OK, I know you've all been waiting for this.
#1 - There is NOTHING wrong with the scoring system.
Here's why. Any Person in the Game can achieve any level of play they choose and their score reflects it. If they fly around like a Timid weenie ALL THE TIME, their Kills to Time takes a beating. But this Helps the Kills to Death. If they fly in a constant furball ALL THE TIME their Kills to Death takes a beating. But this Helps their Kills to Time. Ect. Ect. Ect.
To achieve a good score requires balance. I achieve this with Efficiency. Meaning if I up a plane, gv, bomber whatever... I try to use it to it's maximum cababilities.
Lets say I up a Dora in Fighter mode. The Main Goal is to Kill as many fighters and bombers as possible in as little time as possible and land them quickly. Flying 2 sectors to get to 25K is moronic, because most of the kills are 15K or below. Besides after you get the kills you've still gotta fly back 2 sectors to land em. Try finding a fight nearby that you can fly to and back from in a shorter amount of time. Secondary goal is to use up my planes resources at the same time. If you finally get to the fight and don't have fuel to use the rest of your ammo, you didn't bring enough fuel. At the same time if you load your plane down with fuel and land with 1/2 your gas and no ammo, you took way to much. Moderation and efficiency is the key.
Know when it's time to leave. Greed Kills. If you run out of fuel because you weren't paying attention, then you deserve to die or be captured.
If you get 2-4 kills and fly home with fuel and ammo because you didn't want to lose the kills, your not efficient. Remember this, If you Die with 5-6 in the bag. It's actually helping your kills/time ratio because you didn't waste all that time flying home. Their are many levels of Timid.
They range from complete wuss to lets not fight 5 la7's at once. Try to fall somewhere in the middle.
There are many levels of Stupid too. But at the same time if your constantly defending bases you probably couldn't give a rats arse about your score. If you like getting vulched repeatedly, hey thats your bag. Not mine. Sure I get Vulched all the time, But it's a calculated risk, sometimes I get up and actually kill 2 or 3 or more and live to tell about it. but if the base is capped with 20 bad guys and your upping alone, your a balsy moron
I hear all the time that score doesn't matter. Well this is a game. All games have scores. How many times do you hear that the Steelers out played the Patriots at every level but still lost? Hmmmmmmm....
Baseball, Golf, Bowling, Football, Basketball and Aces High 2 all have scores but for those chosen few that want to make believe that the score counts in all of them except Aces High 2. Personally I play to win. If I don't win...well then someone else was better, and I best work on my game.
Well, I'm sure this will stir up an already boiling pot. I'm on Vacation until the 5th so I'll see ya then. (Camping in an RV and Riding Jetskii off into the sunset)
