For the record. I agree with Dobs original post, I think the fighter or attack should be shown when you start your sortie in the text buffer as a system message. That way people know which method they choose. I often forget to change it and have no idea until after my sortie that I scored it wrongly. I think it would help.
Secondly when it comes to rank.
The majority of the people who bash rank could never even get in the top 10 if they tried. They call the high scorers every name imaginable and disregard their flying skills in some fashion. There aren't very many people who would be Top 5 or even top 10 every month even if they flew easy perk planes. People like Semp claiming they use to fly for rank "easily" but yet you fly a P51D every sortie. That should be an automatic top 10 rank even dying half the time. People think flying timidly or running, or getting a high K/D is the best way to get a high rank. They are wrong. I'd love to challenge people to a fighter rank contest, but they are usually too weak to accept. I think it's actually harder than people give credit for. I think it does take skill to be a top 5 ranked. Given the integrity of the players and how they achieved it. I dare you to call me a weak score tard after Ive gone 97-9 in a 109g2 this tour. A slow midwar plane. No one sees that, no one sees the challenge I've given to myself. No one sees the actual skill it takes to achieve that. They just think I'm some score dweeb who gets top 5 every month. I think if people used the rank more, it would help them become a better pilot. You can gauge your performance and work on part that you need help with. You can work on getting kills faster, you can work on getting more kills a sortie, and see those #s for comparison. There really is a skill to get a good fighter rank in harder planes. There is a reason why I always score high, it's because I know how to play in the MA and I know how to get kills in a short period of time. I dont fly like your percieved run timid gang dweebs, and that's half the reason I have a better rank than all of them. I'm all for bashing the runners and gangers, but they are not an indication of good pilot scoreres. It's almost insulting to me when I hear people talking about rank because they simply don't understand it, or at least don't understand why I always have a top 5 rank, it happens on accident, and it's simply because of the way I fly, not because I have to fly some dweeb ride or fly a special way. Maybe you can point out the true pilots who represent rank rather than bash everyone who scores high, and actually learn how they do it, so you can become better in the MA.
