Yes you are right but I think you’ve found a bug with my cack handed description of my logic, not with the logic itself!
We value things highly by assigning them symbols with low values, so a symbol with a postfix modifier that gives it a slightly lower value means we value it higher! Or something :)
- Military patches get more ornate with increased rank
- etc.
Its a nice theory but it doesn't really follow.
[1] Tangential, but I have particular annoyance with how game deal with sub-ranks. Some games indicate the highest tier within a rank with the highest number, whereas others use the lowest number.
Ah so what you’re saying is a - should represent moving the score toward the start of the alphabet (the 1st letter) and a + should represent moving toward the end of the alphabet (the 26th letter)
Here's your mistake. Alphabet ordering is decreasing in value.