DLH112 wrote:
maybe, but the rank updating seems to be sporadic and only after a song is finished playing. look at this http://www.twitch.tv/dlh112/v/10402335
see 2:15 then 4:30 where i improve my oracion score, but it doesn't affect my rank, then i lose 6 ranks after water horizon for no reason (maybe because of my oracion score?). also at 17:30 i lose a rank after improving my speedcore 300 hard score.
similar things have happened and it always seems to be after playing an easy song i have a terrible score on. sometimes its 15-25 ranks.
Daily, about 20 people pass my rank, and within the day I play a lot of easier songs to get better scores on them, I lose 1~4 ranks depending on how long ago I played the last song. I sometimes don't lose ranks for a while, and instead gain ranks after a few songs. I'd say it's just refreshing your rank, and since you're not gaining much from these plays, you're not able to counter the loss of ranks. An example of this would be gaining a rank every 10 easy song, but that takes about 30 minutes, and by that time, you may have lost your rank to 5 other people, pushing you down from 6k to 6004.
Sometimes I don't lose ranks at all, but I notice that my rank falls much more at certain times in the day. You might have a lot of competitors in other places in the world.
To sum it up, every moment you're not ranking up, you're losing ranks. The score update is just more active when you play more without any big progress.