Wow, this ranking system is exceptionally shit...
I already knew it was bad from seeing the ranking of myself compared to other people around me.
As a beginning player you at first think that maybe they calculate how fast everyone will reach the finish or next buoy based on the current weather forecast or whatever, because the rankings swing so violently. But after a while you notice that this definetly isn't the case.
Some people more than 200Nm behind me were more than 15k ranking ahead of me... And only because they were a tiny bit further south.
I truly couldn't have imagined the ranking system being this shit.
How could they have thought that this would've been a good idea for a ranking system in the first place?
A system that completely ignores exclusions zones and even ignores the fact that you can't sail across land...
It would be terribly easy to either use latitude or longtitude as a way to rank people (based on wether it is a east-west or north-south type of race.
Or they could just use the buoys that are already in the game to determine the ranking, that would already be a hell of a lot better than this ridiculous system they currently have.
Or even better, they could just place a marker along the "supposed ideal line" every so often to make up the ranking.
Rare
