Eye, overall ranking is based on your individual ranking in 10 different categories, 5 in fighters and 5 in bombers. Very few of which (2) is determined by your total time in game, which are the points categories.
These are Fighters: Kill/Death, Kill/Sortie, Kill/Time, Hit %, & Fighter Points. Bombers: Damage/Death, Damage/Sortie, Field Captures, Hit %, & Bomber Points.
Your individual ranking is pretty easy to figure out in most cases. For instance, ranking in hit percentage, is literally best to worst.
So you can be the best damn fighter pilot in the game, Ranked #1 in every fighter category, and if you totally ignore bombers, the best you can finish is right in the middle.
Thats how you can do better in fighters this tour, but be ranked lower. You might be doing better in fighters, but overall there are more players than in previous tours and when you ignore the buffs, that means your bombers scores are even lower.
This system overall, will show who are the well rounded pilots, not necessarily who is the best fighter pilot or who is the best bomber pilot.
HTC is basically telling you, that if you want to be ranked very high, you must go out and perform all functions in the game, and do well at each and every one of them. Not just be the best in a single style of play.
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