the other rank percentages aren't fixed but I think (like the "S" rank) a fixed 0% rank would be a nice touch

[Brenden]

I think a couple of more ranks (D/E) should be implemented, it would make the system a lot better imo.

[ImperatorA3]

But would it be possible to introduce, say, a "D" rank for a fixed 0%? I know the other rank percentages aren't fixed but I think (like the "S" rank) a fixed 0% rank would be a nice touch

Yeah that would be nice.

[Lil_Mermaid_Girl]

I agree with a default D rank for games that are at 0%. I don't think it will turn people away from the site because they don't like to see that, if it's at )% and on their profile I'm sure they realise it's not much to brag about and a bad grading right lol?

I was just looking at the profiles, and I think it would be nice to be able to sort our games by grade also, in the same we can by percentage. So for grade it would be A's at the top sorted by percentag within A's. I'd like to be able to group all my lower graded ones together and see if there's any I can improve, be nice to see them all together.

[PSXtreme_]

I agree with a default D rank for games that are at 0%. I don't think it will turn people away from the site because they don't like to see that, if it's at )% and on their profile I'm sure they realise it's not much to brag about and a bad grading right lol?

I was just looking at the profiles, and I think it would be nice to be able to sort our games by grade also, in the same we can by percentage. So for grade it would be A's at the top sorted by percentag within A's. I'd like to be able to group all my lower graded ones together and see if there's any I can improve, be nice to see them all together.

You can already sort them by percentage completed...which is almost the same thing.

[Lil_Mermaid_Girl]

You can already sort them by percentage completed...which is almost the same thing.

I have B's thrown in with my A's and C's in with the area with most of my B's. I agree this wouldn't be a super high priority, but I'd still like to see it someday. Instead of sorting maybe we could click on a letter and it take a new page that lists only our games that are ranked with that letter.

[civilred1]

I think there definitely needs to be more ranks because the fact that you can get an "A" with 35% doesn't really tell you much about your performance in the game. Also, an average ranking would be pretty cool, because just having the Average Completion doesn't account for the difficulty of the games in question

[Sly Ripper]

I think there definitely needs to be more ranks because the fact that you can get an "A" with 35% doesn't really tell you much about your performance in the game. Also, an average ranking would be pretty cool, because just having the Average Completion doesn't account for the difficulty of the games in question

If getting an A doesn't tell you that you're doing better than average then why would any other ranks?

[civilred1]

If getting an A doesn't tell you that you're doing better than average then why would any other ranks?

No, I mean if an A can be earned by achieving 35%, then it doesn't tell you where you are in all that much detail as it hands the award to people who have a completion level anywhere within a 65% range. If you added D, E and F grades for example, then you could award the A grade at higher completion levels, giving greater precision to you at a glance

[Azakos]

No, I mean if an A can be earned by achieving 35%, then it doesn't tell you where you are in all that much detail as it hands the award to people who have a completion level anywhere within a 65% range. If you added D, E and F grades for example, then you could award the A grade at higher completion levels, giving greater precision to you at a glance

If the A was at 35%, I don't imagine it changing much after adding a D, E, and F. If you take a look earlier into the thread (actually, it's quoted higher up on this page) you'll see the reasoning for it. It's to match a popular ranking system, so it's traditional in a sense.

[civilred1]

If the A was at 35%, I don't imagine it changing much after adding a D, E, and F. If you take a look earlier into the thread (actually, it's quoted higher up on this page) you'll see the reasoning for it. It's to match a popular ranking system, so it's traditional in a sense.

The rankings are based on the %age earned by the player against the average %age for the game. If there are more ranks then you can have narrower bands for each grade, so less variation over the course of the grade. As we have 4 ranks, S, A, B and C then it seems reasonable to assume that each rank represents 25% of players. (S for the top 25%, C for the bottom 25% etc.) By adding just one extra grade, the boundaries for each grade change so that instead each grade represents 20% of the players. So therefore the more grades there are available, the clearer your standing within the community. If, say, 4 more grades were added, then those receiving a 'G' would know that they were in the bottom 12.5% of players whereas at the moment those who would be in that band (and have 'C' ranks) only know that they are in the bottom 25% of players. Notice that under this system, the 'C' rank would apply to those who would have a low 'A' currently.
This assumes that the grades are allocated with an equal number of players per grade, but I trust you get my point