Originally posted by bloom25:
The map made the difference. The beta map tends to be crawling with ostwinds. These lower the k/d of the F4u-1c and the Typhoon more than the N1k I would imagine.
I was talking about the ratio in total kills of the CHog vs. the Niki, NOT the K/D ratios of each plane.
More ostwinds should have caused the total Chog kills relative to the Niki to go UP, not down, as more people flew them to kill Ostwinds.
I think more people simply figured out the CHog was a better uberplane than the Niki. I suspect even without the addition of CVs we would have seen the gap widen this tour (though obviously, not to quite the obscene levels we see this tour); unfortunately the addition of CVs pollutes the data so you can't tell.
Basically, overall, I think the sole problem with the wonderful posted tables, because Tour 11 is left out, is that you'll get people saying..
"See, back before the CVs, there weren't that many more CHog kills than Niki or Spit IX kills...all of the massive increase in CHog kills was from adding CVs" when, when you look at the missing Tour 11 data, it's obvious that Chog usage was rocketing upwards rapidly relative to the Niki and Spit BEFORE the CV was added.
[This message has been edited by Torgo (edited 01-28-2001).]
[This message has been edited by Torgo (edited 01-28-2001).]