Something I find interesting about all this is most say (vets especially), that they don't care about scores.
Yet invariably they have good scores.
Maybe not top 10 or anything, but good enough to be recognized as very effective pilots, if you know how to read the box score. I'm sure if any of these vets found what they were doing wasn't resulting in at least 3 dead bandits for every time they get shot down, they'd alter their method.
Anyway, I reckon HTC was right to set up the system as is, its really the only reward for RTBing sucessfully. Its your right to not want it to come up in the textbuffer if you wish, but like Bel said, all you gotta do is ditch.
I reckon if we didn't have the "carrot" of name in lights, combat would get lamer and less realistic, instead of the other way around. Myself, I like getting a kill this much
and hate getting shot down this much
so it wouldn't change how I fly, but true score potatoes would soon realize that their best deal when you factor k/s and k/t into it would be to fight like a kamikaze in an uber-cannon bird in furballs. Without the reward for dragging your plane back to base with kills, fuel management would go out the window and M.A.D. hoing would shoot up even more.
