A question for "Score potatos"

[Nash]

Hey wetrat,

For a goof I tried to stay in the top 10 for the month. Don't ask me why - I dunno. It so wrecked my enjoyment of AH that I had to take a couple of months off.

Just an aside...

I was firmly planted in the top 10, and it was a day until the calendar rolled over into the next tour. But alas, I hooked up with the FDB on vox and did some "missions" with them. Spent the entire eve getting so completely pasted... prolly knocked me well into the 500-1000 range...

HiTech ended up putting the finishing touch on me that night...

That was a hoot.

My score whoring wasn't.

[Suave]

Consider the money that you are losing by trying to win that 34 bucks.

[Gixer]

At one stage I use to worry about overall score and trying to get in the top 25 but I quickly got bored with that and now I don't even bother thinking about ranks.

Plus come next tour everyone forgets previous tours scores and who cares anyway, it's just a game.

Now I just fly for fun and do what I enjoy. Help out fellow countrymen/women (flossy) where I can and hopefully put up a decent fight from time to time.  :-)



...-Gixer

[Pepe]

Dear GPreddy,

After reading your post I realize how pathetic my life is. I realize I am not paying attention to my duties, and I realize I'm a clueless loser.

I recognize the superior flying skills of score wh... ...of wise and smart superior fliers who understood and foresaw clearly that the very nature of fun in AH is score and rank.

I confess I am a dweeb and I confess I chase the vulch.......... the wise and smart superior flyer who just shoot me down to his very ack if needed, and I confess I usually kill him before he lands...If I manage to get airborne, that is  

I admit something must be broken inside my head, as I am totally unable to see the fun where the oh so superior bunch of I'm-the-number-one-cause-rank-ladder-say-so pilots does. Bearing in mind rank, they are obviously right, and I'm blatantly wrong.

I promise (where is that dang "crossed-fingers" smiley?) I will drop beer from my online combat experience, as it makes my judgment slower and dumber, and that detracts the fun, as I'm killed more often under the hands of the sober I-fly-for-rank pilots.

I am shocked that you guys-over-the-rest-cause-you-can-bag-more-kills-and-rank-over-us don't pay attention to our whines. I thought your superior skills enticed you to a superior sensibility about us, your inferiors. So sad about this that I'm seriously considering attending group therapy to overcome my depression. Maybe FDB could help here. BTW, you might consider to heighten your reading skills to the level of your flying ones, and so discern the statement of certain facts and experiences in first person and a question, from a whine.

I can't take failure easily ... In RL, that is. I still fail to see failure in AH, whatsoever, except the failure in having fun. Call me an AH unadapted. And book me for yer next "Fly for rank and having fun are not opposite terms" seminar. I'm sure you will have room enough. Plenty.  

Cheers,

[lazs2]

DMF... why... that's just...just.... selfish!
lazs

[Rude]

I don't know about anyone else, but this kid signed on for a flight sim, not a boat floatin bus drivin kinda thingie.

Now it's cool that HTC implemented these aspects of WW2...choice is a good thing...I just can't stand doin it if it's not in the air and that in of itself leaves me out of the scoring race.

To those who pursue rank...more power to ya...the point for all of us is to have fun like children...at least that's what I think:)

[Dead Man Flying]

Originally posted by GPreddy
Lev the guns dont count for rank anyway so whats it matter?

Because I don't like hopping into field guns when I could be flying a fighter plane?

-- Todd/Leviathn

[Pongo]

One thing I have noticed..You are about 200 times more likley to get a melt down on the BBS or channel one from someone who is in the top 10 then any other identifiable sub group of players.
Not a coincence I think.

Supprisingly Gpreddy-voss is being a little bit dishonest in his post..although I am sure that is how he sees himself.
To be ranked where he is, he constantly has his score computer going in his head. If anything that he is presented with risks his score..he doesnt do it. Period. Every time. There is no other way to maintain such a score. Try to maintain that for 200 hours of playing in a month and you'll know what kind of focused person he must be. Then try to delude yourself and everyone else into thinking it just happens when your a team player and you will know what a pathalogical lier he is..
BUT...its a game..and he is great at it.

[midnight Target]

I constantly check my k/d ratio, and as soon as it creeps over 1.0 I start upping capped fields...

Straightens that watermelon right out.

[Kanth]

I tried doing well but I really didn't like points dictating to me what I should be flying or driving or whatever..

I'd rather just do those as the mood strikes.

So I ended up not flying for a while now because of sudden burnout.


when I get back I'll prolly do more CT when folks are in there and of course the TOD's and stuff but game play in the MA has changed just like that one guy said it did. more kill stealing gang banging base taking ...it seems to be either all or nothing, no one wants to go out in a small group of say 2,4,6 people..it's usually 10,15,20 attacking a base with like 3 doods who keep upping bombers hoping to ack star the attackers down..not much fun in that.

I went into the CT a little bit before I took a break and was flying the stuka killing machine against hurri's and spits and altho I got ripped a little for doing it , I was having fun and I wasn't having much of that in the MA.

[maxtor]

Try hunting GV's in a M8 - totally wrecks your score.   But, once you get over car wrecking yourself every other sortie, it is great fun.  Zipping up and taking out unsuspecting GV's ( especially Ostwinds ) on the fly is almost like flying a fighter.   You have to practice good SA, the works -it's just more 2 dimensional (except now GV's can climb so you can be a bit creative in alt too)  Silly stuff like that puts the fun back in the game for me.

edit:  Do M8 in defense - it is not much fun to attack with as you can't be nearly as sneaky.  Defenders  are waiting on you and hear you coming.

[GPreddy]

Originally posted by Pongo
If anything that he is presented with risks his score..he doesnt do it. Period. Every time. There is no other way to maintain such a score.  

I think there are probably a few dozen Bishops that would disagree with that. The guys with the busted track ten feet off an enemy runway that I resupplied for instance. Or just ten minutes ago diving into a town surrounded by six flacks just to kill the m3 even though it meant certain death. Yeah YOU wouldnt do it but I would have and will again.

The FACT is that success wins over failure. If you succeed more then you fail then you score and therefore rank. If you fail and dont succeed you dont score well. If you dont try you cant do either and youll never learn how.

Understanding how all elements of the game work together and in opposition will help you succeed and help your team succeed. If you dont care about the other elements or how your team does then it doesnt matter what you do. Yes there are a lot of non-team players.

[maxtor]

resupply should not have a score penalty

[maxtor]

Originally posted by gatso
Stuff like logging on early morning

I enjoy flying in the early morning before work -  much more 1:1 fighting.  Again terrible for your score, but alot more fun to land 2 nice battles, than 6 vulches IMHO..

[Sixpence]

Originally posted by Dead Man Flying
I try to keep my rank over 1500, usually by never getting into a ground vehicle, never manning a field gun, never hopping into a PT Boat, and never flying a bomber.

I find that not doing the things that I find boring and lame goes a long way toward making me enjoy myself in Aces High.

-- Todd/Leviathn

We actually tried to figure out why they have PT boats. We looked over the map and found that the PT boat can be useful. We spawned ahead of the CV, there was a spawn point from our port that put you near a field to the north(in enemy hands). We managed to destroy the town and de-ack the field(and some fuel and such) from the shoreline. The rockets and cannons pack a punch. It was alot of fun.