[quote][b]Posted by:[/b] bravo123 Very informative. I still hate trueskill though. It shouldn't matter how good you used to be. Your trueskill should all be about how good you are now. Winning 10 matches in a row should make at least some effect on your rank. This is my first account and if you look, I play Halo on an off, just recently starting to play a lot. So when I first started playing I lost quite a bit. However, now I'm a lot better and consistently win lots of matches. But I've maxed at a skill of 29 because my old stats are bringing me down. That's not right. I was in a party for quite a while and I went up 1 rank, while my friend who was on a new account went up 17 ranks. Sure, he's a lot lower ranked and I understand him going up a lot, but by the end of the day he was barely below me. I could've started a new account and gone way past my highest rank right now, but the system doesn't allow it. That's why so many people start up new accounts, because their old ones will always be hampered by their first matches. And that's also the reason why there's so few legit 50's now. Trueskill doesn't really show your "true" skill in the present, it's more like "CareerSkill". Halo 2 had it right. Halo 3 doesn't.[/quote]Not 100% true. If you show significant improvement, you will go up. I've taken accounts "rank locked" at various levels and got them up with winning about 80% of the time. In other words, 4-8 straight wins per skill level. This is about how many it took to move 1 in H2 once you got 25 and up. The only time this isn't true is if you are playing in a mixed skill party where you teammates are more than 10 skill levels apart from you or in lists with a very low player pool where you cannot find quality matches against peeps of equal or higher skill level.