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Offline GooseAW

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« Reply #15 on: January 25, 2007, 02:47:37 PM »
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Rank doesn't mean squat in this game. It's the Kill to Death ratio that catches my eye.  


If it matter to him than it matters........Man I get tired of this self righteous BS........some o you guys need to form your own opinion instead of ridin the coat tails of some self proclaimed uber furballer. This is not a direct attack against you uptown as I don't know you in the slightest. but it's my honest reaction to everyone who parrots a similar statement to the one you made above...

I agree with LTARghst, as the scoring goes that is a ridiculous way to score GV hit percentage. And GV score doesn't matter to me in the slightest.

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« Reply #16 on: January 25, 2007, 02:51:06 PM »
Rank in this game is a joke.  A few of us played the score game for a day and went from 300 something to the top 10 just by following a set of score rules.  Something like hit towns or strats with PT rockets, shoot strats with this vehicle, etc.  It is a bunch of BS.  That is why the top scores for the month are a big joke.  They mean nothing to anyone except those that need to boost thier ego by seeing thier name in lights.  If you want to play the score game, more power to you.  

Score does NOT make you a good player.  In this game, score means you learned how to game the game and spent some time out where nobody could shoot at you.  There are those with good scores that have earned that score through solid play though, don't get me wrong.  But there are a majority that just play score potato.

As for GVs hitting strat targets for score.  That's just plan lame but you go for it.  When it comes to one on one in a tank battle, I would be willing to bet that after the first two or three times I blast you rear back to the tower, you will be upping in your carpet bombing Lancs to come back for the "I'll show them".  :rofl Yeah, you will show us alright.  That your score is all fluff. :p

Stat targets are an important part of the game and if the players with low self esteem need to have thier names in lights, so be it.  Rooks, Knights and Bishops all know the truth.  That is what all the laughing is each month when the tops scores are announced. It is good for comic relief.

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« Reply #17 on: January 25, 2007, 02:55:15 PM »
Just get rid of the ranking system, sense ranks gives you nothing but bragging rights anyway, you don't get any special plane or gv (mumbles under breath just a ego thing IMO)

I play for fun and the friendships ive made weither i'm flying a plane or going in a GV, the games supposed to be about FUN.

one thing i do find interesting is the bombers that fly around tank town padding there scores :aok
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« Reply #18 on: January 25, 2007, 03:03:21 PM »
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They mean nothing to anyone except those that need to boost thier ego by seeing thier name in lights

:rofl

Didnt you start this post?
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« Reply #19 on: January 25, 2007, 03:05:32 PM »
who really cares about ranks?

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« Reply #20 on: January 25, 2007, 03:06:26 PM »
But wouldn't it be nice if they did reflect within reason, who the best of the best are each tour. Then you could look at the board and say "man if I practice a little more maybe someday I can beat ##### in a 1v1 or in a heads up tank fight." Or my squad made top ten in Bombers, or GV!

There will always be the gamers gaming the system but why not raise issue with the obvious blatent flaws in the system. If you don't say it...it didn't happen.

Scores and stats, not ranks neccessarily are a great way to guage your own improvement in a game that is obviously VERY important to most of us (looking at the hours that most spend online). Wouldn't it be great if rank was an accurate reflection of your score and stats? I think it would. We all know who the blatant score potatos are...it's obvious. But hit percentage is a very important stat and because of the issue that ghst has raised, not for the first time I might add, GV hit percentage is totally meaningless. IMO

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« Reply #21 on: January 25, 2007, 03:20:58 PM »
Well I would be willing to bet..that I could make 98 percent of the top ten go poof in no time in GV. I am not one who usually spawn camps..no patience for it. Now if they are upping like crazy I will meet em out there. But alot of these so called top ranked GVers to me IMHO are a joke. Rank is a dead issue cause it is a joke but it just yanks my osti to see it gamed that way.

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« Reply #22 on: January 25, 2007, 03:22:20 PM »
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Utterly worthless. Until HT takes out strat targets! Sorry but it irks me to see people who are worthless in GV's and only hit strats have a top GV ranking. There are some bad *** GV'ers who get screwed in this..Trauma...TripleD...Sher ri, and a few others. Sorry but I was upset to see someone who only hits strats in the top. HT take out the damn Strats and make it fair for the honest GV'ers.


IMO,

There are very few bad***GVers that I have seen.  Certainly Zazen in an Osti, Hooter in any tank, Dr7, and a few others.  Those you mention are bad*** spawn campers.  Roll out from oposite sides of an open field and bang it out gun for gun.  Thats the only way to determine.  Real tank conflict had nothing to do with roasting marshmallows.  I have 695 vehicle kills so far this month to 245 deaths.  Most of those came from being bombed while tanking.  However I don't mind that as much as I do Sherri(not an attack on Sherri) rolling out in a jeep to kill me in my Tiger.  Yeah that is Bad*** Gving? Right.  Death from above is something that is a reality in ground war.  Being killed by enemies camping out "spawns" is not.

How could someone only hitting Strats be ranked in the top when half the scoring is vrs. enemies?

Basically it's been said before. To get a good score you must do things needed to accomplish that.  Some people could care less about thier overall score or even any segment of it, but also some people enjoy monitoring and improving their score and I think the game would be lacking without some sort of scoring in place.  Hitting Strats is closer to the real thing than camping, for sure.  I'm not defending hitting strats or the current scoring system, rather just replying because your post seems a bit off when using terms like "honest Gv'ers".

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« Reply #23 on: January 25, 2007, 03:42:42 PM »
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Utterly worthless. Until HT takes out spawns! Sorry but it irks me to see people who are worthless in GV's and only camp spawn points have a top GV ranking. There are some bad *** GV'ers who get screwed in this..Trauma...TripleD...Sher ri, and a few others. Sorry but I was upset to see someone who only spawn camps at the top. HT take out the damn spawns and make it fair for the "honest" GV'ers.


Fixed your post ;)

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« Reply #24 on: January 25, 2007, 03:51:27 PM »
Im wondering why this post continues if rank dosent matter. Looks like somebody needs to boost there ego with rank or this post never would have started. People are gonna play the way they wanna play. Who cares if the rank system is messed up. If you are so sure  that u can kill the top 10 ranked guyz than shut up and do it and be happy with the fact thats its been done. This whole thing is stupid IMO. If rank means nothing to you guyz than why even complain about the people that play this way or the way they play. This is a strategic game. If you play it that way then hitting strat targets is important. Cough up my 14.95 and ill change my playing style.
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« Reply #25 on: January 25, 2007, 07:45:29 PM »
Well if that is your opinion kamilyun so be it. These guys that i seen with top gv rank. Their k/d is horrible but their hit point percentage is ip there for buildings and such. Not much field captures either. This is not about spawn camping. Spawn campers unless they are good never last very long.

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« Reply #26 on: January 25, 2007, 07:56:31 PM »
A K/D is not a way of saying who is the best in the game.  Anyone can spawn camp and anyone can BnZ all day in a fast plane... **cough la7 cough**  Get guys in regular fights that are on equal grounds and then you can start telling who is better than the other... but then again some of us have lucky days.
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« Reply #27 on: January 25, 2007, 08:07:17 PM »
GV's ARE rank.

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« Reply #28 on: January 25, 2007, 08:15:41 PM »
No, sorry. Score has a place. I use it constantly. I really like to know what I need to do to get it lower (on my end. I'm not asking for advice). I'm not talking about gaming the game. Stuff like trying to land at least two kills. Try to at least land. Precision bombing in B-17's. This month, I'm working on my jagdbomber skills (which I'm horrible at) and trying to figure out why my accuracy has gone to hell in the B-17 (something really screwy going on there). Since I haven't figured out how to score a base capture in the "attack" column, that will probably always elude me.

Oh, I'll probably play with "the list". Up until the novelty wears off. But my point is, the scoring system has it's place and can be a powerful tool in improving a players ability.

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« Reply #29 on: January 25, 2007, 08:31:23 PM »
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Well if that is your opinion kamilyun so be it. These guys that i seen with top gv rank. Their k/d is horrible but their hit point percentage is ip there for buildings and such. Not much field captures either. This is not about spawn camping. Spawn campers unless they are good never last very long.


My point (through the sarcasm) was that there are multiple ways to game the game and game the scorz to become a high ranking pwnzorer.

Once the strats disappear, the next problem will be spawn camping which would artificially increase K/D and K/H just b/c someone is sitting behind a spawn with his/her buddies and the occasional supplier.  I'd venture to say that there are far more complaints about spawn camping than scorzp@dd1ng anyway.

At any rate, I've never met a "good" spawn camper.  :D

And BTW, plz don't take this personally b/c I love you LTARs.  You guys keep the vulchers at bay :)