I Became a Commander in a Crappy SF Game.

Ch.544Icarus, Falling from Third Place?!

by fnovelpia

First and foremost, the initial message was about ‘ranking calculations’ based on event scores.

The problem was that the content of these rankings had enough impact to blow away all the topics that had been discussed until just moments ago.

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<<<‘Grand Cross’ Event Ranking Score Calculation!>>>

<Commanders, thank you for your hard work participating in the event!>

<1st Place: Betelgeuse>

<2nd Place: Arcadia>

<3rd Place: Mona Lisa>

<4th Place: Antares>

<5th Place: Snow Leopard>

<6th Place: Tooth Fairy>

<7th Place: Hippo>

<8th Place: Rio Grande>

<9th Place: Bersaglieri>

<10th Place: Tenta>

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Surprisingly, all the so-called ‘solo player’ users among the previous top 10 rankers had been eliminated.

Their positions were now occupied by leaders of major clans.

Antares, who had undisputedly held first place until now, dropped to fourth, while Betelgeuse, who had been living a painful life, achieved first place.

And other existing ‘clan leader’ rankers all simultaneously rose in the rankings, creating a bizarre phenomenon.

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Title: Is this right? lolololol

Author: Anonymous

Content: [Screenshot of the announcement showing the dramatic ranking changes.jpg]

What criteria did they use? Grand Cross kill counts?

Rankings suddenly changed like crazy lololol

I wouldn’t even complain if only the top 10 changed like this

[Image showing position within top 500 before the event.jpg]

[Image showing complete disappearance from even the top 1,000 after the event.jpg]

But wtf why did my ranking disappear?

Comments:

-[What the hell, why did you drop so hard?]

-[Loser lolololol]

-˪[Wait wtf I just realized I dropped too]

-˪[Loser lololol]

-[Skill difference~]

-˪[Something seems off about the ranking criteria if it’s just about skill]

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Title: The ranking calculation seems really weird

Author: Anonymous

Content: [Screenshot of ranking announcement.jpg]

No joke, something seems really off because:

Betelgeuse barely did any direct damage to the Grand Cross

Because they were busy commanding from the rear, Betelgeuse and the executives hardly did any damage

But looking at the rankings now, all the Loki clan executives suddenly shot up in rank

Meanwhile, Antares personally led the Jormungandr-class ships and dealt massive damage to the Grand Cross, but their ranking dropped

Also, everyone knows Snow Leopard and Raksha were going crazy together in the central sector

But in the rankings, Raksha who was 2nd place disappeared, while Snow Leopard who just gave orders and barely contributed directly went up

Comments:

-[Oh, that’s true]

-[What’s going on?]

-[Did they calculate some kind of leadership weight?]

-[No way that’s possible]

-[Something’s definitely up]

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Users began expressing tremendous dissatisfaction with the sudden—or rather, revolutionary—changes in the rankings.

Even excluding the solo players and clan “members” who had largely fallen out of the rankings and were flooding the forums with complaints…

The clan leaders and so-called “commander-type” users who had unexpectedly risen in the rankings were equally confused.

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Title: Our clan leader is dumbfounded by their own ranking increase

Author: Anonymous

Content: [Screenshot of a clan chat where the clan leader is complaining that this makes no sense.jpg]

For real

They’re saying all they did was watch clan members suffer, nothing else

Comments:

-[Note: Shuttle rider]

-˪[You little shit](Author)

-[Sweet shuttle!]

-[Wait, is the comment above using “bus” – “shuttle bus” – “shuttle” as a substitute for getting carried?]

-˪[Dunno?]

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Title: Even the ranking subjects themselves can’t understand it

Author: Anonymous

Content: [Screenshot of chat showing clan members celebrating while Arcadia just spams question marks.jpg]

As you can see

Rather than being purely happy, everyone’s reaction is “why me?”

Some aren’t like that, but most of what I’ve seen is like this

Comments:

-[It really is puzzling]

-[At least people like Arcadia were actively fighting, so it’s somewhat understandable]

-[But Betelgeuse and Mona Lisa just commanded their clan members without dealing much damage themselves]

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The gallery continued to buzz with various discussions and debates about the rankings.

Of course, as is always the case with worldly matters, as time passed and users’ excitement settled down…

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Title: Thinking about it now, the ranking calculation method actually makes sense;;

Author: Anonymous

Content: [Screenshot of ranking announcement.jpg]

After cooling my head and thinking about it, the numbers seem to roughly match up with leadership contributions

Plus, someone mentioned that the rankings also somewhat reflect the order in which the Grand Cross was defeated

Looking at it that way

It seems pretty fair actually

Solo players might ask what happened to them

But most of the former solo rankers joined clans anyway, except for a few

So maybe their performance got reflected in their clan or sector performance and got attributed to the clan leaders

Comments:

-[Hmmmm]

-[Interesting;]

-[Honestly, the calculations wouldn’t make sense otherwise]

-[Oh, that would explain why Betelgeuse hit 1st place]

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Title: So to summarize the current situation…

Author: MelancholySerf

Content: [Image of a toad sighing deeply with a cigarette]

Our gallery was burning up because of the ranking calculations

But it turns out they were actually appropriate judgments, so we’re just putting out our own fire?

Are you guys idiots?

Comments:

-[You’ve achieved enlightenment, you may descend the mountain now]

-˪[What](Author)

-[Isn’t this how communities always burn themselves out? lol]

-[That’s how the world works]

-˪[This is ridiculous, then what was the point of all that outrage?](Author)

-˪[<Image of a toad shouting “I DON’T KNOW!”>]

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The atmosphere calmed down as users arbitrarily concluded “this must be why things are the way they are!” and moved on with their own interpretation of reality.

But just as things were settling down, a second message appeared before the users’ eyes…

A completely unexpected message.

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<Event>

<<<First Solo Conquest of Level 9 Stronghold Successful!!!>>>

<‘Daedalus Research Fortress’ is now under the control of ‘Commander Icarus’!>

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-[wtf is this?]

-[????]

-[What’s going on all of a sudden]

-[Suddenly epic hidden camera moment]

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The unexpected news that Icarus had captured the only Level 9 stronghold in the central sector was what shocked everyone.

Most users were simply showing reactions of complete incomprehension at this sudden announcement.

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