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Head on shooting and Ranking 6 years 10 months ago #361993

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Well said Sir Wumper, was not happy at all to go from Vice Air Marshall to Brig General after switch to Elite, felt like a slap in the face!!

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I play God because it's exactly that. A game. I designed it. I could even make a game where you begin dead and then your whole game is becoming alive. Or where you are rank 81 and your whole target is to lower to rank 1. In fact, it's not called God, it's called game designer. Not sure why you would say that's playing God but anyway. I would suggest to try Populous, I loved that game as a kid, where you are a God and have to create a civilization. It became one of the best games ever made (Clash of Clans and a whole set of new games on that genre are based on it).

Going back to the subject, nobody lost their rank. If you were rank 31 (which was called MORAF back then), you were still rank 31. Only the names changed. Names have changed multiple times during the years. To begin with, the first versions had no rank names, only numbers, so you would be rank 1-12. No name attached to it.
Then names were added to those 10 ranks or so.
Then the ranks grew to 21 and I had to made up names for them (yeah, I played God as a game designer again, it's kind of a mandatory requirement to do so when you design the game). There is NO thirty one possible ranks on the military so I had to made them up. Adding things like Aspirant 1, Aspirant Level 2, Wing Commander 1, Wing Commander 2... and everyone adapted.
At some point I increased the ranks to 31 with more and more fake names.
then more ranks were added up to 47 when World War 2 was introduced. Of course, it was impossible to add more names without rewriting the old ones. I had to look up several sites to try to come with some realistic sounding names to fill the ranks, even merging names from different armies across the world. Honestly, if you want rank 31 to be still named MORAF, then 32, 35, 41, 42 what would be the names for the new ranks? Space Master? Aspirant Owner Of The World?
Sure, I can go back to 31 = MORAF, then give me new names after MORAF to represent level 32 to 47 and I'll be happy to incorporate them.

For everyone else, everybody knows nobody was demoted. It was just names changed. You were rank 31, you were still rank 31. Names just adapt to new versions. Heck, I may even have to change them again or translate them to multiple languages so that MORAF would mean absolutely nothing in Chinese, Russian or Spanish and each language would have its own name (which by the way, it's exactly how it is in real life). Then if you switched languages from English MORAF to Spanish WHO-KNOWS-WHAT, that person would complain because they are not MORAF any more? They are the same rank, just different name.

I just made the decision as the game designer that MORAF should remain the name for the highest rank. If you prefer MORAF to be back to rank 31... so be it. Now there are 47 ranks. If the game keeps increasing in size and missions, I may need to add more ranks, let's say to 57. Then what? People that were rank 31, 3 years ago, should automatically get rank 57? No. Those new ranks should not have any names whatsoever because MORAF is owned by rank 31? Nope. Or maybe, if you are able to come up with 20 or so new names that sound better than MORAF you can keep adding ranks.

As for your comparison with the navy that you are never demoted, that's not true at all. If you look at the history of the army, names for ranks have changed constantly. There were not always the same names and ranks than now. In fact, whole new divisions have been created (airplane pilots did not exist in 1800s) and divisions merged or discontinued, with all their ranks gone and replaced by different ones. Exactly like in the game. Did people like it? Obviously some soldiers did not. Just search for some documentation on the subject. People get attached to a "rank name" not a "rank number", so even if you as a soldier are exactly in the same position on the ladder, some would complain. Most people do not like change, especially in the military. But the generals had no other options but to adapt to the times and create those ranks, merge units and adjust. See the similarities?

Now back to playing God. Version 1.0.73 was just released on the announcement section. I added weather. I may even throw in some lighting at players when I'm not a in a good mood.
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Space master of the world,sounds good to me.
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Bannerless and naked. Whatever...
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Lol :P

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oh and going back the memory line. There was a time when MORAF was rank 14. Here there is, a post when I gave "names" to the numbers. Over 5 years ago.
dogfightelite.com/index.php/forum/4-announcements/14-ranks#14
and here was the announcement before the new ranks were added (an incredible 14 ranks, raised from I don't even remember, 7 ranks?)
www.dogfightplay.com/index.php/forum/4-a...ments/1158-new-ranks

*420* was the highest ranked player back then. She complained about the name change but just in a funny way because she understood. Whole post here:
dogfightelite.com/index.php/forum/2-goss...-think-of-the-update

The continuation post of Rank 31 when it was increased from 14 and explaining exactly what I wrote here. How do I name them because they were so many? Also I pointed to 2 new airplanes: the albatros d3 and the nieuport!
dogfightplay.com/index.php/forum/2-gossi...ng-system-and-advice

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LIGHTNING, COOL! guess you can hit anyone you want since your God and all,LOL

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zuperman wrote: Going back to the subject, nobody lost their rank. If you were rank 31 (which was called MORAF back then), you were still rank 31. Only the names changed.


That's not necessarily true. Those of us that started in the beta version lost rank and had to climb back up. I was level 31 (MORAF) in DF 1, but jumping over to Elite myself and others dropped down. I went looking but can't find a post where I mentioned what level I ended up with after jumping over to Elite, but it was under level 20. Thus a lot of us lost a lot of levels and points when moving to Elite.

Here I leveled up to 19
dogfightplay.com/index.php/forum/gunners...on?start=7950#325005

Here's one of HorribleBreast getting close to level 18, and he was a MORAF in DF1 way before I made it
dogfightplay.com/index.php/forum/gunners...on?start=8010#326677

Here's a photo of me in DF1, as a Level 31 MORAF with 1,566.045 points
dogfightplay.com/index.php/forum/gunners...on?start=7800#321080
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{GI} E*A*G*L*E wrote:

zuperman wrote: Going back to the subject, nobody lost their rank. If you were rank 31 (which was called MORAF back then), you were still rank 31. Only the names changed.


That's not necessarily true. Those of us that started in the beta version lost rank and had to climb back up. I was level 31 (MORAF) in DF 1, but jumping over to Elite myself and others dropped down. I went looking but can't find a post where I mentioned what level I ended up with after jumping over to Elite, but it was under level 20. Thus a lot of us lost a lot of levels and points when moving to Elite.

Here I leveled up to 19
dogfightplay.com/index.php/forum/gunners...on?start=7950#325005

Here's one of HorribleBreast getting close to level 18, and he was a MORAF in DF1 way before I made it
dogfightplay.com/index.php/forum/gunners...on?start=8010#326677

Here's a photo of me in DF1, as a Level 31 MORAF with 1,566.045 points
dogfightplay.com/index.php/forum/gunners...on?start=7800#321080


Yeah that was at the beginning since I didn't want to create new levels and stick to 31 I did the calculation by points but it turned out to be confusing and many complaining about demotion so it was rolled back to as before and just added new ranks up to 48. In any case that was a mistake not something by design. At the end whoever had rank 31 at df1 also got it at Elite when everything was fixed
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Zup, throw lightning if you must, but enough with the Populous coming out when you were a kid . . . ya really know how to make a guy feel old. :P
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Forgive me Joaquim, but I should have been a long time above level 40, my planes came to DF 2, however my level and the patent did not come because I was played DF 1 until the end of the availability. If I find some old video, you can compare the old and the current, I usually record my games in DF and usually spend, buying in the game. I sincerely have been in the game for 3 years but I have NEVER received a response or feedback from you. It will be amazing if you answer me. Lol. I know that you are quite busy and can not respond to everyone and everyone only getting improvements but you have surprised us positively but we have really waited patiently and suffered together with you when you are in the process of changes and updates.
My controls are flicking in the new update, jostick game in Windows 10 already updated in May. Sometimes in the bomber or in the tank the aim is only pointing to the sky, nor taking the camera solves, I do not know what happens.
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So essencially the problem was you ran out of rank names Zup?
Maybe the North Koreans can help you with that.
Take a leaf out of Kim Jong-un's book.

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Yes!!! I love North Korean titles!! And we can get crap loads of medals!!!





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Uh oh!
You don't meddle with Kim Jong-Un !!!!!

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TXLAWMAN wrote: Yes!!! I love North Korean titles!! And we can get crap loads of medals!!!


Damn! Is that decoration or armour?
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TXLAWMAN wrote: Yes!!! I love North Korean titles!! And we can get crap loads of medals!!!


Thanks for the laugh today Tx! This is hilarious!








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[NLR] McFate wrote:

TXLAWMAN wrote: Yes!!! I love North Korean titles!! And we can get crap loads of medals!!!


Damn! Is that decoration or armour?


Don't laugh at him.
The guy is a war veteran !
Those are all covers over the bullet holes in his uniform.
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Gannet wrote:

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TXLAWMAN wrote: Yes!!! I love North Korean titles!! And we can get crap loads of medals!!!


Damn! Is that decoration or armour?


Don't laugh at him.
The guy is a war veteran !
Those are all covers over the bullet holes in his uniform.


Oh, well maybe he's one of those laggers who you fill with lead but he still won't go down.

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