Widewing said:
There are built-in error factors here too. It adds in kills as a Ships Gunner, kills in GVs, kills of GVs and so on. It also does not distinguish between real kills and proximity kills. All of these distort the record.
Yeah, there are problems with all the scoring web pages. They don't agree with each other because they all count different things, some of them count the same things in different ways, or they use them differently in a formula. And there's damn little clarifying info available to help you figure out why there are these differences and how to translate one page's numbers into another page's numbers.
I don't think any page, however, makes a distinction between guns kills and auger kills. Unlike fates, where the score page tracks 6 different ways your hop can end, it only shows 1 line for kills in general and another for assists. Maybe it just doesn't show auger kills at all, only guns kills. But in that case, why bother awarding you an auger kill at all?
Still, that's definitely a possibility. I know the score page already doesn't show all your kills. As you point out, ship gunner kills don't show on that page at all. Also, it seems that the score page doesn't show kills of GVs scored while flying a plane. I've checked for this a number of times in my own case and am pretty sure that's the case.
Who knows? I guess you just have to go with what you're comfortable with. I prefer the stats page because I know it shows all kills I score. If I don't feel like counting my ship gunner kills, because I'm at so little risk doing that, the total is clearly denoted and can be subtracted out. Plus, the only deaths it counts are somebody got a kill on me. No discos, no augers in friendly territory to get to a mission quickly, etc. Of course, I only bail like once every couple months to participate in a squadron awards or induction ceremony inside a hangar, so don't really care about all the different fates on the score page.
For this reason I try to keep detailed records on paper.
Geez, you sound like me
. I kept a logbook of all my sorties for the 1st several months I flew AW, and until the end of both my AW and WB careers, I kept a complete list of everybody I'd shot down and what we were both flying at the time. I was more into keeping track of nme pilots than kill numbers per se--it was a Hate thing
In those games, you could pull up a "dance card" showing all your recent victims and it was so much fun to post screen shots of it showing how you'd spanked some Hated Enema 8 times in a row, or wiped out a whole Hated squad. Unfortunately, I haven't been able to find such a dance card in AH so I've quit keeping this record
Damn, I miss that.
Also, I quite often miss it when I get auger kills. Then I finally shoot somebody down and it says he's kill #3 or whatever, so it's impossible to reconstruct what happened without total dedication to filming and taking the time to watch them all.
I guess what you're saying is that you just write down your guns kills and ignore the augers? Do you do that every time? For instance, I never fired a shot in what I consider one of my better ACM fights. I got caught low and slow in a Jug by an La7 but, after making him bleed by turning nose-to-tail on him for several passes, he ended up stalling at low alt
I figure I earned a kill for that so if I was keeping records like you, I'd count that one even though it was an auger.
