Here is What Your Score Means:

[dedalos]

On the one hand, I agree there a lot of gaming is going on.

OTOH, do you honestly think just anyone could put up stats like say, Shawk or Steve do on their fighter score? (Without vulching a 2nd account.)?

Yep, but they may die from boredom

[ODBAL]

I'm not any good, but even when I catch a score monkey alone they are dead meat.

Yea, Del sucks.  By the way, have we met? I'm the freaking Queen of England...

[Yenny]

<-- I pick and I r good at it. tyvm

[SmokinLoon]

What's your in game name?

My final ranking was 86.     I've said who I am in game in other threads...  it is no secret.   

[FLOTSOM]

my only concern with score is my K/D ratio. it is how i try to measure my improvements. when i make adjustments to my setup, buttons and stick configuration or style of flying ect, it gives me an honest point of measure.

now keeping in mind that it always sux to begin with, any change even a subtle one shows up quickly.

but of course because i do dumb things like upping from a capped base to defend it, jumping into groups of red guys that i stand no chance in, act as dragging bait for the friendly picks in the area ect, my K/D ratio stays horrible. but as long as i keep track of it before and after changes and testing then it seems to give me a good heads up on how something is working or failing for me.

the rest of it i don't pay any attention to.

Don't let Jetsom kid you though, he stays up late into the night crying because he cant be NUMBER ONE each month. its a sad thing to watch him sitting in the corner blubbering through the tears about how "unfair life is" and that "some day he will be NUMBER ONE in cartoon airplane land and that all of us mortals shall fear him and dread his appearance upon the battle field!"

i gotta give my respects to Stacy (his wife), when he has one of his bad moments she pats his back, changes his diaper, gives him a bubby and puts him to bed with love and compassion every time. personally i would have put cyanide in his bubby the first time! patience is a virtue isn't it brother.

(remember, i will so tell on you if you hit me!)

FLOTSOM

[Steve]

Yep, but they may die from boredom

I really enjoy the game. I don't find the way I fly boring at all. Tell me, where do you get this wonderful insight on how I play this game?  How is it you know so much about how I play?

[Dadsguns]

I rarely even see some of the top ranked guys in the arena, much less even see them landing these kills.  They must be on at odd times of the day, or off in the corner porking each other to get the rank.  

No matter, I have as much fun getting killed as doing the killing, and when I get the fortuante experiece of catching one of the "elite ones"   alone, I usually lay the smack down on them, they really cant fight to well alone.

This is what my "score" or "rank" mean to me -----> Nada, Nothing, Nowt, Niente - in other words, not a thing.

What makes this game for me is the people I get to interact with (and attempt to shoot down as often as possible)  (C'mon, I did say attempt  )


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Wurzel

Wurzel, your are one of the best guys in this game no matter what your score is,  
Always a pleasure to fly against you even if I lose.

[Yenny]

I really enjoy the game. I don't find the way I fly boring at all. Tell me, where do you get this wonderful insight on how I play this game?  How is it you know so much about how I play?

Damn right Steve, I found trying to stay alive in a furball area in a 190 is so much more statisfying. To me it's easy to go suicidal and die, but it's MUCH MUCH harder to kill crap at a good K/T ratio and bring your bird home alive. Each person have their own different way of enjoying the game. Other people that are trying to impose the way they fly and their style on other they are wrong! I enjoy furballing in a 109K4 as much as the next guys, but at the sametime I love flying in 190=)

[Bucky73]

I really enjoy the game. I don't find the way I fly boring at all. Tell me, where do you get this wonderful insight on how I play this game?  How is it you know so much about how I play?

Doesn't really matter Steve. As long as you are having fun. Who cares what anyone else thinks really...

[BaldEagl]

... when I get the fortuante experiece of catching one of the "elite ones"   alone, I usually lay the smack down on them, they really cant fight to well alone.

Care to test that theory?  While I'm not one of the better fighter rankers I do ok.  I am usually around the top 15 overall though.

[Dadsguns]

Care to test that theory?  While I'm not one of the better fighter rankers I do ok.  I am usually around the top 15 overall though.

You can usually find me in the MA. Find your way there, if your not worried about your K/D. 

[Yenny]

There are SO SO many different style of fighting and they're all require its own special technique. You got the bnzmer, the average mid alt tnbner, and the otd stall fighter. They all require different way of flying, throttle work, flaps work, and even gunning. To put them all in the same category and compare them it's hard. You got people who are really good at BnZming but can't do anything in TnB. You got folks that can TnB but once you put them in a 190 they can't do anything. Then you got folks that can BnZ and TnB with any planes (almost anyplane).

What I see a lot is people flying spitfires, hurricanes whining that a P-51 or a 190 will not turnfight with them. I got cheese to help you to get over that. People fly their plane to its best advantage. A 190 fight be able to out manuever a 1 weeker in a spit. However, up against any pilot that know what they r doing or have any kind of understanding of ACM in a spit, he/she would shot down a 190 in a heart beat if they work the 190 down and settle in. Fair? probably not, but that's why 190 are better off bnzming.

[Ack-Ack]

What I always wonder though is how a guy gets 10 to 15 kills per hour for the whole tour.

It's easy.


ack-ack

[dedalos]

I really enjoy the game. I don't find the way I fly boring at all. Tell me, where do you get this wonderful insight on how I play this game?  How is it you know so much about how I play?

Thats good.  Obviously you enjoy it or you would not be playing.  I find it boring though.  Am I allowed to do that?  As far as the insight, 5 years of encounters give me a little bit to form an opinion. 

[Yenny]

It's easy.


ack-ack

Yea it is. However, there are two types. One that would ONLY fly a certain sorty in a certain score setting. For example fighter, they'd only fly that when they have an air field w/ low cons to pick or to vulch to maintain high kill per time. Then for every other sorties they fly as attack. That way they keep a high Kill/Time ratio in fighter.

The other type is people that just fly equal number of sorties in fighter and attack and still have similiar kill/time ratio. Usually though attack is always lowers in kill/time ratio because they have more priority such as taking out town etc then air to air kills. Which would lower the kill/time ratio.

I know a lot of people just fly 4-5 vulch missions. Lock in their 18% hit percent, 15 kill/time. 20kill/death ratio and then stop flying it the ENTIRE campaign. Which to me I think it's gaming the game. I look at that stat vs someone who have 100 sorties in fighter and maintain 10+kill/time. That is more accurate of their performance.