Tour 304 Winners!

[Lusche]

How did you get your list of top 7?  Just go to the obvious bomber pilots and manually check them?

Not playing in the MA, how would I know who the 'obvious bomber pilots' are ion a given tour? 

I just grab the scores of every pilot (with at least 1 kill or deathj) and sort them by the desired category



I mean how else could I have come up with all these MA stats "average kill/hour", "total base captures" and so on over the past 14 years? 

[Lusche]

Excursus:

I would like to take this opportunity to point out that ‘Bomber Damage Points’ are not directly related to the actual damage done. Two pilots can actually have destroyed absolutely the same number of town buildings, but received totally different damage score points for it.
This is because, for some reason unknown to me, larger bombs score more points per object, and significantly so. I only found this out because I logged all my bomber missions in detail for many years and noticed this as an inconsistency. Tests in a custom arena confirmed this.

Incidentally, this applies not only to bombers, but also to vehicles. Anyone can easily test this themselves: Take a T34/85 or M4/75 and destroy a shore battery, for example. Then do the same with an M16 - you will realise that you have received considerably fewer damage points than with the T-34

[haggerty]

Are you able to share how I can compile that kind of data?  It would probably save a ton of time for compiling these types of monthly score posts and allow new categories.  Looks like im unable to PM you.

[JimmyD3]

Are you able to share how I can compile that kind of data?  It would probably save a ton of time for compiling these types of monthly score posts and allow new categories.  Looks like im unable to PM you.

Looks like a spread sheet. Excel should be able to do it.

[The Fugitive]

Looks like a spread sheet. Excel should be able to do it.

It is, but how do you get all the data to fill in that spread sheet? I dont think he sits there and query's the server for each player. I'd like to know how he gets the data too.

[oTRALFZo]

It is, but how do you get all the data to fill in that spread sheet? I dont think he sits there and query's the server for each player. I'd like to know how he gets the data too.

Did you guys not know Snailman is a Cyborg collecting data on us? Those pie charts don't fool me 

[Lusche]

For the pilot scores, it's just two small python scripts to scrape the data: One to get a list of pilot names from the plane stats, the second grabs the scores. I actually learned a bit of python for that back in 2010/2011. It's not that hard (else my foggy ADHD mind could not have done it), and today I guess it's pretty simple by using AI.

Looks like im unable to PM you.

Nobody is 

[haggerty]

Nobody is 

Good, thought maybe I slighted you in a way I didnt even know about.

[Animl-AW]

I can write an app to do this

NOPE

[RUSH1]

Brando, #1 T-34???  I leave this place for a few years and you people let this happen?

[JimmyD3]

Brando, #1 T-34???  I leave this place for a few years and you people let this happen?

He is deadly in that thing. IMO, he is the best tanker in the game right now. But everyone has gotten substantially better over the last 3 years except me. 

The biggest issue in tanking right now is the need for multiple shots to kill another tank.