OK i'll concede the other idea was terrible. But with some help from nuts and matty I have changed my idea and i hope this one is better .
The idea now is to have different levels of each rank, eg "professional 1, professional 2" etc, where higher levels would be achieved by gaining rank, winning tournaments and hitting breaks.

The breakdown i came up with as a base idea is:

Arcade/Regular/Original

Intermediate as standard

Adept 1: 700+ rank
Adept 2: Adept 1 + 5 breaks of 50+
Adept 3: Adept 1 + 10 breaks of 50+ + 1 tournament win

Professional 1: 800+ rank
Professional 2: Pro 1 + 5 breaks of 100+
Professional 3: Pro 1 + 10 breaks of 100+ + 5 tournament wins

Virtuoso 1: 900+ rank
Virtuoso 2: Virt 1 + 5 maxes
Virtuoso 3: Virt 1 + 10 maxes + 20 tournament wins.

(and similar ideas for killer, carom and power)

I am not sure if it should stop at 3, if it could keep going up as more 50s/100s/maxes are hit then it would give players who have currently achieved everything something new to aim for.

not bad

how about an extreme/master one for the robots?

That is a great idea now .. it does undermine anyones achievments to getting to 900+ tehre own way and still pays respect to the people who want to hit centuries after centuries very good idea even if we must say so ourselves :P

if the number could keep going up then master unlocks at virtuoso 100

There are several players, myself included, who do not really pay much attention to rank.

However, as I have 20 odd reg cents, including a max, 8 tourney wins, yet only 760 rank in regular..... where would a player like me fit in to the equation please.....?

Neither Adept 3 nor any of the Pro ranks would appear appropriate....

I like it

Think this is fab idea, makes goals for people

baff i think this was just a rough sketch kinda thing just to show the sort of idea what we was thinking about at 2 o clock this morning :D

And adam u was right this thread has already got the attention of more players than the other one lol :P

hmm i had thought about that as i am much the same. 30 odd reg cents, a max but only like 780 rank if that. arc ive hit 3 maxes and only 790 rank.
The idea of "experience" was put forward but i wasn't overly keen on that as someone could get a level with only one thing, eg just hitting maxes or just winning games and the idea was to balance it out.
What would you suggest baff?

For a rough idea...I love it.

Sensai

So if I'm at 900+ without hitting a cent, what am I?

Virtuoso 1

im beginning to see where the work on the idea is needed, but im quite happy with it as a base idea.

i would be a virt 1 .. where as seb would be a virt 100 :D

and destiny would make my calculator explode

lol no actually:
arc: virt 3
reg: virt 2
orig: virt 1

I hit cents, not maxes

haha seb sorry mr smarty pants :P destiny would be crazy good yeah :/

haha no! destiny sucks at this:
arc: virt 3
reg: pro 3
orig: pro 3