Multiplayer ranks demystified
It turns out the multiplayer ranks actually have names; they just aren’t used anywhere in the interface (yet?). I figured this out by working off the theme of one of the images whose link was provided to me. Here we go:
Rookie
<1800
Class A
1800-1999
Expert
2000-2199
Master
2200-2399
Grandmaster
2400+ or 2400-2599?
Former Champion
Previously ranked #1, not currently
Champion
Ranked #1
So we’re left with a few questions here. Is there anything above Grandmaster? We won’t know for quite a while. Nobody has even hit Grandmaster yet, and based on the size of the community and how the point scoring system works, it might be impossible for anyone to break 2600.
I wasn’t able to figure out the name of the two star rank or ex-champion; all of the obvious guesses yielded 404s. Try some guesses yourself though; we should be able to crack them. Just append it to the images directory (which unfortunately has directory listing turned off). For example, the champion image is located at http://gpgnet.gaspowered.com/chatimages/champion.png. Figure out the names of the images for the two missing ranks and we’ll know the names of them.
Update: Thanks to DeadLegion for figuring out the name of the “Former Champion” rank. Now we just need to crack two stars and we’re done.
Update 2: Thanks to Zulan for figuring out the name of the two star rank. It’s “Class A”. I wouldn’t have guessed. At least we’ve filled out all of the regular rankings now.
March 28th, 2007 at 12:47 pm
2 stars is probably intermediate, if I were to guess.
March 28th, 2007 at 1:19 pm
Nope, doesn’t work. http://gpgnet.gaspowered.com/chatimages/intermediate.png doesn’t exist. We’ll know we have the right name when we figure out where the two-star image file is located.
March 28th, 2007 at 1:45 pm
http://gpgnet.gaspowered.com/chatimages/FormerChampion.png
March 28th, 2007 at 1:58 pm
Havent figured out what the “intermediate” level is, I will find out as soon as I get home though.
March 28th, 2007 at 2:03 pm
Tried:
Able
Adept
Average
Competent
Decent
Excellent
Experienced
Fine
Good
GoodPlayer
Great
Intermediate
Moderate
Outstanding
Proficient
Proven
Rated
Skilled
Skillful
Super
Superior
Supurb
Talented
Top
preExpert
March 28th, 2007 at 2:07 pm
In addition to some of those, I’ve tried veteran, major, sergeant, and neophyte. No luck yet. The rank names do seem to be the same as those used in Chess rankings, hence why I tried Neophyte ..
March 28th, 2007 at 4:10 pm
Made a page about rating in the wiki. http://wiki.supcomtalk.com/index.php?title=Rating
There is also BetaChamp that only prepare has. :)
March 28th, 2007 at 5:23 pm
http://gpgnet.gaspowered.com/chatimages/classa.png
and there is:
http://gpgnet.gaspowered.com/chatimages/admin.png
March 28th, 2007 at 5:46 pm
And one more that I’ve seen in chat. (Butters uses this one). http://gpgnet.gaspowered.com/chatimages/thq.png
I’m guessing it’s for THQ employees or representatives who are not attached to GPG.
March 28th, 2007 at 5:50 pm
Man Zulan just beat me to it. :) Here is one more:
http://gpgnet.gaspowered.com/chatimages/system.png
March 28th, 2007 at 7:04 pm
Were you going to guess classa? If so, how? I wouldn’t have thought of that in a long, long time.
March 28th, 2007 at 7:13 pm
I used a program called Ethereal which is a packet monitoring program. I simply just looked at all the HTTP GET requests GPGNet was sending. They were:
Expert.png
Master.png
ClassA.png
gpgnet.png (oddly this doesnt exist)
system.png
thq.png
admin.png
betachamp.png
It only requests on a need to know basis. So there was no request for grandmaster.png for instance (because no one is a grandmaster).
March 28th, 2007 at 7:35 pm
Ethereal? You sure you don’t mean Wireshark? (It was renamed.) I was going to try that at some point, but manual guessing ended up being easier for the simple ones. Not sure if I would’ve gotten ClassA without “cheating”, as it were, though.
March 29th, 2007 at 9:19 am
Of course I didn’t guess classa, I’m not DOSing gpgnet ;-)
March 29th, 2007 at 9:23 am
.. actually in chess they call “1800-1999 Amateur, Class A” (see http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elo-Zahl , not found in the english Version)