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Title: Death's and fighter scores
Post by: Ohio43 on March 08, 2005, 09:46:55 AM

Other than the K/D ratio for scoring, does deaths have any other impact on fighter score?  I seem to recall seeing a few scores of people that have a decent to good fighter score, but yet have way more deaths than kills.  Anyone know?

Title: Death's and fighter scores
Post by: hammer on March 08, 2005, 10:15:10 AM

Deaths also affect your points.

Air points = PlaneDamageScore + KillScore

PlaneDamageScore =
(DamagePointsScoredOnEnemiesTh isSortie * DeathMult) +
TotalTourPlaneDamageScoredOnE nemies

KillScore =
((AirKillsThisSortie * 1.0) + (AirAssistsThisSortie * 0.25) +
(GroundKillsThisSortie * 1.0) + (GroundAssistsThisSortie * 0.25) * DeathMult) + TotalTourKillScore

Death Multipliers:
Landed 1.0
Discoed 0.25
Bailed 0.5
Ditched 0.75
Captured 0.4
Killed 0.25
Crashed 0.25

It's also important to remember that Kill/Sortie, Kill/Time and Hit Percentage all factor into the ranking, too. Someone who furballs until the bitter end, gets lots of kills, but rarely returns to base can still have a high ranking because they can have a high kill/sortie and tend to have a better kill/time (they save all that time not flying back to base!).

Hope that answers the question.

Title: Death's and fighter scores
Post by: Schutt on March 09, 2005, 06:09:01 AM

Ahh great hammer... i always wonderd what these scores mean. How did your find out, or was it published by HT some time?

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Originally posted by hammer
Deaths also affect your points.

Air points = PlaneDamageScore + KillScore

PlaneDamageScore =
(DamagePointsScoredOnEnemiesTh isSortie * DeathMult) +
TotalTourPlaneDamageScoredOnE nemies

KillScore =
((AirKillsThisSortie * 1.0) + (AirAssistsThisSortie * 0.25) +
(GroundKillsThisSortie * 1.0) + (GroundAssistsThisSortie * 0.25) * DeathMult) + TotalTourKillScore

Death Multipliers:
Landed 1.0
Discoed 0.25
Bailed 0.5
Ditched 0.75
Captured 0.4
Killed 0.25
Crashed 0.25

One thing, the second formular looks wrong to me. Shouldn't that be
KillScore = ((AirKillsThisSortie * 1.0) + (AirAssistsThisSortie * 0.25) +
(GroundKillsThisSortie * 1.0) + (GroundAssistsThisSortie * 0.25)) * DeathMult + TotalTourKillScore

aka deathmult applied to the sum of all the kills rather than just the ground assists.

ciao schutt

Title: Death's and fighter scores
Post by: hammer on March 09, 2005, 07:56:18 AM

the formulas are cut and paste from the HTC web site's scoring page (http://www.hitechcreations.com/ahhelp/scoring.html).

I agree with your thinking on the second formula, but that's straight from their page. ;)

Title: Death's and fighter scores
Post by: Darkish on March 09, 2005, 09:13:36 AM

The DeathMult is applied to sum of all kills: Expression starts with ((...

i.e the way they've got it is ((sum of a all kills)*DeathMult) + TotalTourScore

Title: Death's and fighter scores
Post by: hammer on March 09, 2005, 09:39:21 AM

technically, wouldn't that be

(((AirKillsThisSortie * 1.0) + (AirAssistsThisSortie * 0.25) +
(GroundKillsThisSortie * 1.0) + (GroundAssistsThisSortie * 0.25)) * DeathMult)

:D

Title: Death's and fighter scores
Post by: Darkish on March 09, 2005, 09:45:47 AM

Blimey, looking at it a second time, I think you're right!

Title: Death's and fighter scores
Post by: Schutt on March 09, 2005, 10:01:28 AM

That would work too, but since * is calculated before + you can get kock off most brackets:
Sum{of all Sorties}(AirKillsThisSortie * 1.0 + AirAssistsThisSortie * 0.25 + GroundKillsThisSortie * 1.0 + GroundAssistsThisSortie * 0.25) * DeathMultThisSortie)

(now im looking for a correct way to describe that its the sum of the values for all sorties in tour)

The way its displayed on the score page is definetly wrong... to bad i cant put formulars in here. I prepaired two gifs to show the correct formular but dont know where to upload them.

Title: Death's and fighter scores
Post by: wetrat on March 10, 2005, 11:21:10 AM

If your fighter score is of concern to you, I wouldn't worry about deaths too much... just kill lots of things before you die ;)