Re: Halo 3 Rank
I agree mate. It doesn't take very much effort at all to get 20+ skill points in Lone Wolves and from there you'd only need to be on the winning team in a bunch of Social Big Team Slayer games and you could potentially become a Captain Grade 4 with time and patience. You could even keep your head down and let the rest of your team win the matches for you and you would still be awarded EXP points.
When I first started playing Halo 3 matchmaking I used to think, "Uh oh - these dude's are Lieutenants. I'm gonna' get my a-hole handed to me now!" when in fact they were pretty much the same skill - they just planned a tonne more games than me.
I didn't explain that so great but I just think the way EXP is handed out in Halo 3 is a little flawed. Speaking of which, you only need to come third in a ranked match to qualify for EXP. And there's been many times when people in the third, fourth and fifth position in a match have all had equal scores - meaning that they are all joint third and no-one is penalized and loses points. Just seems too easy to level up to me anyway and I'm not even a particularly good Halo 3 player.