Yikes. I agree with Vraciu.
And yet. There's no doubt that AH always had a group of players - quite possibly a big group - for whom score is really important (glances sideways at Violator). No reason to run them off by eliminating score. The goal should be to eliminate the chest-thumping.
- oldman
It's not like I play for #1 every month. I do like to try for high stats and measures in most of my sorties, but I like to fly a lot of different types of planes too. I just think it's a good scoring system compared to most I've seen.
I bet a lot more players pay attention to it than you'd think. I agree with your premise but Ive never seen people argue about whose rank is better ever in the MA. It's an over exaggeration.
My other question was about moving fighter score and ranking to the match arenas since fighter kills in the MA can be meaningless as far as skill goes.
There would still be fighter score but it would be in the match arenas with ELO ranking to keep it honest.
Even if you get a few skilless kills you still have to have skill to achieve top 5 scores. The whole point of having the points metric is to make sure players don't get #1 for just one or 2 sorties. You have to be consistent for a month in your sorties to score high. That is not skilless for the MA arena. With more #s makes score harder to achieve. Planes do matter, but you still have to have some level of skill and understanding and patience to be #1.
