Sunnylexie
12-04-2014, 06:47 PM
From what I can see, once you get something to the "excellent" mark there's no point in further improving it. Really sad for me because my motherfucking opposite-side-of-the-globe poor ping makes my rates and time online the only factors I can influence. This week, I made it to 144 hours and 4.99 but my placement is still at where it used to be with 99 hours and 4.93. Le sigh.
audritwo
12-04-2014, 06:48 PM
awe and you work your ass off. That blows :c
Magical_Hoohah
12-27-2014, 07:08 PM
So... I got some hard evidence that the My Ranking section is not exactly truthful when it comes to the placement algorithm.
My tech and ratings must be very consistent, because the only statistic on my Rankings page that ever changes is my time online. My round trip time might fluctuate a bit, but never more than 5ms in either direction. My time online is laughably bad, like really, seriously bad. Everything else is good or excellent.
If my time online drops to 0, I end up in a very specific offline placement - it's the same every time. It's not terrible, but it's not great. If I have any hours at all on my time online, it will boost me higher.
Today after cut off, I got an interesting placement surprise. As of last week, my time online was shitty, and now they've calculated that it went *down* to shitty-2 hours. Nothing else changed on the Rankings page. And yet, my placement got a pretty substantial boost (again, checking offline, so it's not a matter of who's online now). /:O It turns out that this week, I've been killing it in terms of % in paid. Of course, that also means that my $/hour online was better than before, too.
Based on My Ranking, I should have fallen lower. Since I went up, it leads me to believe that either % in paid or $/hour significantly outranks the importance of time online. It doesn't really surprise me, but it's nice to see proof.