So giving grades in school is unfair, too?
And this is basically the same as one global ladder?
If you don't care anyway, just spare ppl this random nonsense.
What you fail to see is that there are a huge numbers of players, just like myself, who don't care a lick about rating. And there also many old zone rated players who have left the game.
You can't see them because they are gone from AOC for years.
Zone's rated system was grafted on to AoK/AoC based on zone chess ELO. This is the 21st century, maybe time for a 21st century ranking/rated sytem.