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Offline Midnight

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« on: October 12, 2002, 09:44:20 AM »

Please remove Kills per Hour from the ranking calculation. It is unfair to guys like me that fly 10 minutes into enemy territory before engaging.

I spend at least 15 minutes of most sorties either flying to or coming back from engagements


Thank you
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Offline Rotorian

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« Reply #1 on: October 12, 2002, 09:50:50 AM »
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Offline SirLoin

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« Reply #2 on: October 12, 2002, 09:55:59 AM »
Kills per time only rewards/encourages vulching.

It discourages...

1:Flying perk planes.

2:Covering goons.

3:Flying early war/slow climbing planes.

4:Escorting buffs.

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Offline Tac

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« Reply #3 on: October 12, 2002, 10:14:17 AM »
I think scores should be kept by kills LANDED per hour.


Or make a new ranking system by just adding a new type of rank.


The current one with kills per hour and the new one with kills landed per hour.

That way the furballdweeb horde can say "I shoot down more planes than you, look at my rank!" and the scorepotato dweeb can say "yah? well I LANDED them, look at my (newrankname)!"



And then we need another new type of rank specifically for Fester and Mitsu. ;) :D
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Offline Airhead

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« Reply #4 on: October 12, 2002, 10:21:27 AM »
I think some people should quit looking at their scores. Who cares? Anyway the points system is flawed. I have only five kills, have yet to land one and I have over 3200 points. Voss has tons of landed kills yet he only has like six points. Does this mean I'm a better pilot than Voss? According to the scorecard I'm better than ALL of you.
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Offline Wilbus

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« Reply #5 on: October 12, 2002, 10:48:14 AM »
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According to the scorecard I'm better than ALL of you.


No you're not  :p

I liek Tac's idea though, kills landed/time. very good idea.
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Offline Shane

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« Reply #6 on: October 12, 2002, 10:56:56 AM »
landing's over-rated.  how can you be helping your side win the war when you're wasting time rtb?

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Offline Innominate

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« Reply #7 on: October 12, 2002, 11:00:48 AM »
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Originally posted by Airhead
I think some people should quit looking at their scores. Who cares? Anyway the points system is flawed. I have only five kills, have yet to land one and I have over 3200 points. Voss has tons of landed kills yet he only has like six points. Does this mean I'm a better pilot than Voss? According to the scorecard I'm better than ALL of you.


That's rank.

The lower the number the better.
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Offline Shane

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« Reply #8 on: October 12, 2002, 11:03:26 AM »
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Originally posted by Innominate
That's rank.
The lower the number the better.


most of the lower number guys are pretty rank...

:eek:

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Offline Steve

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« Reply #9 on: October 12, 2002, 11:39:51 AM »
Voss only has like 6 points because all his kills are proxy kills whilst he hides in ack :)
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Offline lazs2

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« Reply #10 on: October 12, 2002, 12:20:42 PM »
I believe that kill/hour is the only important stat.   I believe that it should be weighed the most heavily in the rank equation in order to discourage the cowardly alt monkeies and those who refuse to engage unless they have what they consider a risk free attack.

The fact that it discourages the flying of late model uber planes in the arena is simply a bonus....

The fact that only the score potatos are affected by the kills per hour stat is a perfect reason to weigh it more heavily since their cowardly behavior is what we should be trying to discourage.
lazs
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Offline Sandman

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« Reply #11 on: October 12, 2002, 12:30:43 PM »
What a complete surprise, Laz...

Oh... and nice catch there AirHead.
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« Reply #12 on: October 12, 2002, 12:31:52 PM »
remove accuracy also

that would make my day

thank u

Top 25 pilots per fighter plane would be nice
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Offline GScholz

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« Reply #13 on: October 12, 2002, 12:37:19 PM »
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Originally posted by lazs2
I believe that kill/hour is the only important stat.   I believe that it should be weighed the most heavily in the rank equation in order to discourage the cowardly alt monkeies and those who refuse to engage unless they have what they consider a risk free attack.

The fact that it discourages the flying of late model uber planes in the arena is simply a bonus....

The fact that only the score potatos are affected by the kills per hour stat is a perfect reason to weigh it more heavily since their cowardly behavior is what we should be trying to discourage.
lazs


I agree that always "playing it safe" should be discouraged, however a high K/D ratio is the mark of a true Ace. If you do not have a K/D of at least 5/1 you would never have become an Ace in the real world (and the game is named "Aces High" is it not?).

Btw. I'm not even close to a 5/1, prolly never will be. ;)
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Offline Airhead

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« Reply #14 on: October 12, 2002, 12:45:52 PM »
2 to 1, 5 to 1, 10 to 1- in real life the only meaningful number to a pilot is the "1". They didn't get to respawn.
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