Author Topic: secret to perfect score again (Read 2138 times)

DipStick · « **Reply #45 on:** July 16, 2004, 08:35:50 PM »

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Originally posted by DoctorYO
Note 1/4 of his kills are rooks.. He avoids us as he should.... (we got more aces)

DoctorYo

That should be (we got more asses)

AKWarp · « **Reply #46 on:** July 16, 2004, 11:30:16 PM »

I use score just as a measure of how I am doing compared to last tour in general. I usually carry high 30's or low 40's...all legit and hard earned.

Stang · « **Reply #47 on:** July 16, 2004, 11:44:41 PM »

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Usually I die to my own ack (IF I die) chasing a dweeb that wants to run in and hit a target first, because he knows he is going to die, and die fast. Yes, your own ack is more deadly to you, than it is to him.

Hmmm, perhaps the ack is actually shooting at YOU. Wouldn't surprise me if somehow it was...

Rank sucks, but "clueless dolts" suck more.

JB73 · « **Reply #48 on:** July 17, 2004, 03:00:51 AM »

hmm 39 posts and yet shane does not respond to the disputal of his original post.

why does that not suprise me.. shane backing down from a challenge to what he stated? kinda like michale moore, what shane says is fact.... end all be all ..... huh?

like i said no suprise. what a wuss. cant fess up when confronted with stating something incorrect so much like the MA,

whoops thats something called the ignore list i just clicked on
bye

Shane · « **Reply #49 on:** July 17, 2004, 03:58:45 AM »

oh, i'm sorry. forgive me for my oversight, it's not so easy to tell FW's apart. they either explode or run away, can't get a close look at the new skins. And I can't be bothered to remember what's skinned as who.

Replicant · « **Reply #50 on:** July 17, 2004, 04:28:20 AM »

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Originally posted by mars01
Lets face it if someone is patient enough to do everything carefully and not take any risks, fly in the safest places etc these numbers are achievable. My hat is off to people who can do that. Personally I don't have the patience for this type of game. I like to push the edge and take risks. The current scoring system goes against this kind of mentality.

I originally flew for rank after Rude set me that tast back in 13th TAS days.

As for flying patiently, well, there's no need to. As long as your killing/hitting stuff you can die pretty much as often as you like as long as you kill more. Furballs are great for Fighter rank. Attack rank, well, must have something to do with actually being accurate at what you bomb or hit with cannons - i.e. VHs/GVs/Towns. Bombers are being used more for the huge towns or taking FHs down.

I believe some people think that flying carefully without taking risks is the way to achieve rank. It sure can be but it's what you make it. I've ended up being shot down several times experimenting with using rockets on fleets, afterall, it's the only way to learn. If a base is totally capped, no I won't up, perhaps a GV, but if a horde is inbound then I'll up something fast.

Only two things that catapult your rank high - base capture and PT Boat hitting something, rest of it should come naturally without the need for milkrunning.

LLv34 Teufel · « **Reply #51 on:** July 17, 2004, 04:58:44 AM »

Rank is a strange thing that can - like explained earlier in this thread - be improved without improving your skills. (PT-boat attacks etc)
The two main things that I think is wrong with the ranking system, is that the more you play the better your rank gets. This is because of the "points" rank which is not affected by deaths, sorties, or time.
The second is that what kind of plane you are flying have no effects on rank - only on perk points. Everything else equal, it is easier to get 5 kills in a spitIX, than in a C202. So if you like to fly the "underdog" planes, your rank will be worse than if you fly "good" planes.

That said I still think that ranking is fairly good to show how good a pilot you are. At least if talking about fighter rank. The good pilots tends to have a good ranking.

Regards

Steve · « **Reply #52 on:** July 17, 2004, 05:29:48 AM »

disputal?

DipStick · « **Reply #53 on:** July 17, 2004, 05:43:18 AM »

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Originally posted by LLv34 Teufel
That said I still think that ranking is fairly good to show how good a pilot you are. At least if talking about fighter rank. The good pilots tends to have a good ranking.

Wrong.

33Vortex · « **Reply #54 on:** July 17, 2004, 05:51:34 AM »

Yesterday I upped from A30 when it was under attack from both bish and rooks and isolated. Landed 3 or 4 sorties and a fair number of kills in a 109G-10, it was chaos and bandits in the air and GVs on the ground some of the most fun I've had in this game yet. The hard part when you fly alone (no wingman/squad) under such circumstances is to keep watching your six and maintain a high enough SA to spot attackers while still focusing on your target and maneuver to shoot him down.

Anyway, I play and fly for the kill, as simple as that, and the only stats I look at are fighter rank, kill/death ratio, # of kills and hit %. That's all I'm in in for. I love upping from a defending base in a 109 to take on the fighters, people tend to get sloppy when they think they have the upper hand, or they are just trying to bomb the base out and care less about being shot down.

As for the 190, if you don't run from a fight that you know you'd loose you're stupid imo. The only plane I fear when flying the 190 is the P51, it's faster, turns better and the only disadvantage it has really is climb rate, but that's rarely a factor.
Running from a 51 though is almost sure death for a 190 because he will catch you and he can turn better as well. So my advice to 190 pilots is fight the 51s and wait for his mistake, still he could run from you but hey that's a victory too.

=S=

Replicant · « **Reply #55 on:** July 17, 2004, 06:34:37 AM »

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Originally posted by LLv34 Teufel
That said I still think that ranking is fairly good to show how good a pilot you are. At least if talking about fighter rank. The good pilots tends to have a good ranking.

I disagree. Fighter Rank is scored mainly by how many kills you get per hour, hit percentage and damage. Death isn't a real issue. Someone who HOs everything in sight could have a high fighter rank but I wouldn't call them skillful.

DipStick · « **Reply #56 on:** July 17, 2004, 06:48:49 AM »

True Nexx not to mention I'd be willing to put Levi / Drex or a few others up against any of the top ten. They are all ranked low but some of us (not that I'm in their catagory) play for fun and the fight, not score. It's simply two completely different things.

LLv34 Teufel · « **Reply #57 on:** July 17, 2004, 07:51:24 AM »

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Originally posted by Replicant
I disagree. Fighter Rank is scored mainly by how many kills you get per hour, hit percentage and damage. Death isn't a real issue. Someone who HOs everything in sight could have a high fighter rank but I wouldn't call them skillful.

I agree. It is very possible to get a good rank even though you are not a good pilot. But like I said I still think that the good pilots tend to have a good ranking - at least they do in my squad. Mind that this does not mean that if you have a good ranking you are a good pilot. It does not go both ways.

*The good pilots tend to have a good ranking.
*The high ranking pilots tend to have any kind of skill (from bad to good)

Regards

68DevilM · « **Reply #58 on:** July 17, 2004, 08:12:38 AM »

after i created this post i realized that i may have given the impresion that all i care about is a perfect score, it's not.

i hover around the 300's,400's and by the end of the month sometimes 500's for my overall score and im content with these, it just amazes me when im in a dogfight with a good pilot and you know when he's good! and either you get him or he gets you ill check his score to learn more about him and ill see a 1 for overall and if i got him it makes me feel like i shot down an ace or if he got me i feel like i went up against the best and died ohh well right, i need to get better!

but then again there is always ways to get your score down to 1 and not be any better that the rest of us right? so there goes my theory

DipStick · « **Reply #59 on:** July 18, 2004, 02:01:05 AM »

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Originally posted by LLv34 Teufel
I agree. It is very possible to get a good rank even though you are not a good pilot. But like I said I still think that the good pilots tend to have a good ranking - at least they do in my squad. Mind that this does not mean that if you have a good ranking you are a good pilot. It does not go both ways.

*The good pilots tend to have a good ranking.
*The high ranking pilots tend to have any kind of skill (from bad to good)

Regards

LOL... Maybe it's a language thing but that makes absolutely no sense to me.