1. How are players tracked? Or, why is my name listed more than once?

Players are tracked by Unique ID. Your Unique ID is the last two sections of your Steam ID (X:XXXX).

A player may have more than one name. On the Player Rankings pages, players are shown with the most recent name they used in the game. If you click on a player's name, the Player Details page will show you a list of all other names that this player uses, if any, under the Aliases section (if the player has not used any other names, the Aliases section will not be displayed).

Your name may be listed more than once if somebody else (with a different Unique ID) uses the same name.

You can use the Search function to find a player by name or Unique ID.

2. How is the "points" rating calculated?

A new player has 1000 points. Every time you make a kill, you gain a certain amount of points depending on a) the victim's points rating, and b) the weapon you used. If you kill someone with a higher points rating than you, then you gain more points than if you kill someone with a lower points rating than you. Therefore, killing newbies will not get you as far as killing the #1 player. And if you kill someone with your knife, you gain more points than if you kill them with a rifle, for example.

When you are killed, you lose a certain amount of points, which again depends on the points rating of your killer and the weapon they used (you don't lose as many points for being killed by the #1 player with a rifle than you do for being killed by a low ranked player with a knife). This makes moving up the rankings easier, but makes staying in the top spots harder.

Specifically, the equations are:

 Killer Points = Killer Points + (Victim Points / Killer Points)
				 × Weapon Modifier × 5

 Victim Points = Victim Points - (Victim Points / Killer Points)
				 × Weapon Modifier × 5

Plus, the following point bonuses are available for completing objectives in some games:

Game	Player Action	PlyrPlyr Action	Team Action	World Action	Action	Player Reward	Team Reward
All Popular Maps	Yes	No	No	No	Teleporter Used Again (Past 10 Seconds) (Not Own)	0
All Popular Maps	Yes	No	No	No	Airshot Arrow	0
All Popular Maps	No	Yes	No	No	Deflected Jarate	0
All Popular Maps	Yes	No	No	No	Ate Sandvich for Health	0
All Popular Maps	Yes	No	No	No	Airshot Rocket (Airborne)	0
All Popular Maps	No	No	Yes	No	Round Win	0
All Popular Maps	No	Yes	No	No	Deflected Arrow	0
All Popular Maps	Yes	No	No	No	Rocket Jump	0
All Popular Maps	Yes	No	No	No	Teleported Again (Past 10 Seconds)	0
All Popular Maps	Yes	No	No	No	Ate a Sandvich	0
All Popular Maps	Yes	No	No	No	Ate Dalokohs Bar for Health	0
All Popular Maps	Yes	No	No	No	Airshot Rocket	0
All Popular Maps	Yes	No	No	No	Airshot Pipebomb	0
All Popular Maps	No	Yes	No	No	Deflected Rocket	0
All Popular Maps	Yes	No	No	No	Sticky Jump	0
All Popular Maps	Yes	No	No	No	Teleporter Used (Not Own)	0
All Popular Maps	Yes	No	No	No	Teleporter used (self)	0
All Popular Maps	No	Yes	No	No	Airblast Player	0
All Popular Maps	No	Yes	No	No	Deflected Flare	0
All Popular Maps	Yes	No	No	No	Rocket Jumper Kill	0
All Popular Maps	Yes	No	No	No	Force Suicide	0
All Popular Maps	Yes	No	No	No	Airshot Pipebomb (Airborne)	0
All Popular Maps	Yes	No	No	No	Airshot Stun	0
All Popular Maps	Yes	No	No	No	Rocket Jump Failure	0
All Popular Maps	Yes	No	No	No	Sticky Jumper Kill	0
All Popular Maps	Yes	No	No	No	Ate a Dalokohs Bar	0
All Popular Maps	Yes	No	No	No	Drowned	0
All Popular Maps	Yes	No	No	No	LOL SAW'D	0
All Popular Maps	Yes	No	No	No	Airshot Flare	0
All Popular Maps	No	Yes	No	No	Deflected Pipebomb	0
All Popular Maps	Yes	No	No	No	Sticky Jump Failure	0
All Popular Maps	Yes	No	No	No	Teleported Self Again (Past 10 Seconds)	0
All Popular Maps	Yes	No	No	No	Airshot Sticky (Airborne)	0
All Popular Maps	No	No	Yes	No	Mini-Round Win	0
All Popular Maps	No	Yes	No	No	Deflected Baseball	0
All Popular Maps	Yes	No	No	No	Rocket Jump Kill	0
All Popular Maps	Yes	No	No	No	Critical Kill	0
All Popular Maps	Yes	No	No	No	Ate a Buffalo Steak Sandvich	0
All Popular Maps	Yes	No	No	No	Dropped the flag (on death)	0
All Popular Maps	No	Yes	No	No	Blocked with Shield	0
All Popular Maps	Yes	No	No	No	Airshot Headshot	0
All Popular Maps	Yes	No	No	No	Airshot Sticky	0
All Popular Maps	No	Yes	No	No	Deflected Directhit Rocket	0
All Popular Maps	Yes	No	No	No	Sticky Jump Kill	0
All Popular Maps	Yes	No	No	No	Disassembled a sentry gun	-3
All Popular Maps	Yes	No	No	No	Disassembled a sentry gun	-3
All Popular Maps	Yes	No	No	No	Disassembled a dispenser	-3
All Popular Maps	Yes	No	No	No	Disassembled a dispenser	-3
All Popular Maps	Yes	No	No	No	LOL TRAIN'D	-2
All Popular Maps	Yes	No	No	No	Disassembled a teleporter	-2
All Popular Maps	Yes	No	No	No	Dropped the flag (while alive)	-2
All Popular Maps	Yes	No	No	No	Disassembled a teleporter	-2
All Popular Maps	Yes	No	No	No	Disassembled a mini sentry gun	-1
All Popular Maps	Yes	No	No	No	Disassembled a mini sentry gun	-1
All Popular Maps	Yes	No	No	No	Console-killed sapper	-1
All Popular Maps	Yes	No	No	No	Monster Kill (10 kills)	+9
All Popular Maps	Yes	No	No	No	Killing Spree (9 kills)	+8
All Popular Maps	Yes	No	No	No	Ultra Kill (8 kills)	+7
All Popular Maps	Yes	No	No	No	Ownage (7 kills)	+6
All Popular Maps	Yes	No	No	No	MVP #2	+5
All Popular Maps	Yes	No	No	No	Captured the flag	+5
All Popular Maps	Yes	No	No	No	First Blood	+5
All Popular Maps	Yes	No	Yes	No	Point Captured	+5
All Popular Maps	Yes	No	No	No	Domination	+5
All Popular Maps	Yes	No	No	No	Mega Kill (6 kills)	+5
All Popular Maps	Yes	No	No	No	Rampage (5 kills)	+4
All Popular Maps	Yes	No	No	No	Player Penetration	+4
All Popular Maps	Yes	No	No	No	Built a dispenser	+3
All Popular Maps	Yes	No	No	No	Built a dispenser	+3
All Popular Maps	Yes	No	No	No	Destroyed a sentry gun	+3
All Popular Maps	Yes	No	No	No	Built a sentry gun	+3
All Popular Maps	Yes	No	No	No	Domination (4 kills)	+3
All Popular Maps	Yes	No	No	No	Destroyed a dispenser	+3
All Popular Maps	Yes	No	No	No	MVP #3	+3
All Popular Maps	Yes	No	No	No	Kill Assist - Medic	+3
All Popular Maps	Yes	No	No	No	Built a sentry gun	+3
All Popular Maps	Yes	No	No	No	Triple Kill (3 kills)	+2
All Popular Maps	Yes	No	No	No	Destroyed a teleporter	+2
All Popular Maps	Yes	No	No	No	Headshot Kill	+2
All Popular Maps	No	Yes	No	No	Steal Sandvich	+2
All Popular Maps	Yes	No	No	No	Kill Assist	+2
All Popular Maps	Yes	No	No	No	Picked up the flag	+2
All Popular Maps	Yes	No	No	No	Backstab Kill	+2
All Popular Maps	Yes	No	No	No	Built a teleporter	+2
All Popular Maps	Yes	No	No	No	Built a teleporter	+2
All Popular Maps	Yes	No	No	No	God Like (12+ kills)	+11
All Popular Maps	Yes	No	No	No	Unstoppable (11 kills)	+10
All Popular Maps	Yes	No	No	No	MVP #1	+10
All Popular Maps	Yes	No	No	No	Revenge	+10
All Popular Maps	Yes	No	No	No	Stun	+1
All Popular Maps	Yes	No	No	No	Defended the flag	+1
All Popular Maps	Yes	No	No	No	Killed charged medic	+1
All Popular Maps	Yes	No	No	No	Destroyed a mini sentry gun	+1
All Popular Maps	Yes	No	No	No	Deployed Buff Flag	+1
All Popular Maps	Yes	No	No	No	Attached a Sapper	+1
All Popular Maps	Yes	No	No	No	Extinguished Teammate (Scout)	+1
All Popular Maps	Yes	No	No	No	Extinguished Teammate (Engineer)	+1
All Popular Maps	Yes	No	No	No	Capture Blocked	+1
All Popular Maps	Yes	No	No	No	Extinguished Teammate (Pyro)	+1
All Popular Maps	No	Yes	No	No	Jarated player	+1
All Popular Maps	Yes	No	No	No	Built a mini sentry gun	+1
All Popular Maps	Yes	No	No	No	Ubercharge	+1
All Popular Maps	Yes	No	No	No	Defended a Medic	+1
All Popular Maps	Yes	No	No	No	Double Kill (2 kills)	+1
All Popular Maps	Yes	No	No	No	Mad Milking a player	+1
All Popular Maps	Yes	No	No	No	Extinguished Teammate (Medic)	+1
All Popular Maps	Yes	No	No	No	Built a mini sentry gun	+1
All Popular Maps	Yes	No	No	No	Cart Escort	+1
All Popular Maps	Yes	No	No	No	Removed a Sapper	+1
All Popular Maps	Yes	No	No	No	Teleporter used	+1
All Popular Maps	Yes	No	No	No	Extinguished Teammate (Sniper)	+1

Note: The player who triggers an action may receive both the player reward and the team reward.

3. What are all the weapon points modifiers?

Weapon points modifiers are used to determine how many points you should gain or lose when you make a kill or are killed by another player. Higher modifiers indicate that more points will be gained when killing with that weapon (and similarly, more points will be lost when being killed by that weapon). Modifiers generally range from 0.00 to 2.00.

4. How can I set my real name, e-mail address, and homepage?

Player profile options can be configured by saying the appropriate HLX_SET command while you are playing on a participating game server. To say commands, push your chat key and type the command text.

Syntax: say /hlx_set option value.

Acceptable "options" are:

• realname
  Sets your Real Name as shown in your profile.
  Example:   /hlx_set realname Joe Bloggs
  
  
• email
  Sets your E-mail Address as shown in your profile.
  Example:   /hlx_set email [email protected]
  
  
• homepage
  Sets your Home Page as shown in your profile.
  Example:   /hlx_set homepage http://www.joebloggs.com/
  
  

Note: These are not standard Half-Life console commands. If you type them in the console, Half-Life will give you an error.

For a full list of supported ingame commands, type the word help into ingame chat.

5. My rank is embarrassing. How can I opt out?

Say /hlx_hideranking while playing on a participating game server. This will toggle you between being visible on the Player Rankings and being invisible.

Note: You will still be tracked and you can still view your Player Details page. Use the Search page to find yourself.