The scores are always open to interpretation. Not only must you look at the score, but you must also take into consideration how the pilot was flying at the time, where, in what, and with whom. Score, on its own, means nothing. For example, there's a high ranking guy that I know, and when you look at his stats you would be impressed. But then you have to know the what/where/with whom parameters to make sense of it. And the guy I'm thinking about
always goes mob-handed to an enemy field, typically flying an LA7. He gets lots of vulch kills, and when he gets into trouble, he can outrun anything else to get back to the safety of his friendlies. A case of riding on the coat tails of your friends, and about as meaningful as the number of votes "cast" for Robert Mugabe in Zimbabwe.
I get frustrated because the scores do not reward what *I* do, which is to strive primarily for field captures, or to defend fields. I don't give a crap about racking up points on the scoreboard, but they can serve as an indicator of performance. I like to view the stats to see what's killing me most, what I'm killing most, and which plane is working for me the best.
Other than that, I'm not interested. I couldn't tell you who's at the top of the board today. A little while ago, it was Cuckoo, but he flies dweeb planes like NIKs and LA7s almost exclusively. No challenge in that, and if one has to fly those planes to get into the top 100, well then you're never going to see me in the top 100.
BUG_EAF - we are so alike! I always note that LA7 ratio.
Mine is currently 14-3. Not quite as good as yours.
Hey wait a minute - it gives my Attack Rank as 98, and Attack Rank against enemies as 30.
I've only just noticed, as a result of checking the board before posting here. Well, I don't know how I did that.
Shows how much faith I have in "scores".
