Talk:Karma/@comment-90.227.61.73-20130902184944/@comment-4697956-20130902200321

I was in a similar situation where as I was getting closer to 10k, I didn't think I'd be able to achieve 1700 rating and therefore not be able to play commando till I was 80k. Although I reached 10k before I hit 1700 rating so I wasn't able to play commando right away, I played a lot of alpha company games at one point and was able to finally reach 1700. Eventually I transistioned to ec nm games and ac nm games which got my rating up to over 1800.

Pub games do mess with my rating though because if the majority/whole team falls very early into the game, you either die and lose a lot of rating or you survive but take a lot of hits over time which decreases your rating. It hasn't deterred me from pub games though, despite reducing my rating down to the mid 1700s.

Now to get your rating up, I would advise that you get a team of people together and have a crack at some nightmare games. Oh and play your damn hardest in those games. In the past, many people were willing to have a go but NOTD has lost some popularity since then and so the server I played on (EU) is very quiet nowadays and not what it used to be. Therefore, I would advise that you jump to the NA region to play those nightmare games if you aren't already from NA, since it's the server with the biggest NOTD population.

Now, as for karma. My karma sucks considering my experience count (nearing 30k exp IIRC). This was due to accidental nuke TKs overtime once I did hit commando (both in pub games and in advanced games). At the moment, my karma is around the mid 1600s. However, as long as I have at least 1525 karma, I couldn't care less about it. Unfortunately, I don't have any advice to give to increase your karma other than to keep playing, don't TK if you can and do what you can to increase your karma within each game.

Now finally, I don't understand your suggestion fully but I think you are saying that TKs shouldn't give rating loss to demo and commando if they are above 2k exp. Problem with that is that just because someone has reached 2k exp does not make them a safe person to play with. In other words, it means less punishment if they decide that they want to kill you on purpose.