I noticed you said this to me on a closed topic, I think you mistake my high score for someone that is playing for score. I just log on and fight at the the front my team needs me on, I don't do anything special for score besides doing well every sortie. This isn't a whine about bomber score, it would be detrimental to my rank since I'm not normally a bomber, I would have to work much harder to obtain a good rank if that's what I cared about. To consider me limited just because I'm always ranked well is odd. You can see for yourself that I'm also normally in P40s and other odd vehicles and planes that don't fit the meta.
tl;dnr - As a matter of practice, you focus on defending vs GVs and buffs for that score and rank and you think makes you better than you really are across the board into a2a realms.
Plane choice in certain environments is irrelevant. You could be behind the horde (which you have been) or you could be fighting the horde (who's skillset in those times is different than later in the day.)
You could be targeting buffs and gv's (and it seems you are - tour 303 (4/25): 100 of your 143 kills flying a typh (most in a fighter frame) were on gvs and buffs) which is no big but doesn't speak to other skillsets, does it? Well, you do seem adequate at vulching.
It also seems you're currently playing later in the day (more people, more skills) than you used to, and your rides have gotten progressively hotter as a response, but your target selection hasn't.
This isn't about your exploiting scoring for ranks, tho' - it's about your lack of a2a skillset when it comes up against fighters who know what they're doing. Like Cat7 and other score potatoes, your SA allows you to escape and you play from that aspect - again no big, but nothing special compared to other score potatoes.
Tour 304, 5/25 to date:
17 of your 21 kills in a p40F have been against GV or buffs.
All 4 of your kills in a p40N are against GVs.
All 12 of your p47d11 kills were vs buffs.
14 of your 21 spit16 kills were GVs or buffs, the rest were carrier fighters - so it seems you might have been defending a base (friendly ack and bug out options.)
45 of your 77 kills in a Tempest were GV's or buffs.
But back on topic: it's easy to manipulate bomber scoring for rank by doing the few things needed (I used to do it all the time, just to get my rank up into cv-control territory.) It's as easy for attack ranking as well if you know how to do it. It can also be done playing organically with no milking involved. I rarely hit strats and tend to focus on WF a front-line town, not milking a series of town centers like some players - each side has their own who do this. Most of my kills are plane vs plane in attack mode because I'm not that motivated to go after GVs - if I do, it's usually in an F6F defending.
You can defend your ranking as "skill", but not to the broad extent you're trying to claim.
<edit: also on topic - Who might these bombers who are going unrecognized because... scoring... even be? And why aren't they seemingly concerned about this? Are they aware of the simple few things needed for rank if that was their objective?>
