[quote][b]Posted by:[/b] Cpl Crosseyes [quote]On Bungie's next game I think it would be good if they had pretty much the same ranking system Halo 3 had. Have a handful of playlists for competitive players (Ranked) and social for the casual players. And as far as unlocking armor etc, they would make it so you can unlock everything from the social playlist. The ranking playlists wouldn't unlock anything it would just be there so you can rank up and play with people that are close to your skill level. Halo 2 also had a good ranking system, H3's is very similar to it. Halo 2 owned any game on xbox originals and I believe the ranking system helped with that. [/quote]No no no, Halo 3's was toxic to casual players. It forced casual players into being competitive at some level.[/quote]Is that a bad thing? [quote]IMO Halo 3 had the most popular ranked experience for absolutely terrible reasons. You give anonymous people a skill based ranking against other anonymous people and it bred a really unpleasant online atmosphere. You couldn't escape from it. Lobbies, forums, fileshares... everywhere was filled with people obssesing over their trueskill E-peen. It's probably, in my opinion, why arena failed. Only a very tiny minority cared about their own personal rank aspect and they way they got people to care in 3 was by forcing it on everyone so that you had it whether you wanted it or not. So if Destiny has some form of ranking system involved in it it's a lesser of two evils to keep it isolated and low population for those that want it instead of poisoning the community as a whole to make it more mandatory to avoid being trolled and flamed.[/quote]Such utter nonsense. Selfish people will always find a way to put themselves above others. A rank is nothing more than a statistic which allows you to track your progress against the rest of the entire online population. If a ranking system truly is "toxic" and "poisons the community", then you might as well take out all the other statistics as well so there's no way to prove if a player is better than another without actually playing that person. But that still wouldn't solve your problem. Asshats are always going to find a way to be an asshat, and taking away a perfectly good feature from players who want to track their improvement against the population just to spite those asshats doesn't make a ton of sense. The only thing that truly bothered me about Halo 3 was that you didn't need to maintain your rank once you reached 50. I feel it really stagnated the system, it shouldn't be a drastic change to the point where "You don't play for a week? You start over!", but ranks should naturally degrade if you don't play. [Edited on 11.30.2012 11:09 PM PST]