Solutions and Statistics.....

[Innominate]

Originally posted by DoctorYO
I was waiting till you would engage in score whoring...  ah yes score...

Again you're missing the point.

The point is, that you're a competent pilot able to to jabo without trouble.  But you do it only rarely.

When statwhoring, damage per death, and damage per sortie matter.  In the war, total damage is all that matters.

[AKcurly]

Originally posted by DoctorYO
Inn, point taken but notice this example:  

You say youd rather have suicide tactics to win than have a more true to life system of attrition....  Ive flown on all three sides and i notice no more jabo or less jabo per sortie on any side.  More suicide yes... (bish); more alt monkey (knit luftwabbles), and more quality pilots all around (Rooks)

so what your saying youd rather game the game to win at all costs.  With no penalty for your actions.  

I rest my case......




DoctorYo

Suppose the numbers look like this: Knights 180, Bishop 140, Rooks 80.  What do you think the knights and bishop will be doing?  Most of the time, about 90 knights will be fighting 40 rooks and 70 bishops will be fighting the other 40 rooks.
There won't be a lot of field capture (by the rooks) going on.

When you see an attack coming, what do you (as a defender) do?  Well, you position your airplane so you can attack as they arrive.  That's the best possible scenario as a defender: Your enemy is intent on destroying a ground object - you're intent on shooting his butt,

Takes a pretty bad dog not to find a bone or two in that situation.  And, that's exactly the situation the rooks have found themselves in for as long as  I can remember (except for brief periods of number dominance.)

curly

[Lizard3]

Originally posted by Mathman
 I guess what chess piece country I fight for in a game truly is important and determines how much of a man I truly am.

Mathman, I hear your sarcasm and enjoy it, but...How come you only fly Bish then? If its really so unimportant in the scheme of things...

Are you saying your not only sarcastic, but a hypocritical sarcast?

[ET]

One moment in time,Sat at 8:35 EST

Folks on line
Bishops137, Knights 146, Rooks 99
Bishops 36%,Knights 38%,Rooks 26%

Bases owned
Bishops 25, Knights 29, Rooks 21
Bishops 35%,Knights 39%,Rooks 26%

I doubt if I ever see numbers this close again.

[Urchin]

Originally posted by Krusher
Not that I really care about attrition but, would it work if it was based per player?

per day quota (based on plane value)
1 262
1 Spit XIV
1 F4U-4

2 P51
2 109G10
2 La7

3 P47's
3 La5's
3 Spit V

You still have your choice of aircraft, but it is limited.

Wouldn't work for a couple reasons.  First, I pay my 15 bucks to fly whatever the hell I want.  As many times as I want.  If I want to try to up a Heavy C-Hog off a CV, I'll probably die 3 or 4 times before I manage to get it off the deck.  

Second, it would make people fly like godawful rutabagas.  Yea, more than they do already.  People already do nothing but Bore n Zoom 90% of the time, you make it so they only get to fly their runstang or la7 twice a day they'll do it nothing but 100% of the time.  It is already bad enough if you want to fly something other than a N1K, Spit, or one of the runners, that'd just make it worse.

[Mathman]

Originally posted by Lizard3
Mathman, I hear your sarcasm and enjoy it, but...How come you only fly Bish then? If its really so unimportant in the scheme of things...

Are you saying your not only sarcastic, but a hypocritical sarcast?

Damn Liztard, you figured me out.  I am the biggest hypocrit.  I always rant on how good the bish are and the other countries suck.

Then again, maybe I fly bish because that is where my squad is.

And btw hick, pumpkin is a noun.

[BUG_EAF322]

Doctoryo is just a nik dweeb.

what about skill??

[ccvi]

Originally posted by Krusher
Not that I really care about attrition but, would it work if it was based per player?

You still have your choice of aircraft, but it is limited.

LOL!

Now THAT would be fun. 150 bish get to fly 150 x plane quota, knits get 130 x plane quota and rooks get 70 x plane quota.

Even with the rook K/D of 1.14 mentioned in the first post that wouldn't leave any chance to rooks.


What could work is a per country quota, that would give each country an equal number of planes (e.g. 1 plane every 20 seconds, or 1 plane every 2 minutes from each airfield; plane/time weighted by total players online). You would either have to wait for your ride a few minutes, or change to a country with lower numbers.

[Conagher]

Here is one thing to consider about the Rook high K:D ratio. Since they are defending most of the time, that would account for the furballing aspect. The other point is, all of us at one time or another has defended a base tooth and toenail with a bunch of guys we don't know that well, but when the action gets think the defenders tend to communicate much better than the attackers. I fly for the Knights, and most of what I see are people in the ground attack role, and a few scattered bombers, but we never communicate as well on the range radio as we do when we are defending. I would assume that the Rooks are the same way. Just a thought I could be way off base.


Conn

[ccvi]

I don't think a good defence close to a field (not forward CAP) requires much communication, except maybe calling out where enemies are coming from etc.

And of course "Stupid fighters, two on the one low con is enough, rest of you climb, damnit! Climb!! Before more of them come here, CLIMB!!!"


OTHO good offence needs a lot of communication.

[GScholz]

Originally posted by ccvi
I don't think a good defence close to a field (not forward CAP) requires much communication, except maybe calling out where enemies are coming from etc.

And of course "Stupid fighters, two on the one low con is enough, rest of you climb, damnit! Climb!! Before more of them come here, CLIMB!!!"


OTHO good offence needs a lot of communication.

Ccvi! How many times have I not seen 5 or 6 Rooks dive after that lone Tiffie, and find myself circling alone at 15K awaiting the next hoard.