cokakola wrote:Medals would just take away from the general fun of the game because players would be worried about their stupid stats rather than having fun. Plus ranked servers cost a lot, and the work put into a medals system might be in vain if there are a lack of ranked servers.
A ranked server would cost no more then a non-ranked server, if they implemented their own ranking system. However, you would just need an extra server to send the player statistics to. At least, that is how I think it works. I could be wrong entirely.
Or, it could be server-side, so the server you are on stores the player data, meaning you would have different ranking and such in the different servers you go to.
In my opinion, there should be a ranking system, but not neccessarily by points. Rather, perhaps people get voted into the position by the common players on the forums, then get the nice little shiny badge in-game. Not that it really does anything.