Split scoring for EW/MW/LW 4 months in

[SlapShot]

Originally posted by Phil
Slap, the more I read and the more you shoot me down, the better I respect you !
Maybe someday, I will be able to shoot you down everytime !!!

SALUTE !
Phil / OPP7755

Great post Phil.

pfft ... you do just fine for a guy that has only 14 months into the game and I fear for that day ...

[Overlag]

Originally posted by SlapShot

What I also see, and what is important to me, is that the quality of fights in the Mid-War are better than what you run into in the LW arenas. That is not to say that LW pilots are worse ... when you engage in a 2 v 1 in the MW, 99% of the time, it will remain a 2 v 1 ... you don't always have the fear of a pack of feeding frenzied La-7s and Spit 16s jumping the fight.

That to me is "quality" and I much prefer quality to quantity when it comes to this game and dogfighting.

i must admit i am (as is most of my squad) getting a bit annoyed having "fun fights" turn into hordes of La7s and Spit16s chasing us down. what can be a good 5on5 quicky turns into a mess as the people that died get pissed off and up the best plane that is free...

But the choice of using old planes, as well as the "uber" ones keeps us in LW, most of us would be able to fly in MW fine, but sometimes they move from 47d25s to the 47N's or the 190a5 to the d9 etc...

Overlag

4th edit, yeah MW numbers are up i believe from the past, thats one reason i feel to have a 1939-1943 and 1943-1945 arena setup, not EW/MW/LW

from earlier...

[SlapShot]

Originally posted by Overlag
But the choice of using old planes, as well as the "uber" ones keeps us in LW, most of us would be able to fly in MW fine, but sometimes they move from 47d25s to the 47N's or the 190a5 to the d9 etc...

I understand that ... but I also know that the MW has it's set of "uber" planes but they are only "uber" in relation to the rest of the plane set.

We have the P-51B ... not too far from the P-51D.

We have the P-38J ... not to far from the P-38L.

We have the F6F ... not too far removed from it's other Navy brothers.

We have the P-47-D11 ... ummm ... well ... it's a fun plane to fly.

We have the La-5 ... not too far from the La-7

We have the Spit 9 ... not too far removed from it's other British brothers.

As far as comparing bombers and German iron ... I can't speak for those as I don't fly them.

It's all perspective Overlag ... <>

But we digress ... so, again to answer the original question ... I LOVE IT

[BaldEagl]

Don't get me wrong about score/rank.  Sure I try to keep mine up to a degree (which is easy if you just fulfill the minimal obligations so you're not ranked last in any catagory) but not at the expense of having fun or trying to help my country.

Last night I was the lone friendly in a me on ten or so trying to keep the Knights off one of our VB's.  If I was a total score-potato I would never have flown there.  I knew the odds going in.

As to running score-potatos sometimes you're just not in a plane match-up or an odds situation that is comfortable for you.  Sometimes you're low on fuel or ammo.  There's a lot of reasons to exit a fight beyond holding onto your score.

I do keep track of all my stats over a six month period though.  I dont want to have to add my kills and deaths from 3 sets of stats to know how I'm doing, so, I stick to LW now.  At least the whole plane-set's available to me but alas, I do miss my visits to those other arenas.

One of the best fights I've had over the past year was against SlapShot in MW.  Sadly I augered after about 5 minutes of intense fighting.  I miss running into Slap, NB (wish I'd win once) and some of the others.  I miss GV busting in my Stuka of Death in EW.  Oh well.

[toonces3]

I like the split.

The only score I really track is my K/D.  I realize most folks don't care about score, but I like to track this stat for some reason.

And, really, the only K/D that I concern myself with is my LW score.  

Before the split I might have hesitated to fly in the other arenas because I'm not as comfortable in alot of those planes and, frankly, I seemed to run into alot more better players in there.  

Since the split, I've been using the MW arena as more of a playground.  I go in there to fly planes I never fly in the LW arenas- like the P-38.  But what I really like are the smaller numbers.  Most of the time you can get into a rythm flying against a handful of other folks and have really fun fights.  Especially if it's some higher caliber players, there's alot less HO'ing, and a lot more on 200.  I've had some epic duels with Oldman22 in there- sort of a running feud.

I for one hope they keep the split as is for now.  Mid-war is a great change of pace, at least until you get 5 knuckleheads on all HO'ing in their woobiecanes (looking at you ...th).

[WWM]

I hope it doesn't change.  I actually wish HT would cap Mid to 70-80 players.  You can always tell when there are more then that on by quality of fights and you can always tell when late war regulars come to mid war.

[Anaxogoras]

You can always tell when there are more then that on by quality of fights and you can always tell when late war regulars come to mid war.

You're an even bigger elitist that I am.  I didn't think that was possible.

[DoNKeY]

I only go into the MW when I'm bored and want to fly a J against it's equivalents, or if I want to feed my inner torpedo monster.

donkey

[Overlag]

Originally posted by SlapShot

It's all perspective Overlag ... <>

But we digress ... so, again to answer the original question ... I LOVE IT

and the good point of all this is theres 1 less pro in LW to kill me

[WWM]

Originally posted by Anaxogoras
You're an even bigger elitist that I am.  I didn't think that was possible.

Didn't mean to come across that way. I'm not any better then anyone else because I play or don't play a certain way.  There is a different attitude and play style in most mid regulars that I like.   Fly there exclusively for an entire tour then go back to Late for a day and I think you will see for yourself.

[Ack-Ack]

Originally posted by Overlag
yup, they generally always empty... maybe there should be 128x128 maps for them they more likely to find fights?

one of the reasons i dont go there is i  can find more fights in offline mode....

You are flying at the wrong times then.  MW population on most afternoons and evenings (US time) is in the 30-60 range.  Last night we had over 60 players in the MW.  

EW arena is another matter and that is primarily due to these "uber" squads (i.e. the ones full of the crappiest players to be found in AH) are milkrunning the bases and flooding one side with numbers.   Which is resulting in a low turn out in that arena.

ack-akc

[Lusche]

Originally posted by Ack-Ack
You are flying at the wrong times then.  MW population on most afternoons and evenings (US time) is in the 30-60 range.  Last night we had over 60 players in the MW.

There were similar numbers at those "wrong times" Overlag and me have the unfortunate pleasure to live in too.

[FireDrgn]

What if scores were withheld till the end of the tour...

[Lusche]

Originally posted by FireDrgn
What if scores were withheld till the end of the tour...

Wouldn't help the specific issue we are talking about.

[Shuffler]

I fly to have fun.... I knife fight on the deck.... but the score system is flawed ..... so I went in the other night and augered 5 times to fix it. Now Dan won't be pointing the finger at me when the job of latrine duty comes up. I had not flown in MW since the split... numbers are usually low..... but Dan found fights in there a week or so ago and several of our little squad went in.... the fights generally are much better although you still see some LW mentality.