posting top scores on home page

[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

[SuperDud]

Some can be neither. Only reason why score bothers me is because it just gives someone a reason to run away.

[Brooke]

I like it for two reasons.  First, people have to play a lot to get top score, and getting recognition for that is OK by me.  It might promote playing a lot of AH, which I'm in favor of.  Second, I'd bet the top scorers are generally skilled pilots.

[wetrat]

Originally posted by SuperDud
Some can be neither. Only reason why score bothers me is because it just gives someone a reason to run away.  

Well said.

[wetrat]

Originally posted by Brooke
I'd bet the top scorers are generally skilled pilots.

That's a sucker's bet. You'd lose some good money with that assumption.

[Schatzi]

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

[Pooface]

yeah, only new guys really think rank is an indicator of pilot skill, the whole score thing does annoy me, maybe it would be better to just have player stats on the score page, instead of an actual rrank, saying that you are 1583rd most skilled in the game.

score means nothing to me, im first to rush into a furball of any odds, and my k/d ratio shows it lol, i think its 1.5 or slightly over, and thats only because of finding a bomber mission in a 262 the other night





thing is though, that score has no effect on how good a pilot is, all the vets know it, only the noobs and scorepotatos care about it

[Delirium]

Score is meaningless... we are here to have fun, it is just a game.

Do I get shot down? Yea, a whole lot and I really don't care... heck, I think I've landed less than half my flights.

Who cares? We can always reup in another pristine P38 fully fueled and re-armed.

[TalonX]

I enjoy flying all aspects of the game, including GV's.  I do not claim to be a skilled pilot.   I am better than average in fighters, bombers, and GV's.  Over the course of a month, my rank drops to a very low level.    The only thing I did this month that would remotely be score whoring, was to torpedo some barges that were near my CV.

Next thing you know, I have a low rank.

What does it mean?  You can have a low rank with average or slightly better skills.

[Furball]

Rank is easy to achieve if you want it.  any of the better sticks will have a low fighter rank anyway without even going for it just by the way they fly.  All it would take is another 5 or so sorties doing the rankpotato stuff and they would be top 50 (or likely much lower).

[Hoarach]

Ummmm....whats rank?  

To me rank is just for those people that think that theyre better than everyone else saying you must suck since your rank is bad and that Im so much better than you cause my rank is so good.  Only good thing about rank is get to mess with the cv.  

[Mace2004]

I can understand some of the complaints about scores but it has it's advantages.  For one thing, we all prize "realism" in the game, right?  Since we have the ultimate "unrealism" of being able to immediately reup a new plane there is little motivation for flying smart and flying smart is what made the best aces, not just "stick and rudder" skills.  If you look at the best RL aces, you'll find the same thing.  Wasn't it the Baron that said something like 80 percent of the guys he shot down never saw him?  My point is that keeping score motivates some to fly smarter and thus more realistically.   Is it irritating when a guy dives through a furball, picks off one or two, then zooms away, and lands his kills (and perk points)?  Sure.  I really like the hurri but then I have a hard time chasing down an M-8 so I'm at a huge disadvantage against these guys but I don't have a problem with someone who is motivated to do something other than knife-fight.  Sure, I might taunt the guy to try to get him to do something stupid but ultimately, he plays his games and I play mine.  If he's motivated by his score or perk points, great, its the only way we have of stimulating a need for "self preservation".  If you want a strong argument for keeping (or even expanding) the score and perk point system look at the most irritating and unrealistic thing (besides the uber knife-fighting IL-2s) in this game. The suicide 190 porking a base.  The guy probably doesn't give a damn about his score and thus does something incredibly unrealistic.  (Show me the guy in WWII that would take a mission like this just to kill some tents)   Wish we could find a way to up the cost to the players for doing stuff like this but I don't have any idea how we'd do it.  But if we could maybe we'd see a lot more teamwork and coordinated attacks.

Mace

[Furball]

Originally posted by Mace2004
The suicide 190 porking a base.  The guy probably doesn't give a damn about his score and thus does something incredibly unrealistic.  (Show me the guy in WWII that would take a mission like this just to kill some tents)   Wish we could find a way to up the cost to the players for doing stuff like this but I don't have any idea how we'd do it.

Maybe HT should charge a dollar a death on people's credit cards.  Heck, he would be a millionairre after 1 month from the FB's alone!

hi fb's!

[ColKLink]

So you mean the extra 20 bucks i been sending to keep my score respectable, has been a waste of money? dang

[LePaul]

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

Its a game, if those that think score means everything...like some on my Squad, then knock yourself out.  Also check how many hours they play...each to their own...I dont have that much time to game...and if I did, still wouldnt spend that much time