Thread:Smash The Echidna/@comment-32220816-20170609104810/@comment-1942179-20170610214545

I dunno man, but that's dancing around the main point I was trying to make earlier. I wasn't planning on going into detail about this yet but let me explain up to 3 reasons why I am not kosher with this. There are some unspoken/unwritten rules and things I should have better elaborated on the Blitz Pit's page that I'll have to go over with here.


 * 1) The age limit for registered fighters at the Blitz Pit is either 14 or 15. I had not fully decided on it, but I was actually leaning towards 15 years old. Why? Because if it were 14, then Smash would have joined first chance he got; instead he waited until after his 15th birthday before registering. He was also known to be the youngest fighter in the pit.

This makes him joining at 14 very dicey, but since nothing was set in stone I let it slide. The problem is how quickly he goes from rank E to rank A in the same year.


 * 2) Now that I look, I see that the ranking system is very highly outdated and that is actually my fault. When I wrote that up, it was still mostly experimental and I hadn't quite put it into play in the series yet. Two wins putting you up a rank makes things far too easy and I can see exactly how you exploited that to make Max one step away from S-rank. As you may have already guessed, I'd completely forgotten about how much it takes to rank up and I began to make it much, much harder.  My point was that it took Smash several years to reach A rank and he's still has a total of 13 Mobian years of training and experience over Max's 19 1/2 months.

The ranking system I've been working toward is much more comparable to Splatoon's ranked battle system. Each victory gives you a certain amount of points; gain enough and you'll move up to the next rank. Each loss detracts points, and losing too many will fall back a rank. The higher the rank, the less point rewards and higher point reductions get. The opposite is true for lower ranks.

With this system, the stakes are much higher and fighters have to work harder to earn their keep. It's also with this system that in order to make it up to the step under S-rank, where Max is, he'd have to have a perfect win record with like 10 battles a day to even come close to A-rank in that short period of time. It doesn't matter how much you train or how much of a prodigy he is; to make it even further than that is physically impossible without cheating or being some sorta demigod or something.


 * 3) Most importantly, I don't think you're considering the fact that everyone else in the Blitz Pit are all seasoned, experienced fighters who also train every day. A lot of them even still give Smash trouble. They're not weaklings or pushovers that you can just mow down flawlessly. Even with the two wins per rank rule still up, he'd still have to work pretty darn hard to get that close to S-Rank.

In closing, I apologize for not being as clear and up to date as I should have been in regards to the Blitz Pit, but I wasn't expecting anyone to seriously try to work their way in as a registered fighter.