have a min number sorties for rank to count

[EagleDNY]

Originally posted by cav58d
Who cares about rank...

Rank is completely worthless except when you need to eject some newbie or spy from a CV so that you can turn it around.  Other than that, I can't see much use for it.  

I have a lot more respect for some guy taking one for the team by flying a goon, manning a flak, or upping against a horde to defend than I do the guy who lands a load o' vulches or cherry picks his way to higher rank.  

EagleDNY
$.02

[handy169]

i was going through the squad ranks and here is a example of how rank should have a minimum number of sorties to be ranked
 
Roster   Kills     Assists     Sorties     Landed     Bailed     Ditched     Captured     Death     Disco     Rank  
Purzel 50 4 38 21 0 0 3 13 1 2715
Maik 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 4554
def 0 0 3 0 2 0 0 1 0 4466
 
i dont know if you can notice it here but if you go to the squad rankings . look under Maik .. the squad has a total of like 50 kills.  no GV BOMBER or ATTACK kills and yet ranked 28 over all they have less then 50 stories between all of them .. 3 people

[Rino]

Originally posted by cav58d
Who cares about rank...

     I do!  Then I take a shower and I don't care anymore

[nickf620]

people shouldnt worry about rank that doesnt show skill of a pilot
if you want to know the skill of a fellow pilot take him up in  the d.a i personally wouldnt care if they took rank off permenantly cause pretty much all it does is give sub-par pilots bragging right and it gives them the "privilage" as they might think it
to talk down to newer pilots making them feel unwated in the game which means lower turnouts and smaller furballs:O
and i guess it goes without saying less hunks of metal to shoot out of the sky

[SHawk]

Originally posted by killnu
yea, all those high rank tards can do nothing but vulch and camp.  They cant beat anybody in a 1vs1, thats why they vulch.  lame I tell you, lame....the whole lot of them.  I guarentee if 04329492 got off the runway he would clean Shawks clock in a 1vs1.  Heck, only thing lamer than high ranking vulchers who suk are those who whine about ranks when they say they dont care about rank.

OMG Josh, thats some funny stuff:D

[SHawk]

I would like to personally thank handy169 for his contribution to my score.
Some day when his IQ comes up over single digits, maybe he'll quit upping a capped field. Of course he thinks I should just let him get airborne and shoot the troops as they drop into the map room. Well that is if he could do it without augering into a building.

[handy169]

shawk? how many kills of your many have been from 1 on 1 fighting?? based on my experience and observation. all you have done is expoited the scoring the game rules have given you. i would much rather give a higher ranking to someone that actually fights and earns his kills rather then vulching, blind-siding, steal thier kills. which is what you basically do.  as far as the topic of this post goes. people that have 100 sorties for the month and ranks in the top 10 shouldnt belong there.  etc etc etc.  as far as me upping.. i am defending my base.. and me flying 10 minutes from another base doesnt make sense if you got LVTS of the coast or a goon in close proximty to the maproom .. by the time i got there the base would already be taken.  even with all those deaths i am still ranked in the 700's which is still in the top 25% of the rankings.. i am not afraid of hurting my ranking to protect a base.. which is something you are. if you wasnt worried about a ranking i am sure you would be upping just as much as me.

[handy169]

oh on another note if hitech is reading this.. shawk types of people why people dont want to come back or play this game. just think of how much more revenue you could have if you didnt have people like him that took advantage of the game and mad the game unfun to play.

[BlueJ1]

Originally posted by handy169
oh on another note if hitech is reading this.. shawk types of people why people dont want to come back or play this game. just think of how much more revenue you could have if you didnt have people like him that took advantage of the game and mad the game unfun to play.

SO basically you want all the people out of the game that dosnt have fun the same way as you. Thats alot of people.

[killnu]

hahahaha  he vulched you so you want him gone?

[handy169]

no i am just simply point out the truth ..  how many more people would have stay if wasnt for people like Shawk.  if more people had stayed and played it would have equaled more money .. more money means the company might actually do something to answer some of these wishes people make. people that exploit the game for the sake of rank isnt what this game needs pure and simple.. as a player who likes a game you want new people to come and want to stay i dont know about you. but if you lose players less money to operate the game. and soon there is no game to play.  something needs to be done with the ranking system cause its seriously flawed.  once its fixed i bet shawk and those type people that exploit the game. thier rank isnt as great as it shows. hell i got over 2000 deaths and i am still ranked in the 700's  there are people with not even 200-300 deaths  that have worse rank then me.  i bet if i didnt up to protect my bases i would be in the 100's. but my country is more important then a number and thats where is it should be. lets put it this way .. if we capped a field and shawk was the only one free to protect if from capture.. he would let us take it rather then ruin his precious rank. i call that chicken.

[SHawk]

Skuzzy, please delete this thread. Everytime I read it my IQ drops 10 points.

[handy169]

i was looking at the ranking last night .. you have people with like 200 sorties the whole month ranked in the top 10. 2 -3 people with just over 300 sorties for the month. most of everyone else is averaging 1000+ sorties.  would those same people be ranked if they had 1000+ sorties.  those people dont deserve to be ranked just because their k/d ratios are good after a few sorties. i dont understand why its hard to grasp the concept .. its possible to have someone with 100  or less sorties be ranked number 1 at a end of the month . how is that fair to people that play everyday and care about thier rank.  and if you think i care about rank i wouldnt up on capped fields. or in the middle of a CV group with a PT.  i could give to rats arses about rank .. but its obviously flawed and those people that do care about rank are explotiing the game and are taking the fun this game posesses.  those people that have 1000+ sorties and ranked in the top 10 should be ranked higher then those that havent hardly played IMHO. and as far as your IQ dropping  shawk. i think that mullet is deflecting knowledge to your brain.

[Shifty]

Originally posted by handy169
but its obviously flawed and those people that do care about rank are explotiing the game and are taking the fun this game posesses.  

Going by this thread you care an awful lot about rank. So you must be taking the fun out of the game. I know your pissing and moaning is taking the fun out of this BBS.

[handy169]

i got 2100+ deaths and i care about rank??  ahhh?? did i miss something? i care about rank as far as it being given fairly. and the system in place isnt not fair.