Little question about a definition:

[Lusche]

belial myself dr7 i think would be a good average for "dedicated" tankers for mysekf its about 80% of the time i spend in ah.

80% well, by that definition we got very, very few "dedicated" tankers


Some numbers:
In tour 135, Average Joe was spending 46% of his time in Fighter, 16% in Attack, 17% in Bomber and 20% in Vehicle mode. (These numbers are quite stable and don't vary much from tour to tour)

Now, based on the 3972 players who did play at least one hour during that tour, about 10% spend at least 50% of their time in vehicles, and about 5% at least 2/3rd of their time. Coincidentally we have almost the same numbers for buff pilots.
On the other hand, about 18% of all players didn't drive vehicles at all (Again, almost the same for buffs).

[The Fugitive]

A DEDICATED GVer I would think is in the 80% area as well. Average Joes close to half looks good to me as well.

Dedicated means "devoted to a purpose", which means they spend "most" of their time devoted to playing in a GV.

Maybe the term your looking for is NOT dedicated.

[Ghosth]

A "dedicated" bomber pilot would spend a majority or 75% and up of his air time in bombers.

Same for GV's or anything else.

That would not necessarily be something to brag about.
For AH, I suspect the more valuable player would be one who can do most things well, including bombing, GV's etc.

The Ltar's come to mind, they did GV's well, but they also did fighters, combined opps field captures, etc.
They may not have been dedicated GV'ers, but they were well rounded and well respected.

Which is better, the "dedicated" player who does one thing, and only one thing. (1 trick pony)

Or the player who can consistently do many different things well?

[helbent]

How about dedicated dweeb?

What % time spent hugging ack, stick stirring, hoing, ramming, running, cord pulling and crying is required to achieve such a distinction?

[R 105]

 Speaking of dedicated tankers I have seen little of Ronda or Dr-7. My hole squad disappeared into World of tanks maybe that is where these guys went. With HTC's GV changes the tanks in AH are far better then WoT except for the very short drive to get into action in WoT. With the cost of fuel now days good thing we ain't paying for it here in AH world. With these long spawn drives we have no one would be a dedicated tanks lol.

[SmokinLoon]

"Specialized" might be a better word.  I used to be an "attack" specialist (via Mossi runs, of course!), if you will.  But with the vast improvements to the gv game my attention has swayed a bit towards tank battles.  The ground game is very different and it is hard not to enjoy the broader dynamics.

[shiv]

60% of one thing makes you a dedicated one thinger.

And 4 hours if you really need a minimum hours value.

[Easyscor]

I think you answered your question above, "about 10% spend at least 50% of their time in vehicles." The same would apply to buffs, or any other ride type I think. Spend less then 50% of your in-flight time in any given ride type, and I don't think you can be called dedicated to it.

The funny thing is that some of us met this definition at one time, and still think of ourselves as dedicated this or that, but haven't spent anywhere near that amount of time in those rides in a great long while. I'm still a dedicated buff pilot by gawd! 

[waystin2]

I would say that by HTC's breakdown of activities-Fighter, Bomber, Attack & Vehicles then the vehicle category would need to make up an overwhelming majority of the overall sorties & time spent in game.  Mind you this is not a measure of skill, just dedication as Fugitive pointed out.

[Belial]

Hours mean little to being a dedicated gv'er....

A dedicated gv'er means you can't find a gv fight so you say..OKKK...i'll fly or bomb.

But you are always looking for that good gv fight like a fighter jock looks for a furball.

[Lusche]

Hours mean little to being a dedicated gv'er....

A dedicated gv'er means you can't find a gv fight so you say..OKKK...i'll fly or bomb.

But you are always looking for that good gv fight like a fighter jock looks for a furball.

Which would in effect result in a higher percentage of time spent in vehicle mode than in others

And that's all I'm looking for - quantitative statements, not any judgment about "quality", the score sheets do not show such a thing 

[1ybuzz]

I would have to say that 50% to 55% of time spent in any one mode would make that person dedicated to that mode. This only leaves 16.666% to 15% left to the other three modes.

[sparow]

And just for the record: Posting this thread did cost me a Tempest and 35 fighter perks 

Don't post and fly Lusche, you should know better! 

Cheers,