Increase "name in lights" to 3 kills

[Pannono]

I believe that increasing the amount of kills it takes to get your name up in lights in the text from 2 to 3 kills would have several benefits. This would lead to better gameplay, with people staying for longer than 2 minutes before running. Also, this would discourage spraying and HOing, because you can spray and get 2 kills before running out of ammo most of the time, and one can survive a couple of HOs if they're reasonably lucky. This also would push players to become better, which, in turn, would improve the overall quality of the game. Due to the fact that only two kills are required to receive notice, many people play with the mindset that they can do the bare minimum and be rewarded. Too many times over the years have I been cheated out of a fight just so someone run and land their 2 kills.

Edit: 1,000th post  

[Kweassa]

 Only if the ID, operating sector, and dot-dar of people with over 5 kills+safe landing last sortie, is highlighted !
 
 

[FLS]

Pannono I don't believe any of your assertions are accurate. Of course if you can actually read other peoples minds then you already know that. 

[Bronk]

Better idea...

Lets link it to ENY. The higher ENY the more kills needed.

ENY 19, need 19 kills for name in lights. If that isn't incentive to even out numbers nothing will do it.

[OOZ662]

I'd rather they set a minimum waterline for the bomber damage name-in-lights. I could care less if a guy egged a town building in a set of Lancasters.

[Spikes]

More kills needed leads to timidness.

[Ack-Ack]

More kills needed leads to timidness.

Not necessarily.  It will for some that are timid to begin with but those that do enjoy to fight, you won't see them change their style to reflect the changes to the kills landed system message.

ack-ack

[mechanic]

Better idea...

Lets link it to ENY. The higher ENY the more kills needed.

ENY 19, need 19 kills for name in lights. If that isn't incentive to even out numbers nothing will do it.

genius idea, i vote for this too  

[FLS]

It wouldn't be so great for the people that rarely land 2 kills. I think Lusche has the numbers on this.

[SmokinLoon]

I say eliminate the "name in lights", or at minimum eliminate the "You shot down gayro", or "WeeArr shot you down".   

Either way, if there is any way to reduce the number of system messages that cycle across the chat bar I'm all in favor of it.

[guncrasher]

I play till run out of gas or ammo and need to rtb. And my record still 7 ho kills in one flight.  People will fly howver they want hoing, vulching, picking or just plain fighting.  Imho most people that land lots of kills do it by either picking or vulching


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[Lusche]

It wouldn't be so great for the people that rarely land 2 kills. I think Lusche has the numbers on this.

LOL... not really...

But what I do know is that in LW, the average player has ~0.2 kills per sortie. Considering that the average player has also a K/D of about 0.3 only, you can see that for many, if not most players, landing 2 kills is actually quite a feat.

[maddafinga]

I say eliminate the "name in lights", or at minimum eliminate the "You shot down gayro", or "WeeArr shot you down".   

Either way, if there is any way to reduce the number of system messages that cycle across the chat bar I'm all in favor of it.

I like to know who I shot down, and who shot me down too.  A lot of times I like to discuss the fight with the dude I was just in with.  Where did I go wrong, or what did you do there, or that type of thing.  Met some good guys that way, and helped improve my flying to boot.  I know it's abused by people being donkeys on 200 a lot of times, but really, it can be a fantastic tool also.

[FLS]

LOL... not really...

But what I do know is that in LW, the average player has ~0.2 kills per sortie. Considering that the average player has also a K/D of about 0.3 only, you can see that for many, if not most players, landing 2 kills is actually quite a feat.

I knew you'd come through Lusche. 

[curry1]

LOL... not really...

But what I do know is that in LW, the average player has ~0.2 kills per sortie. Considering that the average player has also a K/D of about 0.3 only, you can see that for many, if not most players, landing 2 kills is actually quite a feat.

Shoudn't the average be near 1 or do lots of people crash into the ground?