okay after seing the responses to my polls I think I'll deal with each issue one by one, first off rank:

1. Leave it as it is

2. make it harded to rank up like with the old rank system. less points for kills as a zombie, less points for killing zombies and you lose more points for dying (up for discussion)

3. Remove the ranks all together

4. restore this rank system based on how much time you've been on the zmod server per week rather than skills, kills and rank

The old ranks were:
noob, regular, Fan, specialist, master, 31337.

not sure how this was rigged up, this was before my time but seems like a good idea