How to get a high rank

[T1loady]

Why is Load your screen handle?

[vorticon]

Originally posted by T1loady
Why is Load your screen handle?

why shouldent it be

[SlapShot]

Originally posted by T1loady
I saw Steve last night in the MA and he explained it to me,  I guess I was showing my age... LOL   Sorry I got my pannies in WAD..   (S)

LOL .. thanks Steve !!!

<> sir !!!

[SlapShot]

Originally posted by beet1e
Point taken, but I just checked his stats for the last complete tour (Tour 47) and he finished in the top 100 fighter ranks, and finished in the top 50 overall.

I've been focussing on the CT lately - only have 12 minutes logged in the MA this tour. I had been trying to interpret the MA scores yet another way. And that is to locate a player whose fighter rank was better than mine and who did not fly the Easymode/Big Three subset of P51/LA7/Spit ix, because I never do. And what did I find? I couldn't find a single pilot who ranked higher than me who didn't fly one, two, or all three of those planes. The process was tedious, with each player's score having to be checked individually. So after a few random checks, I started to look at every tenth player, ie. rankings #10, #20, #30 etc. all the way up to #100. (I was #103 at that time) Couldn't find a single one.

So what's your point ?

[SlapShot]

Originally posted by vorticon
why shouldent it be

You really need to concentrate on your school work more ... especially spelling !!!

[beet1e]

Originally posted by SlapShot
So what's your point ?

The point is that no-one gets into the top 100 fighter ranks, without resorting to the EasyMode™ plane subset, ie P51/LA7/Spit ix.

[moot]

beetle top 100?
I can do it, and if I can, a lot of others could.
In the top 100 score you find intentional and unintentional scorers, and I know if you put to work the "real" (which is never defined btw) top 100, you'll see they do it in the crap planes easily.  But that's work, you really have to try hard, very quickly as you go down the ezmode scale, and sometimes flying the better planes makes it easier to wade thru the furballs with nearly the same result, not to mention if they simply prefer by taste the planes that happen to be better.

[vorticon]

Originally posted by SlapShot
You really need to concentrate on your school work more ... especially spelling !!!

what schoolwork...im only in physics shop foods and wind this semester...


  uh oh...just remembered i had some physics homework


thanks for reminding me:)

[Tarmac]

Originally posted by beet1e
The point is that no-one gets into the top 100 fighter ranks, without resorting to the EasyMode™ plane subset, ie P51/LA7/Spit ix.

Umm, I'll call BS on that one.  I've done it myself repeatedly.  Hell, expand it to the top 10 Easymode planes and I've still done it.

edit: as in tours 37-46.  I'm sure a lot of other pilots that specialize in a specific set of planes, be they luftwobbles, VVS, Japanese, or naval planes do the same thing.

[Steve]

The point is that no-one gets into the top 100 fighter ranks, without resorting to the EasyMode™ plane subset, ie P51/LA7/Spit ix.

Ya know Beet, this is a hypocritical and BS thing for you to say.  I've seen your stats in past tours in the 51, and frankly, they weren' nearly impressive enough for you to be calling the 51 an easy mode plane, it sure doesn't look like you had an easy time.  You call it easy mode... tell ya what, fly a pony for a tour, match my stats..just get close, then come back to this board and spout your insults.  You've never walked in my shoes, stop pretending you know what you are talking about.

I bet if I ever bothered to care about rank and tried, I could place in the top 10 or so in a "non- easymode" plane.  You're full o' crap on this one Beet, and most certainly not speaking from a position of experience.

[SlapShot]

Originally posted by beet1e
The point is that no-one gets into the top 100 fighter ranks, without resorting to the EasyMode™ plane subset, ie P51/LA7/Spit ix.

All from a guy who laments about the EasyMode™ plane subset, yet he had 49 kills in th CHOG last tour ...  

[beet1e]

Tarmac. I had a look at your stats, and you are the first person I've seen to finish in the top 100 without flying P51/LA7/Spit ix. Although you did fly from that subset in tours 37-40.

Hehe Steve. Try not to get too upset. You're no longer talking in the O'Club. Cat got your tongue in there - quite literally in your case.  I'd hate to see you gone from here too.

I'm not sure why you're getting upset. This thread is about "how to get rank", and all I have done is to add a few of my own observations. And one of those observations is that with very few exceptions, those in the top 100 make substantial use of the P51/LA7/Spit ix subset. I guess you're upset because of the suggestion that the P51 was "easy". Hehe, I once penned an email to my CO in WB after we'd spent a squad nite in the P51D(weeb), and asked if we could fly something else instead. I got 27 kills in an evening session, and never even got pinged once. I told the CO that I wanted more of a challenge, so he put me in a F4U (can't remember the variant).

OK, so you've looked at my past tours in P51. You must have had to go back a very long way. I only flew the P51 temporarily, at a time when I was new to the game - hence the scores may not have been that good. I remarked upon this foray into Ponydom in this thread. But there came a time when I felt I was seal clubbing. Got up to Victory 12 in the old system and thought "OK, done the pony in here - time to try something else"...

You imply you don't care about rank, but here you are reading and spouting in a thread all about rank. I'll give you time to calm down, and then we can resume our customary spirit of cordiality on Voxx.

Slapshot - yeah, and I pay for those chogs. 49 kills you say? If it's the tour I think it was, 10 of those kills came in a single sortie - 3 buff formations plus a fighter. I've always liked carrier ops, and the Corsairs and Hellcats.

[Rude]

You're so full of crap Beetle....I can't believe you take youself that seriously:)

[SlapShot]

Slapshot - yeah, and I pay for those chogs. 49 kills you say? If it's the tour I think it was, 10 of those kills came in a single sortie - 3 buff formations plus a fighter. I've always liked carrier ops, and the Corsairs and Hellcats.

It was LAST tour. It doesn't matter what tour it was and what you killed and how many you killed with it ... that plane is no different than a P51 in my book.

Which name would you prefer ... Pot or Kettle ?

[Tarmac]

Originally posted by beet1e
Tarmac. I had a look at your stats, and you are the first person I've seen to finish in the top 100 without flying P51/LA7/Spit ix. Although you did fly from that subset in tours 37-40.

12 pony and 13 spit9 kills over 4 tours is hardly what I'd call statistically significant.  But I'll play along, since I've got other tours that I didn't touch those planes in.    

Anyhow, it can be done.  And it's fairly common, I'd bet.  I'm sure most of my squaddies (moot/muut, lazerus, and jinx in particular) have done it in mostly 190s, 109s, and 205s as well.  There are many other good pilots out there that probably do it without really trying as well.