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Offline DmonSlyr

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Huckster gaming the ranks
« on: August 09, 2025, 08:54:23 PM »
You've been exposed  :old: I noticed when your 110C had the top K/D of the entire arena last tour.  ;)

Go back and look at his last 3 tours. Seemingly killing the 1 guy over and over again. #1 fighter so far this tour with an 8 kill sortie on 1 guy getting over 36 hit % and 4k points. I cant even get 1k points for 2 landed sorties with 5-6 kills a peice...

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Re: Huckster gaming the ranks
« Reply #1 on: August 09, 2025, 09:10:33 PM »
What about that Machell guy? Looks like he killed 5 B17s with an M3!

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Re: Huckster gaming the ranks
« Reply #2 on: August 09, 2025, 09:16:43 PM »
What about that Machell guy? Looks like he killed 5 B17s with an M3!

Thats Finetime, he bails a lot

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Re: Huckster gaming the ranks
« Reply #3 on: August 09, 2025, 09:54:34 PM »
I noticed that too.  Pretty lucky to be finding the same shade - err, "noob" all tour.  And while flying a 40ENY plane to boot. 
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Re: Huckster gaming the ranks
« Reply #4 on: August 09, 2025, 10:07:40 PM »
Thats Finetime, he bails a lot

Ah, that makes sense. I didn't look to see who it was, just the plane type.

Speaking of shady types. It appears that hazmat has been gone for a couple tour now. Wonder what the callsign for hi new shade is.

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Re: Huckster gaming the ranks
« Reply #5 on: Yesterday at 03:34:12 AM »
Thats Finetime, he bails a lot

You sure about that? I dont think Finetime flies Bostons... and this wasnt bailed out kills given his sheer amount of points and hit %. These are runway vulch kills. Further, it would be one thing to say he got a lucky sortie one tour. Doing it 3 months in a row on random names is sus and should be looked into.
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Re: Huckster gaming the ranks
« Reply #6 on: Yesterday at 06:21:05 AM »
Where do you see the 110c stats?

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Re: Huckster gaming the ranks
« Reply #9 on: Yesterday at 07:49:02 AM »
You've been exposed  :old: I noticed when your 110C had the top K/D of the entire arena last tour.  ;)

Go back and look at his last 3 tours. Seemingly killing the 1 guy over and over again. #1 fighter so far this tour with an 8 kill sortie on 1 guy getting over 36 hit % and 4k points. I cant even get 1k points for 2 landed sorties with 5-6 kills a peice...

  Tsk tsk...

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Re: Huckster gaming the ranks
« Reply #10 on: Yesterday at 09:47:13 AM »
Imagine boosting your rank in AH in 2025.  Wow.
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Re: Huckster gaming the ranks
« Reply #11 on: Yesterday at 11:06:16 AM »
I like how he changed the name of his "target" thinking that would hide his scheme.   :rofl
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Re: Huckster gaming the ranks
« Reply #12 on: Yesterday at 11:38:57 AM »
SHawk showed me how to game the score years ago and after that, scores and ranks mean nothing to me. The funny thing is that you don't have to cheat to get good scores or rank. I suspect the player in question is a silly kid trying to look good.
This kind of activity was way worse when we had massive numbers in the game. I didn't condone this stuff then, and I don't now, but what ya going to do? Hopefully, this person will realize how dumb his efforts are. There's nothing worse than worrying about a scoring system that can be gamed so easily. If anything, the ranking system only provides a window into a player's knowledge of the game and not one's skill level.  :salute
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Re: Huckster gaming the ranks
« Reply #13 on: Yesterday at 11:54:06 AM »
Score makes for a boring game for me..

I more than not lately look for ways to die to save the rtb trip..

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Re: Huckster gaming the ranks
« Reply #14 on: Yesterday at 01:03:29 PM »
ranking system only provides a window into a player's knowledge of the game and not one's skill level.  :salute

I agree that score has no reflection on actual skill.

I would take a perk mossie and rearm like 5 times and bomb like 5 cities and I would have a decent bomber rank for the rest of the campaign. Likewise I would take a rocket tank into a town and destroy it and if I could get a gv kill or two I'd have a good enough gv rank for the rest of the game. Keep in mind I wasn't trying to get to number one. I was just trying to show on the top 50 and I could do this easily with one mission in a bomber and one or two in a gv. Not hard to game it at all. To me the toughest to game was the fighter score. Easiest way I found to do this was to fly an F4U1C off the carrier and vulch a base. You could rack up some kills right quick and then you would be done with the fighter score too.