Scoring as Attk

[Zazen13]

Originally posted by Husky01
You don't have to fly timid to be ranked in the top 5 in fighters.

Very true, wEtrat is a great example this tour. He rarely lands a hop, but has a super K/T. K/T is by farrrr the most competitive sub-stat. Once you get a 10 to 1 K/D you're locked in. Any more than that is a waste of time (therefore K/T) if your concern is your fighter score.

The absolutely most efficient way to rank highly as I think furball stated, is to up field defense vs. CV's where the enemy is relatively low n' slow and a 10 second flight away and kill as many as possible as quickly as possible dying in the attempt if possible (save you wasted time rtb'ing). If you kill a good many each hop and land once in a while your K/D will be just fine and your K/T will be super...

Flying timidly and/or to survive actually hurts your fighter rank...Some people who fly timidly may rank well in fighter but it is in spite of that not because of it.

Zazen

[LYNX]

BaldEagl

I can respect that  

[FALCONWING]

Originally posted by SteveBailey
Although I do not consider myself an elite pileit, I am in the squad you are baiting.  Go ahead, find the last time I was in Tempest, 262, or F4U-C.  

You, however Falcon, have almost ALL your kills this tour in a spit 16, F4U-C, 262,  and LA7.

I log on, switch sides to the team with the lowest number of players, and up my plane towards the biggest enemy darbar I can find.(If I can avoid it, I stay away from TT island). I do this every single night. This means I spend just about my entire playing time defending bases.  Last night it was 19 and V6 mostly, for instance.

You cast a big net with your foolish stereotype.

Steve

wasnt a stereotype steve, it was an observation of the fiting styles that result in top fiter rankings..look at number 1 and number 2 fiter score from last month....

im sure not every member of any squad flies exactly the same way or with the same motivation...but when i have run into large groups of your squad there is a pattern to the behavior...this is of course exacerbated by the fact that several members of your squad live on ch 200 and seem to enjoy "conflict" for lack of a better word...otherwise i dont think i would even know your squad existed...but when multiple 262s/tempests consistently show up at pure furballs one gets curious as to whom they are...and why they are flying those planes in that setting...

lusche flies in a similar manner but i respect him in the sense that he doesnt need to broadcast his l33tn3ss and when he dies he doesnt get on ch 200 and berate those who killed him...he doesnt type "I own XXXX" all over the BBS and open ch.

i wasnt commenting as much on the type of planes as the manner in which they are flown and the desired results...and the behaviors...

as for myself, i think anyone who pays attention knows that i am a defender and furballer except on monday nights when i run squad ops...i rarely have numbers to support me and NEVER have alt/e advantage...i DO pick whichever plane will work the best for the situation...the FACT that i fly low eny planes should be a clue that i am usually in the arena where the bish are outnumbered and thus have the ability to choose these planes...i have NEVER been called a scorepotato or milkrunner yet i am typically in the top ranks with the least time on...

I DO fly fiter mode when odds are i will survive AND like many it is simply a game i play with myself to see how well i can do from a k/d standpoint...not for ranking...i will never fly enough to build up the points needed to stay high in fiter scoring.

im sorry if i upset you steve...you seem like a standup guy and honestly i had no idea you had joined that squad...for some reason i thought you were in SHawk's squad...

if you dont like getting caught in nets, you may want to look around at those you choose to swim with...

[stickpig]

Originally posted by E25280
Simple answer -- more people assume they will be in "attack" type situations rather than purely furballing.

Even simpler answer -- WHO CARES.

Geesh, some of you folks should worry more about finding your own way to have fun rather than obsessing over how others play the game.

Well I was curious for one.  I like checking my progress from tour to tour.
If things are the same for me I like to evaluate what i can do better.

So i was asking to see if I was not getting a good read on things by having my plane set broke out into different catagories.

I usally have fighter type planes marked as fighters and F6F's 110's, P-38's marked as Attk.

Now I will help deack or take out GV's, finish off a twn etc alot of times while in a fighter.  (did not know GV kills didn't count in fighter mode)

So as a rebuttal to your statement I'm not obsessed ....just wanted an answer to a question.

[E25280]

Originally posted by stickpig
So as a rebuttal to your statement I'm not obsessed ....just wanted an answer to a question.

Ooooooooh . . . sorry.  Your "simple question," alone and adrift in a sea of whine-posts, was mistaken for a "they game the game / get rid of rank" type whine.  So, although I do not retract my sentiment generally, I humbly apologize for directing it at the undeserving.  

(This isn't the first time someone who is trying to have a conversation finds himself embroiled in an argument instead.)

So, let me reconsider my answer:  I fly attack because I can't find the "fighter" button for my IL2.

[Toad]

There really are two modes? Imagine that.

Next you'll be telling me you can actually fly the bombers.

What will HT think of next?

[stickpig]

Originally posted by E25280


So, let me reconsider my answer:  I fly attack because I can't find the "fighter" button for my IL2.

Fair enough  

[Platano]

+1

[killnu]

Flcn...you almost made me spit on my monitor...almost.

[Guppy35]

Oh if only any of it mattered.

I still prefer the simple approach, being simple minded like I am.

Up low numbers side in the old 38G, stagger to 3-4K, let folks know you are coming, wade in and die.

Wash rinse repeat.

Every so often get into one of those knock down drag out fights that keeps ya coming back for more.

I love the fact that they give me a new plane every time too.

More power to all of ya that pay attention to that rank/score stuff.  I just can't bring myself to care

Maybe someday when I grow up............

[ColKLink]

Ord, I rarely leave home without it.