League portrait borders - Page 4

On January 28 2013 06:13 spritzz wrote:
I feel Silver vs Plat, gold vs GM, diamond vs masters takes a little squinting to see.

On February 25 2013 06:03 Mahtasooma wrote:


That's because you're male trying to figure out colors, that's fine.

On February 25 2013 06:14 ronpaul012 wrote:
Just curious, for those who played WoL and are switching to Hots, is your rank the same? I stopped playing WoL a while ago and was Diamond, and I still can beat plat's when I play it. Yet in Hots I play bronze-silver-gold player like non-stop. Maybe its because only the higher level players bothered getting the beta and are playing it. Will be interesting to see where if I end up shooting back up once the game actually comes out.

On February 25 2013 16:23 quannump wrote:
Why don't they use the expansion as an excuse to unify the ranking theme? Now its split between 4 elements, a mineral, and 2 skill ranks. Meaning 7 leagues or 6 leagues + a top 200. It's not the end of the world, but it could use some consistency I think.

One option would be to stick with the elements, add copper back in at the bottom, remove Master and Grandmaster. There are plenty of elements that they could add if that's not enough leagues, that's not the point of this post. Diamond can be thematically the same as elements, while still being different enough for people to recognize that it's special.
This leaves us with:
Diamond (the new top 200) -> Platinum -> Gold -> Silver -> Bronze -> Copper.

Another option would be to drop the elements and re-do the ladder with labels consistent with master and gm. So ... add in 5 skill levels:

GM (200) -> Master -> Expert -> Veteran -> Adept -> Amateur -> Novice.

Or get rid of all current rankings and introduce a simple grading letters system:

S (200) -> A -> B -> C -> D -> E -> F

The icons could also the same treatment, we have 3 chevrons, an eagle, a diamond and 2 stars. Why not stick with the military style chevrons, there's plenty more than 3 ranks there. 7 animals maybe? .. You get the point.

And like others are saying, make the border colors more distinguishable. We have more colors than blue, orange and silver for 7 leagues. green for masters would match PGA masters jacket. red or purple could work for GM.