ELO and Skill level

[NoFaTe]

"Skill" in BC2 (not elo) has a cap of 200 and starting value of 0.

BTW "Skill" ingame is "level" in the API. As it is calculated by the backend and not by the server, contrary to elo, it is zero for everybody because NoFaTe doesn't have that implemented.

I think skill might be calculated with KDA, spm, sqapm (squad actions per minute) and maybe some other stuff like accuracy.

I hadn't noticed that the 'level' value required server-side calculation.
I'll take a look and implement it whenever I can (granted I figure out how it's calculated).

[Rodney]

"Skill" in BC2 (not elo) has a cap of 200 and starting value of 0.

BTW "Skill" ingame is "level" in the API. As it is calculated by the backend and not by the server, contrary to elo, it is zero for everybody because NoFaTe doesn't have that implemented.

I think skill might be calculated with KDA, spm, sqapm (squad actions per minute) and maybe some other stuff like accuracy.

I hadn't noticed that the 'level' value required server-side calculation.
I'll take a look and implement it whenever I can (granted I figure out how it's calculated).

I might have missed a "as far as I can tell" there, but that would explain why everybody has a "0" as value for this stats key (according to the API).

Also according to the server files it is read-only:

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    <field name="Name">level</field>
    <field name="Description" />
    <field name="DefaultValue">0</field>
    <field name="ValueType">PersistentValueType_Set</field>
    <field name="ClientFlags">PersistentValueProtection_ReadOnly</field>
    <field name="ServerFlags">PersistentValueProtection_ReadOnly</field>
    <field name="WritePolicy">PersistentValueWritePolicy_Disconnect</field>
    <field name="Authorative">false</field>

While for example elo/elo0/elo1 are defined as read/write for the server.

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    <field name="Name">elo</field>
    <field name="Description" />
    <field name="DefaultValue">1000.0</field>
    <field name="ValueType">PersistentValueType_Set</field>
    <field name="ClientFlags">PersistentValueProtection_ReadOnly</field>
    <field name="ServerFlags">PersistentValueProtection_ReadAndWrite</field>
    <field name="WritePolicy">PersistentValueWritePolicy_Checkpoint</field>
    <field name="Authorative">false</field>

[NoFaTe]

I might have missed a "as far as I can tell" there, but that would explain why everybody has a "0" as value for this stats key (according to the API).

Also according to the server files it is read-only:

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    <field name="Name">level</field>
    <field name="Description" />
    <field name="DefaultValue">0</field>
    <field name="ValueType">PersistentValueType_Set</field>
    <field name="ClientFlags">PersistentValueProtection_ReadOnly</field>
    <field name="ServerFlags">PersistentValueProtection_ReadOnly</field>
    <field name="WritePolicy">PersistentValueWritePolicy_Disconnect</field>
    <field name="Authorative">false</field>

While for example elo/elo0/elo1 are defined as read/write for the server.

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    <field name="Name">elo</field>
    <field name="Description" />
    <field name="DefaultValue">1000.0</field>
    <field name="ValueType">PersistentValueType_Set</field>
    <field name="ClientFlags">PersistentValueProtection_ReadOnly</field>
    <field name="ServerFlags">PersistentValueProtection_ReadAndWrite</field>
    <field name="WritePolicy">PersistentValueWritePolicy_Checkpoint</field>
    <field name="Authorative">false</field>

There are four fields that are tagged as 'ReadOnly', out of which only one is currently calculated by the backend, the second one is insignificant, the third one is unused, and the fourth one is 'level', which I had never seen before.

However, since there are no 'references' as to how it's calculated (as opposed to other fields like 'score'), I will have to somehow figure it out on my own based on official stat values (which is how I figured out 'score' initially, before looking at the files).

This might take some time, but I'll keep you guys posted.

[Rodney]

There are four fields that are tagged as 'ReadOnly', out of which only one is currently calculated by the backend, the second one is insignificant, the third one is unused, and the fourth one is 'level', which I had never seen before.

However, since there are no 'references' as to how it's calculated (as opposed to other fields like 'score'), I will have to somehow figure it out on my own based on official stat values (which is how I figured out 'score' initially, before looking at the files).

This might take some time, but I'll keep you guys posted.

As far as I can tell "level" can only be seen in the leaderboard in the column "Skill Level". It isn't really important afaik.

[NoFaTe]

As far as I can tell "level" can only be seen in the leaderboard in the column "Skill Level". It isn't really important afaik.

Yes, but leaderboards are fun.

[Rodney]

As far as I can tell "level" can only be seen in the leaderboard in the column "Skill Level". It isn't really important afaik.

Yes, but leaderboards are fun.

Are you teasing possible implementation of leaderboards

[weavii]

we are talking about the "level" value that is capped at 200 right?
i haven't found anything useful, only vague explanations or "legit" quotes of dice devs talking about "level" in bf4.