Ranked - Entice players to keep playing

[barbeerian]

I really enjoyed playing ranked this season, the games are an absolute blast! There are a couple of issues I noticed though, some of which have already been brought up on the forums. One is keeping players coming back season after season. The people who ranked out in S1 or S2 basically just wound up with more credits and flags if they ranked out this season, there was no unique reward for them ranking out this season since they already have the Jolly Rogers flag, and plenty of them are already sitting on piles of credits and don't really care about that. I think some unique rewards would really help keep people coming back season after season and make things a little more interesting.

 

Another minor issue is what if people want to keep playing ranked during a given season, I know I'd still love to be playing since I found the battles far more intense than randoms and there's a good chance there are other people out there who want to as well. It removes a lot of really good players from ranked which is a little add seeing as part of the point of ranked is for more skilled players to compete against each other. I think a few changes could really improved the rank battle system and make it even more fun and competitive.

 

The Jolly Rogers is cool, but it doesn't really stand out that much. I think earning permanent pirate camo for your ship would be an awesome reward for reaching rank 1. Each season your most played ship and one ship of your choosing  would earn the permanent camo so there'd be some incentive to come back next season and try to deck out all your favourite ships. I don't know about you, but I'd love to have some ships with all-black paint and skulls plastered on it.

 

Also, what if you could keep playing ranked once you hit rank 1 and had some really awesome rewards for the players who kicked the most butt at rank 1. Keep rank 1 as irrevocable and have a leaderboard setup to track how well people are doing. Since ranked is all about winning give out some juicy rewards to the players who are the best at it. Give players +1 star for every win at rank 1, and say give out some gold or premium time or whatever to the top players at the end of the season. I'd do the same thing for win rate at rank 1 as well. Track wins/losses and reward the best of the best accordingly. I think it'd keep a lot more players interested in playing ranked mode season after season, and really make the matches as competitive as they're gonna get before organized team battles / clan wars comes out.

[LittleWhiteMouse]

I'm playing Ranked Battles this season for three reasons:

 

1. I wanted to write a blog & guide about my experiences.
2. It was fun getting to Rank One last season.  I thought it might be fun to do it again.
3.   I live in abject fear that the one season I don't hit rank one is the one season they finally make good on their promise of an unannounced reward-ship.

[mohawkdriver]

Ranked is frustrating to me because I get so close to the next level then either the team fails or we simply lose.  It's disheartening to watch your stars disappear one by one, making it difficult if not impossible to fight in another ranked battle.  Don't want any thing special, just telling it like it is.

[Batwingsix]

Ranked is frustrating to me because I get so close to the next level then either the team fails or we simply lose.  It's disheartening to watch your stars disappear one by one, making it difficult if not impossible to fight in another ranked battle.  Don't want any thing special, just telling it like it is.

 

I gave up for a while too, then one night I had a streak and made it from 14 to 9 with only a few losses. Not trying my luck until the weekend is over though. Just keep hitting the battle button and take breaks between. 

[centarina]

making to 15 was easy enough  after getting past  first few battles.   from 19-15 was breeze.     now, I don't have my benson yet, so I have to fubuki or kiev.   have mogami  but only 1 battle in it so far.    arp myoko don't have good captain yet    I will get to 14 and take a break till next season when I will be better prepared with ships.

[barbeerian]

Ranked is frustrating to me because I get so close to the next level then either the team fails or we simply lose.  It's disheartening to watch your stars disappear one by one, making it difficult if not impossible to fight in another ranked battle.  Don't want any thing special, just telling it like it is.

 

Gotta just keep plugging away at it. Everyone has losing streaks and it sucks but just take a break if you start to lose to many, then come back to it fresh and generally things improve.

[RedSeaBear]

I played ranked once, second season, made it to rank 4. But after that it was fail teams and just barely wins. So frustrating to work so hard for a win but face defeat because of all the reason people have posted. I would rather play random battles with bad match making then ranked. Personally the rewards don't tempt me to suffer through the toxic fail teams and I value my sanity so no ranked for me. Maybe it rank 5 was a safe rank or there was a way to avoid the lost of a star on a defeat I might try again. Or better yet the option to play with the same team that won the last match, so at least we could learn to work as a team. 

[Lightning_Lad64]

Stuck at rank 14. Had 2 battles today with 80k damage and lost both. 

 

[J30_Reinhardt]

Omg. Paragraphs. Seperated thoughts. Someone has a brain. Squeeee!!! <3

[zilladotexe]

I love ranked matches. No, really, I do. However, it is frustrating as all hell when you're sitting at rank 15 and lose 8 matches in a row because of crappy teammates or crappy matchmaking (example, 10 DDs in a match......).

 

But, I love the teamwork when it does exist. Those few battles where your team communicates and is actually competent almost make up for the sheer number of crappy battles.

[shootieboats]

Even with the 39 million credits from the three seasons, I still have no lines up to Tier X. As long as there are credits, I'll play Ranked.

[Zorwinn100]

I very much enjoy Ranked matches.  It's funny - we (including me) are all in a rush to get to Rank 1, and then when I get there I get a little bored and think "Now what?  I guess it is back to Randoms.  Sigh."

 

Maybe they can create a Rank 1 league that gets unlocked when you Reach rank 1?  It would be a very small population obviously.  Might need to make it a cross-server MM to get enough people playing.  Offer special rewards after winning each match to entice people to play.

 

I also suggest they add a special insignia on the Jolly Roger for each subsequent Rank 1.  Something like the Oak Leaf cluster the military uses to denote 2nd and subsequent decorations.

[TheGirlFromIpanema]

Flags. Also, I want to be able to fly multiple flags at the same time, shows people things I have accomplished.

[Gamma_383]

ranked battles has made me sorry 

1 win

9 loss

i dont like ranked battles

because i dont win

i wish i had a more positive post but i dont

[barbeerian]

I very much enjoy Ranked matches.  It's funny - we (including me) are all in a rush to get to Rank 1, and then when I get there I get a little bored and think "Now what?  I guess it is back to Randoms.  Sigh."

 

Maybe they can create a Rank 1 league that gets unlocked when you Reach rank 1?  It would be a very small population obviously.  Might need to make it a cross-server MM to get enough people playing.  Offer special rewards after winning each match to entice people to play.

 

I also suggest they add a special insignia on the Jolly Roger for each subsequent Rank 1.  Something like the Oak Leaf cluster the military uses to denote 2nd and subsequent decorations.

 

Or maybe increase the flag size for each Rank 1 achieved. Love to see someone with a 300ft Jolly Roger blocking out the sun lol.

[_Madcows_]

This is my first season for ranked, and if the que times were not so bad for me i'd play it almost exclusively given it seems to actually have semi-sensible team play 'most,' of the time. Kinda awesome for credits as I seem to do a respectable amount of damage in this compared to randoms. The bugger for me is that been from Australia, most of thr time im looking at ~25ish people on at any 1 time in ranked which makes waits sometimes a little frustrating. For rewards for repeat players/?offenders why not have like in WoT has some form of barrel marking thing, except maybe given its ships stripes on your funnel, or maybe access to a unique module (not OP but unique) to put on one of your favourite ships? Would be funny to have access to a blimp you could put up say once for accuracy or cutting down planes (of course rather easy to avoid but hey, its kinda unique-ish...)