How does the PXO ranking system work?
The scoring in a nutshell: Against an equally ranked pilot, you gain .52 points for a kill and lose .5 points for a death. These values are scaled by the rank of the other pilots you are fighting – so killing someone of a lower rank is worth less than killing someone of a higher rank. The formula looks something like this: ((difference in ranks) * 0.052) + .52)) The ranks are just values from 1-9. D3 readme states: For games played on Parallax Online (PXO), Descent 3 supports a ranking system that computes a lifetime rank for each player. This system is similar to the rankings used in chess; here are some of the features of this system: • New players start at 400. • Your ranking will increase with each win and decrease with each loss, but will increase more if you beat a player with a higher ranking than you, and will decrease more if you lose to a player with a lower ranking. • The numerical rankings correspond to named ranks. Note that it may take a very long time to reach the higher
