Increase "name in lights" to 3 kills

[Knite]

Im up for that but instead have it say "Ace"

While I wouldn't hate the concept, I think something like that should be in ADDITION to... Or perhaps even better, if the game tracked since your last death... as in :
Ace XXXXXX was shot down after collecting 8 kills since his last departure.



Honestly, the only people changing the kill streak message from 2 to 3 affects, is the pilots crappy enough to struggle getting 2 kills in the first place in a sortie. We want to discourage them from flying more?

[BaldEagl]

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.

Huh?  System messages are the most intelligent things cycling through the text buffer.

[Skuzzy]

".squelch 6" turns off system messages.

[1Boner]

".squelch 6" turns off system messages.

There ya go, "perceived" problem solved!!


Thanks for clearing up yet another of someones pet peeves Skuzzy!!

[Spikes]

WeeArr

PENN STATE!

Oh...wrong idea.

[Dadsguns]

For me there should be a 2 perk thresshold before any other numerics are considered. ie Fighter/attacker = 2 kills + 2 perks prior to attaboy announcement.  Its clear that Attaboys are motivational so why not use them to encourage greater variety of ac in combat by rewarding high ENY drivers appropriately.

Interesting. 
Something else to consider:  What if it didn't start scoring anything until after the 2nd kill, you can still get your name in lights for the 2 kills, but you would not get any score. 
That surely would encourage some to fight, rearm and fight to at least get 3. 

Besides, then we could get a laugh out of the ones landing 2 kills that didn't get any score.... 

[jdbecks]

I land even if I do not get any kills, for instance, if I go on a buff hunting sortie, and do not come accross any buffs and run low on fuel, I go home and land. I land with no kills, with one kill, two kills and so on...If I get damaged, I always try and get back to a base and land. If its because the system messages spam your text bar, squelch them. But there is nothing wrong with the current system imho. The only thing I do not do, is re arm, I just get a new ship.

[uptown]

Could I get my name in lights for an assist....I use .50s ya know 

[PJ_Godzilla]

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.

Interesting. I'm struggling to crack .5, though it's been higher for brief periods(even over 1 for short spans). That means a couple of things.

1. I'm a relative newbie (about a year) and a punk-ayuss (it hurts to admit it). This I acknowledge readily. I'm a humble and grateful student of the game.
2. if the average k/d is .3, that means a small contingent of players are generating outsized kill numbers, confirming my suspicion that there are Aces and Targets in this game. I think of my own experience with, for example, Wolfala. I think I'm 0-5 or 0-6 against him. There are a half-dozen others I can name that probably account for a grossly disproportionate number of my deaths. You know who you are.
3. I'm not so out of the norm to be happy with landing 2-3 kills.

[Lusche]

2. if the average k/d is .3, that means a small contingent of players are generating outsized kill numbers, confirming my suspicion that there are Aces and Targets in this game.

Yes there are.
BUT... many, if not most of those players at the bottom are 2 weekers, doing only a few sorties before their trial runs out.

I may do a detailed analysis next month taking into account number of sorties and other factors, but I'm not sure when I will find the opportunity to do the necessary improvements on my stats program

[minke]

I like Lusche more now, I've never considered myself in the top 10%

 

[Greziz]

Lusche your quite a stat hoe and I love you for it. I don't know why but almost pointless statistics make me happy ^.^

[mechanic]

Huh?  System messages are the most intelligent things cycling through the text buffer.

  but it's so true

[PJ_Godzilla]

  but it's so true

Not to highjack but, how in hell did you acquire parolee status? I can't get arrested in this town.

[mechanic]

Things used to get pretty spicy in general discussion, a few times I managed to get banned for a week for my stupid behaviour and breach of forum rules. I learnt my lesson slowly