[G] Connect to Korean Gateways

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On February 25 2011 14:54 sCCrooked wrote:

I apologize I should've made sure you could see the Korean. I will repost here, as I provide the exact text to look for (in case you don't read/speak Korean). At the least, with them here you can just match up the characters and see which one is being said to you:

There's a way to check if this process is finished or not. You type in the command /lgame. If it says: "레더게임 가능 합니다" (You can play ladder games), well duh it means you can play... well ladder games! If it says "레더 게임 불가능합니다", (You can't play ladder games) it means the 10 hours isn't complete yet and you must wait longer. I still just recommend setting the thing up before you go to bed at night. So much easier.

If you need Korean language packs installed so you can see Korean and not a bunch of random symbols (Euro, Zeros with slashes through them, question marks, boxes, etc), these links will provide you with the step-by-step instructions as well as pictures:

-Windows Vista Language Help
-Windows 7 Language Help
-Windows XP Language Help

If you have an older OS or a Macintosh, I'm sorry but I don't have experience installing foreign languages on those systems.

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from sCCrooked
Every 100 points is another rank. They keep changing how many you get/lose per game so I can't tell you what will change after this very long maintenance is finished. I'd say you probably could play about 4-5 games though and get another rank (if you won 100% of course). The ranking system is as follows:

Loser (Yes your icon actually changes to the word "LOSER" in caps) > F- > F > D > C- > C > C+ > B- > B > B+ > A- > A > A+ > S- > S > S+

Each rank has its own channel and you'll be constantly moved up in the channels vs more skilled opponents as you improve in rank. As for Fish, I believe the ladder works similarly (I stopped playing fish several months ago and haven't followed it since. Its a huge pain to keep re-activating all the reg files). On Fish I believe its 10 regular games before you can ladder. Not very much to ask people to do. Right now with Brain down though, Fish got all the extra people, so there's literally HALF A MILLION over there.This will probably stay the case until Brain goes back up.

There is also a rumor going around that Brain will never go back up because Blizzard is pressuring them. This is of course, just a rumor so far. Although, its a bit strange there's no information or word from anybody on the Brainclan site about why the server is down, when it will be back up, or even what they're doing to it that's taking so long.

Back to the explanation of the rankings: A lot of people will ask for the comparisons of iCCup to Brain Rankings. The answer is difficult because often there are many styles that are being played. Bad players vs bad players still move up in rank sometimes until they reach a point where the players know how to severely punish bad play. You might find someone at C- who's really playing a bad style but nobody in D could punish them enough. Then they reach C and suddenly every game is a brick wall because their bad playstyle is punished repeatedly and harshly. My best answer would be the following chart:

iCCup Rank ---------------- Brainclan Rank

E ---------- Loser
D- ------------ Loser
D -------------- Loser
D+ ------------- F-
C- -------------- F-/Low-F
C --------------- F/Low-D
C+ ------------- Mid-D
B- -------------- Low-(C-)
B ---------------- C-/Low-C
B+ ---------------C
A-/A ------------- C+
A+/Olympic ---- B- and higher

Pretty much anybody reaching B-/B/B+ on Brain belongs to a massive group of people numbering in the thousands that try out for B-team spots on Progaming teams every season. Anybody A-/A/A+/S- is most likely an accomplished B-teamer on an actual progaming squad (or was a B-teamer such as Terr0r[f0u]). S/S+ in Brainclan history has almost always been exclusively actual current progamers. You can think of Brainclan as the Minor Leagues if Proleague is the Big Leagues.

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