Bomber Rankings

[earl1937]

Hi Tech, would you please adjust the bomber rankings to reflect what a Aces High member actually does in a bomber, i.e., damage and destroy objects on the ground. One of my squad mates, who is a excellent bomber pilot and who had over 13 million damage points in the last tour, yet he only finished 48th! He also had base captures and resupply runs, which in my view has no bearing on how good a bomber pilot in this game is!
You have rankings in a lot of different categories and I don't think it would be a big thing to add a winner for most damage points in a bomber. I realize that there would be members who do nothing but run bombers all the time, but so what? If a person in this game works hard and pratices his bombing and flies 150 sorties in one tour, there is no good reason he or she should not be recognized for their hard work.

What do you guys in here think?

[Lusche]

I'm not exactly sure what you mean...

Damage to objects is THE major component of bomber score, by a) counting damage points directly as a scoring category and b) by being the main part of damage/death and damage/sortie categories.
The only category not related to hitting ground structures is "base captures", which makes up 1/5th of your bomber score...

[Karnak]

What does he bomb?

He may be suffering if he is bombing useful things and not town centers.

[earl1937]

I'm not exactly sure what you mean...

Damage to objects is THE major component of bomber score, by a) counting damage points directly as a scoring category and b) by being the main part of damage/death and damage/sortie categories.
The only category not related to hitting ground structures is "base captures", which makes up 1/5th of your bomber score...

The squaddie had more than 13 million damage points in this last tour, are you saying that since he finished 48th, 47 more members had more than 13 million damage points? And why in the world would you judge a bomber pilot on how many base captures he had? That has nothing to do with his skill as a bomber pilot!

[Lusche]

By the way... being 48th in bombers meant a better rank then 98.5% of all bomber pilots in tour 148. Not exactly being a "loser". So it's a bit exaggerated to say his work wasn't recognized.

[earl1937]

What does he bomb?

He may be suffering if he is bombing useful things and not town centers.

We are a base capturing squad and we run missions every day of the week, 365 days a year, and we attack every avaiable target which Aces High offers! He is just not a town center bomber pilot. If I have a tough target to hit and we have a bad angle, I can count on him to "kill" the hangar or what ever.

[earl1937]

By the way... being 48th in bombers meant a better rank then 98.5% of all bomber pilots in tour 148. Not exactly being a "loser". So it's a bit exaggerated to say his work wasn't recognized.

I have only been in this game about a year and a half, so still learning a lot of ins and outs to scoring and etc. Not really complaining, just wondering I guess!

[Butcher]

One B-29 with 40x 500lb bombs can take a rank from 0 to under 50 in one sortie.

Rank means nothing.

[Karnak]

We are a base capturing squad and we run missions every day of the week, 365 days a year, and we attack every avaiable target which Aces High offers! He is just not a town center bomber pilot. If I have a tough target to hit and we have a bad angle, I can count on him to "kill" the hangar or what ever.

Unless I am gravely mistaken, in which case Lusche will correct me, bombing town centers drives up one's hit percentage, greatly assisting in getting an overall high score.  This is pretty sad as it is a generally useless thing to do in terms of helping the war effort.

[Skuzzy]

I am confused, because the person that finished 48th in bombing, last tour, had 3.8 million damage points in the bomber category, in 83 sorties.  The number one person had 6.5 million damage points.

I cannot find anyone who had 13 million damage points in the bomber category.

[Lusche]

On another note, if bomber rank was about damage points only, 13 million points would still not have been enough for #1 in tour 148. The best player int hat category had almost 42 million points, 13 million would barely break the top 20.

[Lusche]

II cannot find anyone who had 13 million damage points in the bomber category.

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[Skuzzy]

Geez, see there. Just because I wrote the score and rank scripts does not mean I know how to use them. 

[Lusche]

 


Now why do you think I use my own?     

[The Fugitive]

Earl do you understand how the ranking works?