How Ranking Works »
Authored by SpawnPoint on 2007-11-13 05:42:12
Players are tracked by Unique ID. Unique IDs are calculated from your Half-Life CD Key. You should never disclose your CD Key to another player. The CD Key-to-Unique ID calculation algorithm is one-way, however, so it is quite safe to disclose your Unique ID.
A player may have more than one name. On the Player Rankings pages, players are shown with the most recent name they used in the game. If you click on a player's name, the Player Details page will show you a list of all other names that this player uses, if any, under the Aliases section (if the player has not used any other names,the Aliases section will not be displayed).
Your name may be listed more than once if somebody else (with a different Unique ID) uses the same name.
You can use the Search function to find a player by name or Unique ID.
2. How is the "points" rating calculated?
A new player has a set amount (usually 1000) of points. Every time you make a kill, you gain a certain amount of points depending on a) the victim's points rating, and b) the weapon you used. If you kill someone with a higher points rating than you, then you gain more points than if you kill someone with a lower points rating than you. Therefore, killing newbies will not get you as far as killing the #1 player. And if you kill someone with your knife, you gain more points than if you kill them with a rifle, for example.
When you are killed, you lose a certain amount of points, which again depends on the points rating of your killer and the weapon they used (you don't lose as many points for being killed by the #1 player with a rifle than you do for being killed by a low ranked player with a knife). This makes moving up the rankings easier, but makes staying in the top spots harder.
Specifically, the equations are:
Killer Points = Killer Points + (Victim Points / Killer Points)
× Weapon Modifier × 5
Victim Points = Victim Points - (Victim Points / Killer Points)
× Weapon Modifier × 5
Plus, the following point bonuses are available for completing objectives in games:
Game Player Player Team World Player
Counter-Strike:
Source No No Yes No All Counter- 0 Terrorist+2
Terrorists eliminated
Counter-Strike:
Source No No Yes No All Terrorists 0 Counter-Terrorist+2
eliminated
Counter-Strike:
Source Yes No No No Assassinate the +10
VIP
Counter-Strike:
Source Yes No No No Become the +1
VIP
Counter-Strike:
Source No No Yes No Counter-Terrorists 0 Counter-Terrorist+5
defused the bomb
Counter-Strike:
Source No No Yes No Counter-Terrorists 0 Counter-Terrorist+10
rescued all the
hostages
Counter-Strike:
Source Yes No No No Defuse the Bomb +10
Counter-Strike:
Source Yes No No No Drop the Bomb -2
Counter-Strike:
Source Yes No No No Kill a Hostage -15 Counter-Terrorist+1
Counter-Strike:
Source Yes No No No Pick up the Bomb +2
Counter-Strike:
Source Yes No No No Plant the Bomb +10 Terrorist +2
Counter-Strike:
Source Yes No No No Rescue a Hostage +5 Counter-Terrorist+1
Counter-Strike:
Source Yes No No No Spawn with the Bomb +2
Counter-Strike:
Source Yes No No No Start Defusing the 0
Bomb With a
Defuse Kit
Counter-Strike:
Source Yes No No No Start Defusing 0
the Bomb Without
a Defuse Kit
Counter-Strike:
Source No No Yes No Terrorists bombed 0 Terrorist +5
the target
Counter-Strike:
Source Yes No No No Touch a Hostage 0
Counter-Strike:
Source No No Yes No VIP escaped 0 Counter-Terrorist +10
Note The player who triggers an action may receive both the player reward and the team reward.
3. What are all the weapon point modifiers?
Weapon point modifiers are used to determine how many points you should gain or lose when you make a kill or are killed by another player. Higher modifiers indicate that more points will be gained when killing with that weapon (and similarly, more points will be lost when being killed by that weapon). Modifiers generally range from 0.00 to 2.00.
Counter-Strike: Source Smoke grenade Smoke Grenade 5.00
Counter-Strike: Source Flash bang Flash bang 5.00
Counter-Strike: Source Knife Bundeswehr Advanced 2.00
Combat Knife
Counter-Strike: Source He grenade High Explosive Grenade 1.80
Counter-Strike: Source Tmp Steyr Tactical Machine Pistol 1.50
Counter-Strike: Source p228 Sig Sauer P-228 1.50
Counter-Strike: Source mac10 Ingram MAC-10 1.50
Counter-Strike: Source Five seven FN Five-Seven 1.50
Counter-Strike: Source Usp H&K USP .45 Tactical 1.40
Counter-Strike: Source Glock Glock 18 Select Fire 1.40
Counter-Strike: Source Elite Dual Beretta 96G Elite 1.40
Counter-Strike: Source ump45 H&K UMP45 1.20
Counter-Strike: Source p90 FN P90 1.20
Counter-Strike: Source mp5navy H&K MP5-Navy 1.20
Counter-Strike: Source m3 Benelli M3 Super 90 Combat 1.20
Counter-Strike: Source m249 M249 PARA Light Machine Gun 1.20
Counter-Strike: Source Deagle Desert Eagle .50AE 1.20
Counter-Strike: Source xm1014 Benelli/H&K M4 Super 90 XM1014 1.10
Counter-Strike: Source Scout Steyr Scout 1.10
Counter-Strike: Source Galil Galil 1.10
Counter-Strike: Source sg552 Sig Sauer SG-552 Commando 1.00
Counter-Strike: Source m4a1 Colt M4A1 Carbine 1.00
Counter-Strike: Source Famas Fusil Automatique 1.00
Counter-Strike: Source Awp Arctic Warfare Magnum (Police) 1.00
Counter-Strike: Source Aug Steyr Aug 1.00
Counter-Strike: Source ak47 Kalashnikov AK-47 1.00
Counter-Strike: Source sg550 Sig SG-550 Sniper 0.80
Counter-Strike: Source g3sg1 H&K G3/SG1 Sniper Rifle 0.80
Bots: -
Please note that you do not GAIN any points for killing a BOT. Nor do you LOSE any points for being killed by a BOT.
Also please note that the points system only starts recording points when there are at least SIX players on the server.
Happy Fragging.
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