Ok. My bad. In apologetics they train you never to assume that a person has the same presuppositions, experience, educational background that you do. I forgot that rule here.
Let me back-up one step more and show how the numbers I posted prove the point I was trying to make.
In the MA we have three nations, therefore each nation is at war with two other nations. All of the nations use the same planeset and gravitate towards the same high-end planes (which is why there is always a surplus of LA7s, Nikis, Spits IXs). Given all of this the experiences of pilots from each nation will be generally very similar. Now when a pilot from these nations takes off there are 2 possibile ways in which he can affect the numbers I posted. 1) He gets kills or 2) He is shot down. The only way he can *not* affect the numbers in a sortie is if 3) He takes off and does not get killed and does not shoot someone down. This would be the case if say I took off and flew away from all combat or augured immediately after take off with no enemy planes around. Experience teaches us however that most missions result in options 1 or 2 and often 1 AND 2.
Now, IF we are to assume, as several of you seem to, that there are roughly equal numbers of all three nations then the numbers would be roughly the same given the same number of sorties. If one nation was composed of pilots who were markedly BETTER than the pilots of other nations, the KILLS register would be higher. If they were markedly worse the KILLED register would be higher. The numbers though generally even out within limits - kills to killed are usually pretty similar, and this is reflected in the fact that most planes types do not have a K/D over 2.
Given these factors, the ONLY way the Rooks could be showing such markedly lower numbers (close to 20K) in the Kills/Killed area would be if Rooks were quite substantially more likely to avoid combat or auger behind the lines. The idea that the numbers simply show that Knights and Bishops are more likely to fight each other rather than Rooks is absurd, because that would require the existence of another mystery country X that the rooks were fighting instead of the Knights and Bishops. Think on this and you'll see how it works. Rooks have to be fighting somebody when they sortie (Bishops or Knights), given roughly the same number of pilots, those combats would produce different numbers. "Vulching" doesn't provide a magic way out either, as if the Bishops and Knights always tusseled with each other exclusively our KILLS would be much higher as we vulched bases with no one trying to fight us (we'd also be reseting the knights and bish 30% more often than they reset us - see how this works).
Unless you really want to defend one of these theories:
1) Rooks avoid combat and usually take off and fly away from the enemy
or
2) There is a mystery country X that the Rooks are fighting.
then the only logical explanation is THAT THE ROOKS CONSISTENTLY HAVE FEW PILOTS ONLINE! This QED is the only logical explanation for those numbers.
Now to show you that this bears out I'll tell you what I'll do, I will try to post the Roster from each day at 12pm and 6:00pm. This avoids any chance of me waiting for the right odd "moment" and then grabbing non-typical numbers. I think what you will find though is that Bishop and Knight numbers are consistently roughly the same, while the Rook numbers are between 10-30% lower. This usually makes from anything from a 35/35/30 breakout to a 40/40/20 breakout.
With that in mind here is todays MA roster at 6:04 PM ET.
- SEAGOON
