Hall of Fame - 2,000+ Kills in a Tour

[Lusche]

It was much easier to do in their day. Having 120 people in a furball sure makes landing double digits easier.

This.
Also, the timezone you are living & playing in can have a big impact. US prime time vs NZ/Aussie prime time, for example.

Ask the snail

The tool the snail uses is far too cumbersome for a quick query like this. Spatulas old tool was much better in this regard. 

[Lusche]

Because for the most part it's taking far more time than most have been willing/able to spend on a video game.

To give some numbers: at a sustained kill rate of 10 kills/h (which would be phenomenal), one would need to play 200+ hours in a single tour to get 2.000 kills. Actually, he would have to play even more, because no one is in a sortie all of the time. Aces high records only the sortie time (fighter, bomber, attack, vehicle)

In tour 234, the average total sortie time for the sampled 1070 pilots was 22 hours. The median total sortie time was 11 hours.
Only  31 pilots did put >= 100 hours into the game, one had >200 hours. (And we don't know if any of them shared his account with someone else, like a family account at home for example)

When I did my 2000 kill tour (I had a few more coming close), I accumulated 238 hours 'inflight'. That's a textbook case of 'no life'.   

[icepac]

Those K/D ratios are really bad on most of the 2k guys.

[flippz]

Rusyn did it last year when he broke the scoring page.

Another skyrr cheerleader page. You still paying for his accts?  Asking for a friend.

[Vraciu]

Another skyrr cheerleader page. You still paying for his accts?  Asking for a friend.

I've never paid for anyone's account but my own.  *shakes leg*   "Get off!" 

[puller]

Another skyrr cheerleader page. You still paying for his accts?  Asking for a friend.

This

 

[Vraciu]

This

 

He don't love ya', bro, it's okay.   

[The Fugitive]

Woof, that's going to take some thinking...

Under Saxman I flew regularly from Tour 70, through Tour 129. After that I only got on sporadically before finally suspending my account. I came back for a bit under Saxman2, but only briefly (I can't remember exactly when that was).

Tours 70-129, first picture is your top kills tour (you add them for the totals for that tour), second shows the top planes you got kills in total for tours 70-129

[Saxman]

Huh, surprised to see I have that many more kills in the 1D. Although I suppose that also comes from the 1D having been in the game significantly longer, and it includes GVs.

[Lusche]

FYI, the -1A was introduced slightly over one year after you joined AH, in tour 82 

[Vulcan]

I think I maxxed out at 800 one tour, back before HT fixed the typhoons roll rate 

I remember landing one kill streak of 35 in the uber-tiffie.

[diaster]

Rusyn did it last year when he broke the scoring page.

Pretty rad skills for a new guy! Watched him do a fur ball in a Duece, 1 v 6 killed em all, turning that duece like a spit

[lunaticfringe]

I have heard that by multible players that skyrr and rusyn are one in the same and got their scores by not playing fairly. I could be wrong,but it is what I heard.

[Shuffler]

I have heard that by multible players that skyrr and rusyn are one in the same and got their scores by not playing fairly. I could be wrong,but it is what I heard.

Since scores really do not matter and do not represent actual skill, who really cares.   

[lutrel]

And here I thought 170 kills in my little M-8 for the tour was something.