I have been playing this game 6 months. Prior to playing AH, I played Warbirds for 2 months. I had zero prior experience to flight sims. I am currently ranked 11th in the game. This is not a brag, but is testament to the fact that score...does not matter. All it took on my part (for attack/bomber/gv) was to go out and look up how to manipulate my stats so that my rank would get pushed low. This was mostly an experiment on my part and I am telling you this because of two reasons.
First. For all the weirdos out there that always use the "Your score is a joke, and you suck..." reasoning on Channel 200 you need to readjust your argument. If some 6 month noob can manipulate the score to be ranked 11th it shows that rank/score does not matter.
Second. The scoring system is broke. I have no suggestions at this point other than...get rid of ranks-keep the stats. Stats are interesting to look at and shows you which areas to improve in. Ranks/Score seems to lead to what is commonly referred to as score whoring. I found myself guilty of this yesterday (I stole a kill from someone...something I usually do not do). We are all human, and as humans we like to compete. When it comes right down to it score serves no purpose other than for idiots to brag about it on Ch200...and less than desirable flying behavior by some pilots.
That is all...flame away.
Papa
pretty decent post.
i like the idea of getting rid of the scores, and keeping stats, for the reasons you state.
generally, you can tell another pile-its skill within 2 turns. i've been shot down(with ease) by guys with piss poor scores, and had guys that rank in the top 10 struggle to shoot me down. i consider myself on the low side of average, as far as cartoon dogfighting is concerned.
you missed one result of the scoring system too......that is timid flying.
in lw pink the other night, i knew the fight was high, so i climbed to about 19k. found a p-47 there, who immediately inned on me. i tried to get him to fight uphill, as that's the way my plane likes to fight......but it went downhill. managed to keep speed down, and finally got him, at around 10k alt.
as i leveled out to regain speed, i saw a corsair my 6 high, about 5k out. at first it looked like he was coming for me, and i played stupid like i didn't see him. he refused to come down. talk about timid.....he never even did a bnz pass.
