Quote Originally Posted by Nytes View Post
I agree, there should be a derank. I don't think it should be as simply as "you're out of stars, fall down 1" but maybe a "you're out of stars, if you lose 4 outta the next 5, you derank. People get on strings of bad luck. Maybe thats even to easy, maybe it's 3 outta next 5......but there needs to be a way to force people to try. I think linking rank to job in conjuction with this fix might just do that.
That would be a pretty solid system to work off of. I'd also expand the amount of points you can win and lose based on total point discrepancy as well, to make losing games in Crystal potentially more harmful to your rating. Getting into and maintaining Crystal status should be meaningful. Making it so that Crystals can only face against other Crystals and you can de-rank out of Crystal (I would start people over at Diamond 5 with no stars, even) would make it more competitive and make Crystal, at least, be slightly more effective for measuring player skill levels.

I definitely don't like that Crystal status is basically a freebie if you just play enough games and/or get enough lucky streaks. That's something that definitely needs to change.