Two different things share the word rank here, and mixing them up causes most of the confusion:
- Your rank is a level, from what you hold. It carries a benefit.
- The rankings are four leaderboards of positions.
Your rank carries a discount
Each level has a discount on the market fee, applied automatically when you buy. Higher level, lower fee. Someone with no level pays the fee in full.
It is not a coupon and there is nothing to activate: the fee you are shown before confirming a purchase already has it applied. See Fees and Your privileges.
Every level, its colour, the delay it adds when a drop opens and the discount it carries — read from the platform's own configuration, so this table cannot go out of date:
| Name | Delay | Discount | |
|---|---|---|---|
| EXOTIC | +0 minutes | -50% | |
| LEGENDARY | +5 minutes | -40% | |
| EPIC | +10 minutes | -30% | |
| RARE | +15 minutes | -20% | |
| UNCOMMON | +20 minutes | -10% | |
| COMMON | +25 minutes | -5% | |
| UNRANKED | +30 minutes | -0% |
Where a level comes from: the rarest piece in your wallet. It is recalculated when your wallet syncs, so it moves with what you hold — see How rarity works.
The collector leaderboard is not ordered by how much you own
This is the one that looks broken and is not. Positions are decided in this order:
- Whether you are subscribed. A subscribed collector ranks above an unsubscribed one, full stop.
- Your level.
- How many Zoide pieces you own — and only within the same subscription-and-level bracket.
So a subscribed collector with 600 pieces ranks above an unsubscribed one with 3,500. The table shows its criterion in the position column for exactly that reason: a leaderboard whose order you cannot explain is a leaderboard nobody believes.
The other three
Creators — ordered by what you have published and the tips your work has received. Only creators with at least one drop appear.
The top three of any leaderboard get a podium:
Best-rated collections — ordered by a weighted rating, not a raw average, so a single five-star vote does not beat a collection with dozens of ratings. The criterion belongs to the ratings system, not to the leaderboard.
Inscriptions — pieces ordered by the tips they have received.
Reading a leaderboard
Each one shows a podium of three above the table, and if you have a position in that ranking, your own row is highlighted between the podium and the table.
The podium does not move when you search or re-sort: it is the top by ranking, not a view of whatever you are filtering. And if you have no position in that ranking — a visitor, or somebody who has never published — nothing is shown rather than an unranked strip that says nothing.
Collections and inscriptions have no your position strip, because they are rankings of things, not of people.
Positions are recalculated in passes
Like rarity, ranks come from a scheduled process. Buying a piece does not move you up the table that same minute, and the page shows the last computed positions rather than an error while it waits.