Rank System brain dump

[Kaden]

What I'm saying though, is related to the era mechanic mentioned in OP. If you don't post for a while assume and other people are being active and getting stronger, why shouldn't it make sense for them to be catching up and your relative strength decreasing?

That only happens if there's an era shift as you fall in rank from a higher one to a lower one of equivalent adjusted power.

Within the same era, according to ranks, you actually are losing power. It's not a matter of "well these people trained and passed me up." The best explanation becomes "I stopped training so I got weaker" and, even then isn't always applicable or sensible.

I'm not saying this an end-of-the-world problem. I'm saying this is an issue with the system that I see people complaining about six months after it gets implemented, if it ever does.