End of Proxy kills! Give the Ack Weenies their credits!

[Simaril]

When I first started, they did NOT count-- and I remember things exactly as Skyrock remembers them. I also remember (way back when)specifically checking the exact same way as Lusche did -- and finding the opposite result, that the proxy did not count on score but did count on stat.

[SkyRock]

Originally posted by Simaril
When I first started, they did NOT count-- and I remember things exactly as Skyrock remembers them. I also remember (way back when)specifically checking the exact same way as Lusche did -- and finding the opposite result, that the proxy did not count on score but did count on stat.

That is exactly what I remember back when I was #'s dude and checked score constantly.

[E25280]

Originally posted by SkyRock
That is exactly what I remember back when I was #'s dude and checked score constantly.

If there is still any doubt, I have not flown a "fighter" sortie at all this tour.  It shouldn't be too hard to find an out-of-the-way place in the EW arena to quickly and diffinitively test this.  If someone augers near me and gives me a proxy fighter kill, it will either give me a fighter K/D rank of some kind, or I will continue to show a 0 K/D ratio.  Any takers, please PM me.

<< EDIT >>
I went to the EW arena and found Kilz.  He agreed to auger next to my Hurri I.  I now have one proxy kill in a fighter.  You can confirm it was a proxy by my hit % which is still showing zero.

The proxy kill is already showing on my scores page.  When ranks recalculate tomorrow, we will be able to see if it is better than the current "unranked" 5103 level.

[SkyRock]

Originally posted by E25280
If there is still any doubt, I have not flown a "fighter" sortie at all this tour.  It shouldn't be too hard to find an out-of-the-way place in the EW arena to quickly and diffinitively test this.  If someone augers near me and gives me a proxy fighter kill, it will either give me a fighter K/D rank of some kind, or I will continue to show a 0 K/D ratio.  Any takers, please PM me.

<< EDIT >>
I went to the EW arena and found Kilz.  He agreed to auger next to my Hurri I.  I now have one proxy kill in a fighter.  You can confirm it was a proxy by my hit % which is still showing zero.

The proxy kill is already showing on my scores page.  When ranks recalculate tomorrow, we will be able to see if it is better than the current "unranked" 5103 level.

great!  Even though I'm already convinced that it will show by all the score dweebs telling me it is!:D

[E25280]

Originally posted by SkyRock
great!  Even though I'm already convinced that it will show by all the score dweebs telling me it is!:D

Almost forgot about this . . .

I checked my score, and my fighter rank moved up from the rock-bottom 5103 to a merely abysmal 2499 off of my single proxy kill.  

I know you (and others) were already convinced, but it never hurts to back what we already know with hard data . . . keeps us from "knowing" things that just aren't true.

[sparow]

Hi all,

First, thank you all for your feedback. Secondly, I am afraid we went a bit off topic over here...

It turned out in a score analisys thread, instead debating if a proxy kill is a good thing or not and if automatic ack should or should not be counted separately.

Proxies:
I understand that luring a oposing aircraft into lawndarting or augering is a nice thing! I agree on that! But it is impossible to know when you do that intencionally or it happened by chance...So, I would not count it as a kill for anyone, only as a death for the auguring pilot.

But it would count as a kill to anyone, who had put 1 .303 round into it...damage or no damage...

Ack Weenies
I'm talking about automatic ack, not manned ack. If an auto ack kills a player, kill should be awarded to "Ack", not to the closest player around. Kill goes to who damaged the most, assist for the next ones...

Cheers,

Oh, and TEShaw, my callsign comes from other games, with a six (6) caracter limit, so I had to let an "r" fall...My english spelling is as correct as possible for a portuguese. Still, find it a bit strange that all your contribution to this thread was as spell-checker...Are you a net bot or something?

[Castedo]

Originally posted by sparow
Hi all,


Oh, and TEShaw, my callsign comes from other games, with a six (6) caracter limit, so I had to let an "r" fall...My english spelling is as correct as possible for a portuguese. Still, find it a bit strange that all your contribution to this thread was as spell-checker...Are you a net bot or something?

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[sparow]

Castedo,

Could not understand your comment. Does it have a point or is it a net bot kind of contribution also?

Cya,