Explanation of Ranking Needed

[ppccctu]

I'm having a great time playing the Soviet Union in ironman mode with regular difficulty, so I don't want to sound like a whiner. Still, the ranking system seems a bit mystifying. My Soviets (with a little help from the Allies) forced Htler's Reich (and all his European Axis partners) to capitulate in October 1941, whereupon I made Germany a Soviet puppet. As I was trying to develop my plans to DOW Japan, I was rudely pulled into war with the Allies when the United States DOW'd my German puppet. It is now January of 1946, and I have achieved the following:

1) the Allies have not even one sector on continental Europe. Every sector there is Comintern or neutral.

2) the Allies have not even one sector on the entire continent of Africa. Every sector there is Comintern or neutral.

3) the Allies have lost virtually every sector of mainland Asia, retaining only those original sectors in British Malaysia

4) The Comintern has inflicted casualties on the Allies at a ratio of almost 5 to 1, and the British Navy is virtually non-existent.

5) I was able to bring both Sweden and Republican Spain into the Comintern (along with the other usual members).

And what rank does the game assign me for such achievements? I'm third behind the US and Britain. How does this happen?

 

[Tarnoyan Warrior]

Score is calculated weird. What do they outrank you in?

 

[bitmode]

podcat has already confirmed that the scoring makes very little sense as it is. The score gets inflated by operating many tiny fleets, divisions and air wings. Captured territory or inflicted casualties don't count at all. So better ignore the game score for now.

 

[ppccctu]

That's fine with me. I'm having huge fun doing all kinds of odd things with the Soviets (conquering Africa was one and now I'm building a navy), so I'm not worried about the score. I was using this game to learn all the various mechanics of the game, and getting to fight all the time has been a bonus.

 

[Dalwin]

They don't need to explain it. They need to change it for it to become something other than completely useless which is precisely the nature of the current scoring.

 

[grandad1982]

Yeah the naval score being based on number of fleets is so stupid. In my uk game despite being the biggest fleet and also modernising it in only 3rd because I have only 3 main fleets and a handful of sub and DD fleets.