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Offline Alpo

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« Reply #15 on: December 02, 2002, 03:12:54 PM »
Might be interesting watching everyone try for these prizes but with all of the oddities built into the ranking system (base capture a part of bombing) I don't see how it's really going to work.  

I'm agreeing with Ripsnort on both of his posts.
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Offline Mickey1992

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« Reply #16 on: December 02, 2002, 03:18:43 PM »
Time online does translate into rank in that the more time online, the more time to do damage.  If you look at the scoring page that Pyro references in his post, there are quite a few score components that are cumulative and not based on "per sortie".

I do like that any one person can only rank in the "top 15" once in the four month period.  That was a nice touch.

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« Reply #17 on: December 02, 2002, 03:21:38 PM »
Hmmm...when you bail, does that make your score "better" than if you die?  And if your chute gets shot, does that make your sortie count as a death rather than a "bail"?

Sounds like even more incentive to shoot the meatwads hanging under the canopies.  :D

Step up and do your part to help keep someone from winning $100.  :)

Offline popeye

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« Reply #18 on: December 02, 2002, 03:21:46 PM »
Maybe HTC will let us redeem our Perkies for swell prizes.
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Offline SunKing

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« Reply #19 on: December 02, 2002, 03:24:24 PM »
so let me see if I've been studying the BBS correctly.

1st) Sit in your hanger and shoot the walls.  
2nd) Take Moosie when vulch light is on.
3rd) land 15+ vulch run
4th) Blow up some stuff with a bomber/gunner/osti

Offline Duedel

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« Reply #20 on: December 02, 2002, 03:28:39 PM »
I like it. WTG HTC good move.

BTW is it really necessary to discuss every little thing - just a question?
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Offline Mitsu

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« Reply #21 on: December 02, 2002, 03:29:04 PM »
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It only means that Mitsu is going to spend twice as much time online looking for vulching oportunities ;)


OK! OK!

Stay on the runway of a deacked field for 4 months, Animal.
I'm gonna vulch only you! :p
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« Reply #22 on: December 02, 2002, 03:38:47 PM »
What about giving the right of releasing own favorite planes in Aces high, instead of money?

Then I would get a #1 rank in each tour, and I request the following planes to HTC:

1st month: Ki-100
2nd month: Ki-44
3rd month: Ki-45
4th month: Ki-43
Championship Shootout: Ki-84

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Offline MrLars

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« Reply #23 on: December 02, 2002, 03:39:57 PM »
IMO, this isn't the direction HTC should be going in.

Prizes for Scenario or SE's OK but to monitarily award score whoring in the MA will be just another step closer to the arcade play that I got into this type of game to get away from.

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« Reply #24 on: December 02, 2002, 03:41:29 PM »
This seems really stupid to me.  Of coarse, if I was one of the very few players who might actually be able to compete for this I might think otherwise, but I think this is just going to be used as justification by those few players to do all sorts of "gamey" things to enhance their scores even more.  This will make the MA an even more unpleasant place than it already is IMO.  

Very sad if HTC actually thinks this is a good move to attract more interest in AH.  What with all the possible fixes, enhancements, additional planes, GVs, strat, etc. that could be added to the game to increase the enjoyment of the bulk of its customers, I find it mildly disturbing that they have chosen this avenue in which to funnel their (our?) precious development time and money in order to reward a very small minority of the player base.

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« Reply #25 on: December 02, 2002, 03:45:27 PM »
Mickey I just proved you with proof time online doesnt translate to rank.

I know how the rank system works in ah. The most competive 2 parts of fighter rank are kill per sortie and kill per time online.

You can online for 300 hours and a kd of 20 to 1 and a damage per sortie that ranks number 1 but if dont have atleat a 2.7 kill per sortie and a kill per time above 12 your fighter rank will be out of the top ten.

Kills per time is the most important in terms of fighter rank. This does matter how many hours hour you have online as long as you kill a ton of stuff.

Like I said time online is just an excuse for under achievement.


BTW that "scoring page that pyro references in his post" has been there for some time.

Its how the rank system always worked.

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« Reply #26 on: December 02, 2002, 03:45:28 PM »
should be by plane type - nothing as large as $100 a pop

maybe a free month sub

maybe quarterly instead of monthly
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« Reply #27 on: December 02, 2002, 03:49:15 PM »
Well I can already make a good guess at the 60 finalists, I'm not gonna be in there anyway so that sux but it'll be interesting to see who wins the overall prize.

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And the score potatos will become even more psychotic when they are shot down.


Well I'll be getting my fun from hearing the whines on ch 1 during this time :D

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« Reply #28 on: December 02, 2002, 03:50:03 PM »
the winner should be banned from AH for one month in order to get their yearly supply of vitamin SUN !

that or some makeup so we don't have to witness another "king-of-pop" tragedy.

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« Reply #29 on: December 02, 2002, 03:51:34 PM »
I peaked 2 months early  :(

Score chasing is lame, boring and requires you to spend far too much time gaming the game. I won't be actively 'going for it' for at least the first month, after that the $ may make me change my mind.

Before this happens I hope HTC revamps the scoring categories and revises the way categories are calculated. (No more stupid squid shooting, No more increasing hit% by shooting friendly structures, dead structures not boosting stats when hit, fix the GV objecy hit% score and a bunch of other stuff)

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