ScheissNussen said:
Wow, you could complain on xband? I never had the opportunity to play it. Was there text chat and shit?
Yeah, the whole thing was way ahead of its time. You could send each other "x-mail" and even chat before or after a game in real time.
Probably the best thing about it was the ELO ranking system they used for nation-wide rankings, and the level system that was stored locally in your xband modem.
IIRC, right before a match, when it showed you who you were fighting, it would display how many points you would get if you beat him (the points depend on your opponent's national ranking), and as you collected points, you would move up in levels, depending on the game.
For MK2, you started off as a white belt, then moved up towards black belt, and then beyond that there were a bunch of other levels.
Eventually they had to shut it down because people started figuring out how to hack the modem in different ways, like getting free "nationwide", etc.
