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Offline Rino

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« Reply #30 on: October 28, 2006, 05:18:30 PM »
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Skuzzy, please delete this thread. Everytime I read it my IQ drops 10 points.:huh


     Err..wouldn't that put you into negative numbers by now? :D
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« Reply #31 on: October 28, 2006, 06:51:03 PM »
no i am actually ranked in the 700's  you got people with 100-200 deaths ranked lower then me.. again .. its shows a problem in the ranking system

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« Reply #32 on: October 28, 2006, 07:03:58 PM »
also .. looking at the rankings..  people are like telling me saying i need to get a life cause i brag about having the most kills. but looking i noticed that  SHawk has 1924 kills in 168 hours .. LYNX has 1795 kills in 195 hours .. and i have 2323 kills in only 178 hours.. yet i am the one that needs a life?  also .. i have 2192 deaths.. i can sum more then 1600 of those deaths in less then a hour of those 178 hours i played. hers another DanoDano has a whoping 1958 kills in  245 hours. thats nearly 70 more hours and 400 less kills then me.   then you got people with like 50-60 hours with 300-400 sorties  less then 400 kills ranked in the top 20 ..

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« Reply #33 on: October 28, 2006, 07:15:06 PM »
wow, thats a lot of hours...you retired?

and why you are busy not caring about rank, can you tell me where I fall on your radar?
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« Reply #34 on: October 28, 2006, 08:05:57 PM »
I'd be curious to see what kind of screaming we'd see if the ranking system were taken out.

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« Reply #35 on: October 28, 2006, 08:57:33 PM »
i personally dont care about rank...  all this thread is pointing out is there a is a seriously flaw in the ranking system ..  and how it reflects everyone.  i will never be good at flying to even come close to being a top 10 or top 100 or top 200 for quite a while.  i simply dont think its fair that someone with 200-300 sories for the month should be ranks as high as they are.  when the avg number of sorties is well over 1000 .. or someone with 200 kills for the intire month etc etc etc. .. you got squads with no bomber, fighter or GV sorties and yet ranked 28th. how is that fair.. simply cause they havent upped or died in those categories ..  thats all i am pointing at.. yes this people have better %'s but with 200-300 sorties how does that compare with someone with 1000 sorties.. would they be ranked the same when compared equally? there needs to be some middle ground when comparing someone that barely plays and someone that plays what the average person plays..  maybe someone had a some great sorties. he vulched a cap field landed 30 kills or had a good spawn camp killed 50 gvs .. theres no way to distingish someone that vulches/steals/ho's kills from someone that flys and earns kills 1 on 1 .. etc

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« Reply #36 on: October 29, 2006, 12:42:21 PM »
Although, I must admit. Handy does hold the record for the longest run-on sentence ever. Maybe an English and Grammer course in his future?:rolleyes:


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« Reply #37 on: October 29, 2006, 06:52:42 PM »
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Although, I must admit. Handy does hold the record for the longest run-on sentence ever. Maybe an English and Grammer course in his future?:rolleyes:


I could point out that you misspelled grammar, but I won't.
I won't mention that you erroneously capitalized english and grammar in your sentence. either.
Nor will I point out that your first statement is a sentence fragment.

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« Reply #38 on: October 29, 2006, 09:55:48 PM »
LOL .. now thats funny ..

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« Reply #39 on: October 29, 2006, 10:47:28 PM »
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Lotsa people, apparently, thus the shade accounts, hecklacious vulching and killstealing, etc. etc. ad nauseum.


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« Reply #40 on: October 30, 2006, 12:16:05 AM »
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i personally dont care about rank...     i simply dont think its fair that someone with 200-300 sories for the month should be ranks as high as they are.  


ummm... I'm confused.

That's a lot like saying "I don't care about the price of gas. But now I can't drive my car because gas prices are too high"  

:lol

(His idea sounds like an improvement though)
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« Reply #41 on: October 30, 2006, 10:38:13 AM »
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I could point out that you misspelled grammar, but I won't.
I won't mention that you erroneously capitalized english and grammar in your sentence. either.
Nor will I point out that your first statement is a sentence fragment.

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I knew it!!! Scottydawg is really Mr. Costello from 10th grade!!!:D
Man I hated that guy.:mad:


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« Reply #42 on: October 30, 2006, 10:44:42 AM »
this thing still going?:lol
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« Reply #43 on: October 30, 2006, 10:46:02 AM »
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I knew it!!! Scottydawg is really Mr. Costello from 10th grade!!!:D
Man I hated that guy.:mad:


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« Reply #44 on: October 30, 2006, 02:32:54 PM »
Personally I don't think it should change.  Back in the old Air Warriors days all you had to do to rank high is fly fly fly.  I like the fact that you dont have to fly 10000 missions to rank you where you SHOULD BE RANKED based on your skill.  I hear you all whining about vulchers and spawn campers and stuff.  Thats just part of the game and my guess is that each of you has done it too at some time.  If you want to keep the vulching down keep em away from the field!  Same goes for spawn campers.  By the way, when you're trying to cap a field what are you suggesting... that you let all the enemy planes up because vulching's not fair?  Like I said, it's all part of the game and so, by the way is the scoring system.  Part of the game is beating the enemy.  The other part is "beating" the game by maximizing your scoring opportunities, hopefully within the context of trying to win the war.  I used to have a problem with the buff pilots milk-running the factories but I finally realized that they're providing a service by keeping the enemy re-supply soft.  Ultimately the game will balance itself out.  If 25 guys are all trying to vulch the same field none of them are going to get many kills.  If 2 guys are vulching the'll get the kills but the likelyhood of an enemy getting airborn is also much higher.  If too many guys are milk-running pretty soon there's nothing left to hit.  if one guys doing it he'll score like crazy but the factories will mostly survive.

Just my take on it.
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