posting top scores on home page

[Morpheus]

If it wasnt for uber rank, I wouldn't get laid. Chicks dig Aces High Virtual Rank.

[DREDIOCK]

Originally posted by Schatzi
Yeah, IMHO the "top sticks" are usually ranked between 1000 and 500 overall rank. But then... rank means s*** where skill is concerned.

I tend to strongly agree.
Top ranked pilot is pretty good. And an all around cool guy.
 But he is by far not the best in the game.

Not hard to get a good ranking.
Stick with the hoard to avod being killed too much,Do a little bit of this, a little bit of that. and badabing, your in the top 100

[iluvu2]

Originally posted by meddog
HT can do what ever he pleases but in my opinion i'm not sure posting the top score potatos on the home page is condusive to a positive playing environment.  When this happends, people start worring more about their scores and start playing less as a team.  You can be a team player or you can be a score potato but you cant be both.  Just my opinion

 First of all I kill CV's I bomb hangers , ammo or troops.  i'll take tank to help capture base. will always ask whatever team i'm on if guy needs help with con.  always helping what ever team i'm on. I have seen pacerr, Lynx, and flown with  and against everyone in top 10. only guy I've never seen kill troops or bomb cv or kill town is Shawk and this is probally only cause not same time schedule,But I have seen him Defend a base out numbered  many times. So for you idea that top players don't fly for team. Is well probally just envy no other reason for your comments based on no info just whine...................



 Isn't A man in Top 20 i wouldn't call team player.

[LYNX]

Originally posted by meddog
HT can do what ever he pleases but in my opinion i'm not sure posting the top score potatos on the home page is condusive to a positive playing environment.  When this happends, people start worring more about their scores and start playing less as a team.  You can be a team player or you can be a score potato but you cant be both.  Just my opinion

My first thoughts on this..."what a load of bollock".

The part about "u can't be both" is so very very wrong and I take exception to your opinion.

I am usually in AH top 10 (over all rank).  I don't seek "home page" fame although I have been on it as number 1 bomber.  I seek rank for 1 reason only and that's to command CV's.  Hate to watch a pre- organised attack go tits up because some " clever" captain drives the CV past 2 SB's or HO's an enemy CV / PT / PT spawn or turns our CV to early / to late when bombers attack.

I did say "pre-organised".  From that you should deduce an element of err "TEAM PLAY".  Infact my attack rank is usually higher than my fighter rank and thats because I'm usually nailing a town or field strat while the err (caugh) other "TEAM PLAYERS" vulch the field. (where I could be earning fighter rank)

I'll blow my "TEAM" trumpet some more.  How many of you team players have "Field Gun" in favourites? How many of you team players know how to auto range the 8 Inch correctly?... any of you team players got the foggiest of what I'm on about?  Very few I would guess.

So as far as getting rank.  Yes I work at it but nowhere near the extent some of you team players would think.  Any great advantages to rank?  As far as I'm concerned just the ability to "SAVE" the freakin CV oh and write messages using the way point markers.

Any disadvantages to rank?  Well to some degree maybe there is.  Depending on the game you play.  If you wish to stick to some elements of realisium there are NO disadvantages as this is how the whole scoring card was intended but if your a click fly die type the bad news is you gotta land

As for guys that consistently cry "rank don't mean chit" I'll bat back with these opinions.  They are in a couple a catagories.  Guys that are plainly new or nearly new.  The skill-less or can't be arsed to learn.  Guys that turn in for 2 hrs on a Sunday night.  Guys that have weak or low systems.......
(no fault of their own and NO ridicule intended).                             Guys that have a "Quake" mentallity the click "fly die" types.  The pork and auger.  The bomb and bailers.  The "aces low" crew GV'ers and lastly, with some respect, the pure fighter pilot although there are very few about.  By that I mean you can check everyones score and everyone does a little oh this a little oh that.

Meddog I consider myself a true team player and consistantly rank in the overall top ten and what you would consider a score potato.

[ROC]

What a wonderful concept, post the high scores on the main page.  There, you reward those who strive for recognition as the top scoring people with actual recognition and praise/envy from like minded people.

What's even more wonderful is no one is forced to either read who is the top scoring person, nor fly to better their score.  

Go figure, the best of both worlds.

A person can fly most days or nights with the sole intention of improving their score, then on their squad nights or organized MA missions, die in valient and self sacraficing methods to better the overall mission.

What is amazing to me is how many people do not grasp the concept of billions of people and opinions, but there can only be 2 ways to think of something, one of them inevitibly is their way which happens to be the only right way.

This game has more ways to play it and enjoy it, limited only to each persons imagination, yet most of the topics in here are related to someone not liking how someone Else plays and thinking they have a say in the matter.

Stunning really.  What a waste of energy.

[wetrat]

The only problem I have with the ranking system is when guys who suck fly to protect their fighter score. Running, high-alt sissery, etc... if I can get a high rank in a fighter furballing on the deck, why can't you? The answer to the sissies? Because you suck and should learn how to fight

[Rolex]

To each, his own. Some people can step up any waning interest in the game by trying to learn all aspects of it - the result being that their rank improves.

If your interest is capturing fields and team play, a few high ranking players are far more likely to actually accomplish something than a 10 lower-ranking players. They don't lawndart, auger in, they actually knockout the targets that need to be hit, they anticipate and not just react, they can choose the right aircraft or vehicle for the task, etc.

I've found most of the higher ranked Rooks are good team players, so perhaps it's an issue only for Knights, meddog?

[LYNX]

Originally posted by wetrat
The only problem I have with the ranking system is when guys who suck fly to protect their fighter score. Running, high-alt sissery, etc... if I can get a high rank in a fighter furballing on the deck, why can't you? The answer to the sissies? Because you suck and should learn how to fight

Are you sure your chacing Alt monky score hores or just assuming because the guy climbs away he's a score hore?

The reason I ask is becuase taking ages to land kills can actually work against the fighter score.  To manipulate fighter rank I think Zazen (could be wrong) proved statistically that  5 or 6 kills with 1 death in 3 or 4 min is scored better than landing 5 or 6 kills in 30 min or more.

I am willing to be proved wrong on the above point.  In your defence if it's just me with 3 or more bads guys there is absolutly no point diving in for the furball.  I'll just get shot down...pointless waist of my time.  I will however rope the living crap outta ya and make good my escape with kills and approx 10 % ammo for safe landing.

[mars01]

If scores were weighted by odds HT might have something.

I.E. - Any attack where the odds are even are scored equally, any attack where the odds favor one side or the other and a score adjusts by the odds.

Also take the fighter and attack check box away and make any attack on an object on the ground reflect Attack and any attack on an object not on the ground is scored as fighter.  This way people who select fighter are not penalized when they are shooting ack, gvs or Lvts.

As for the web page, who cares.  Anyone who has a clue knows who the good sticks are and most know the wannabes too.

[Cobra412]

If being a "score potato" means flying intelligently and disengaging from a fight when the situation turns extremely bad then I guess there's alot of "score potatos" out there.

It seems we are back to the you must fly my way bs. Do a couple of searches on furballers vs. tool shed killers. No one here is ever pleased just to play the game. Everyone has an issue with the game in one way or the other. The only difference is you have the same folks who come on here pissing and moaning and telling everyone how it should be.

Who really cares about scoring?

[wetrat]

I just want people to fight me

[outbreak]

who cares if they Post the best Scores on the Main Page, Its very easy to ignore them, Just block them out of your head and goto a happy place, Like just imagine Ripping through a Rooks 262 with your C47 and Winning! That would Pwn all others LOL

[ROC]

lol outbreak.  If I was flying the 262 then the C-47 would Clearly have the advantage.

[outbreak]

Originally posted by ROC
lol outbreak.  If I was flying the 262 then the C-47 would Clearly have the advantage.

LMAO   , C47 just ram into ur 262 taking both engines and Duck Taping them in place of the C47s old Props, Turbo Powered C47.

[eskimo2]

Take from the game and enjoy the game as you wish.  Many people PLAY THE GAME as HT designed it to be played and strive for rank; so what?  Is the best basketball player out there the one who scores the most points, the one who helps his team the most, the one who does the coolest tricks, or some other definition?

Aces High could be scored a thousand different ways; so what?  The player who ranks number one IS the best PLAYER OF THE GAME, as it was designed  by The Lord of the Game: High Tech.  

Get over it already.

eskimo