Originally posted by Innominate
Field Captures in vehicles dont seem to count for anything.
One of the things that kind of bugs me is kill/death ratio. You can guarentee a high kill ratio by flying the lowest eny planes, such as the la7, niki, p51, etc. Someone who can maintain a 1 to 1 kill ratio flying a 202, is going to be a much better pilot than a pilot who can maintain the same kill ratio in an la7. I'd like to see a stat added below k/d ratio which would take the planes you fly into account. A simple way would be to just create a ratio of perks earned / perks given (Dropping the end of sortie multipliers) So the people who can maintain good kill ratios, in lesser aircraft, are rewarded. It would also be nice to see the number of damage points earned also be based on your plane. Why not have the ENY of your plane affect scoring as well as perks earned?
Anyways that that horse has been beaten a bit, The problem with removing scoring for vulching is that it will just have people hanging out 15k over a field waiting for an easy kill. Capturing a base would be nearly impossible without vulchers, except in milkruns. That or, it would simply be circumvented by killing people the moment they leave the ground. Fractional kills for killing planes on the ground really might be good though.
I'm not advocating eliminating vulching, just limiting the effect it has upon scoring. Besides, any knucklehead who respawns 12 times deserves what he gets.
I just find it unfortunate that people generate a high rank with a minimum of air to air kills. Now, I understand that some people have no regard for score. But, they might if it actually meant something.
As far as flying high ENY aircraft, I gained the vast majority of my kills flying the FM-2/F4F-4 and SBD. I’ll use a Dora or P-51 (both B and D) should circumstances require altitude and speed. Likewise, I’ll grab a C-Hog once in a while, or a Niki should the situation require (needing cannons for popping PTs or GVs). I also enjoy the Ki-61, Yaks and C.205. More than ever before, I spent a lot of time in bombers and GVs. Yet, I had just 3 field captures, largely because I find flying C-47s and driving M3s rather dull. There’s another “gamey” aspect that I dislike, proximity kills. I picked up several while defending CVs. I’d get a few snapshot pings on an attacker, but not enough to kill him. However, the AI ack would finish the job and I’d get the kill anyway. I was scolded by some guy who was flying around a CV collecting proxies. He was very upset that I had taken off, ‘cause I was stealing his kills by actually flying out a few miles and shooting down the enemy.. Go figure.
I agree, scoring should be based upon difficulty as well as total numbers. Certainly, a guy getting his kills in a C.202 or F4F-4 should receive a better score than a guy getting a similar number of kills in a Lavochkin or Dora or the like thereof.
My regards,
Widewing
