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Offline Blammo

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« on: February 27, 2004, 11:03:16 AM »
The top 10 pilots so far for this tour have flown less than 50 hours total time (all vehicles, aircraft and boats).

Good rule: fly less=die less=rank higher.

note: not saying anything about the pilots, just an interesting observation.

That being said, I wonder if there is not a way to rate people with time weighing more in the mix.  I mean, I know that you are rank on "Kills per hour", but that does not weigh very heavily into the final ranking.

For instance, how about a minimum number of hours being flown before being ranked?

Just a thought.
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« Reply #1 on: February 27, 2004, 11:15:50 AM »
ummm i would consider 50hrs a lot of flying time.

Edit- Just checked, Shawk is ranked 1 and has flown 123 hrs so far....you sure you looked at correct rankings?
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« Reply #2 on: February 27, 2004, 12:09:18 PM »
score page deafults to the CT...  he needs to hit refresh or get ranks/scores to get the MA ones.
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Re: Interesting thing I discovered
« Reply #3 on: February 27, 2004, 01:58:55 PM »
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Originally posted by Blammo
The top 10 pilots so far for this tour have flown less than 50 hours total time (all vehicles, aircraft and boats).

Good rule: fly less=die less=rank higher.



Then why change it.   Perhaps you would like a rank for most time on award we could call it the "No Real life Award"

Just a thought  ;)
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« Reply #4 on: February 27, 2004, 03:38:11 PM »
In reply:

thrila: I looked at the following link: http://www.hitechcreations.com/cgi-bin/105score/105ranks.pl

Also, if I look up Shawk and you are correct, he shows an overall rank of 1st, but the page I linked to above says differently

Shane:  Followed your advice and it showed the same thing.  Cleared the cache and it showed me the same thing.  I track this page a lot and it seems to get updated on a regular basis.

ATC: No, I am not looking for "most time" to be the only factor.  And like many others who have a life and yet find time to play, I was just curoius about the time spent playing.

Look, guys...give me a break.  If the data I have on hand says one thing, and a different set of data says differently, what can you expect? :D
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« Reply #5 on: February 27, 2004, 03:51:34 PM »
Hopefully the next thing you will discover that rank is meaningless and will eventually ruin your enjoyment of the game.  Just as ask all the rank/score potatos that whine and get pissed because they just died and it ruined their rank.  It also promotes timid flying.

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« Reply #6 on: February 27, 2004, 03:52:03 PM »
Blammo, forget the refresh button, Shane has hit the bong once too much today.  Click on "Get ranks" again after page shows up, you'll get the correct info.

AKAK is correct in that the rankings are not a sure indicator of one's skills. As has been stated numerous times... plenty of the best pilots are ranked quite poorly.  However, his statement about promoting timidity is not completely accurate.  At least as far as fighter rank goes,  truly timid pilots will adversely affect their K/T which will in turn affect their rank is a like manner.
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« Reply #7 on: February 27, 2004, 04:32:27 PM »
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 At least as far as fighter rank goes,  truly timid pilots will adversely affect their K/T which will in turn affect their rank is a like manner.



That's why they vulch as much as they can to keep their K/T up so they don't have to be aggressive and risk their K/D or K/S score/rank.  Not that I'm saying every top ranked pilot is timid, some clearly aren't but, for example the #1 fighter pilot this tour, clearly is.


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« Reply #8 on: February 27, 2004, 04:47:04 PM »
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Blammo, forget the refresh button, Shane has hit the bong once too much today.  Click on "Get ranks" again after page shows up, you'll get the correct info.
 


i also said "or get ranks/scores"

i am correct in that the page defaults to the CT rankings.

and beet1e/urchin... (if you read this) some of the top 10 have less than 50 hrs total.
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« Reply #9 on: February 27, 2004, 05:01:15 PM »
Maybe it was me that hit the bong once too much today.
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« Reply #10 on: February 27, 2004, 05:03:37 PM »
LOL AKAK. I have the worst luck at vulching.. there, I'm an expert at killshooting.  I'm also really good at finding a guy in an osti that can hit shiny ponies at 1.6 or better.  Nooooo, vulching much too dangerous for me. :)
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« Reply #11 on: February 27, 2004, 06:49:44 PM »
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Originally posted by Blammo
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thrila: I looked at the following link: http://www.hitechcreations.com/cgi-bin/105score/105ranks.pl
 
those scores that show are for the CT tour as stated above.

need to click "get scores" for the MA scores
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« Reply #12 on: February 27, 2004, 09:13:30 PM »
Ironic that someone w/ a K/H of around 5 would call ANYONE timid.
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« Reply #13 on: February 27, 2004, 09:47:43 PM »
3 of the top 10 have less than 50 hours.  I think 1 has less than 40, but I just did a quick check.  

Honestly, you can probably get top 10 with less than 20 hours, depending on how "efficient" you are.

Just make sure you have a score in every sub-category of every category and you'll be ranked higher than 99.5% of the population.
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« Reply #14 on: February 28, 2004, 01:19:05 AM »
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LOL AKAK. I have the worst luck at vulching.. there, I'm an expert at killshooting.  I'm also really good at finding a guy in an osti that can hit shiny ponies at 1.6 or better.  Nooooo, vulching much too dangerous for me. :)




So do I.  I usually end up not paying attention to my fuel state and never have enough to RTB.


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