CLIMBING THE HOF

It's easier to say than to do (and twice as obvious), but here are the basics of what you need to do to climb the Metal Knights Hall of Fame:

Play and win games.
Lose as few games as possible.
Kill high ranking players as much as possible (sometimes, although rarely, at the expense of winning the game).
Play a lot of games at once.
Pick a server to play on and stick to it.

        Reaching the highest ranks of the HOF is a campaign. You have to be prepared to play a lot of games in a relatively short period of time. It is quite easy to fall behind if you don't play enough (take me, I was once a Lt.Colonel on mk.com. Due to lack of recent games, I am now only a Captain!). This is due to the rate of point gaining of the Metal Knight. In a way, it is like a ladder that is getting longer all the time. If you can't climb faster than the ladder gets longer, you will never reach the top. It's as simple as that.
        As I have stated above, the way to climb fast enough is to play a lot of games (3-4 at all times is a minimum) on one server against high ranking players, defeating them regularly. This is what send you up the HOF. Playing games in a manner contrary to this is to dilute your efforts. Playing against only low rankers is too easy and gains you very few points. Losing does nothing good for your average and actually sends you down the HOF. Playing over several different servers just reduces the speed at which you can improve on any one server. Not playing enough games makes it very difficult to keep up, much less improve. Having said that though, there are a couple of other things you can do to help yourself along.
        First of these is to pick your opponents. It is usually easier to defeat a high ranker (Major or higher) with a bad record than it is to defeat even a middle ranker (Sergeant to Captain) with a good record. To determine who these people are, whenever you are thinking about joining a game, take a look at their records in the NetMetal Player Search on the Metal Knights Homepage. In general, a high ranker with less than 10 Officer Kills and a ratio lower than 5 is probably not going to be too difficult for a highly skilled player.On the other hand, if you come across a middle ranker with 5 or more officer kills and a ratio of above 10, then you are probably looking at someone at least as good as you are. Unless you are looking for a risky game (and lots of fun), then you should probably steer clear.
        The second way to help yourself reach the top is to become the leader of a strong alliance. Because the leader of an alliance gets 5 points every time the alliance wins a game, being that leader can be quite rewarding. It doesn't hurt your chances of actually learning more about the game either :)

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