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Title: I'm gonna be an Ace one day...
Post by: BaldEagl on July 15, 2014, 08:46:42 PM
... I'm gonna be sombody

All I have to do is wait for another 2-3000 people to leave the game and I will rule the skies!   :t
Title: Re: I'm gonna be an Ace one day...
Post by: BnZs on July 15, 2014, 08:49:40 PM
I'm pretty sure you have 5 kills already :D
Title: Re: I'm gonna be an Ace one day...
Post by: Someguy63 on July 15, 2014, 08:56:07 PM
This may turn out to be quite the thread. :banana:
Title: Re: I'm gonna be an Ace one day...
Post by: SilverZ06 on July 15, 2014, 10:22:01 PM
i doubt there are 2000 players currently subscribed. I'd be surprised if there were 1000 active subscriptions honestly.  :(
Title: Re: I'm gonna be an Ace one day...
Post by: Zerstorer on July 15, 2014, 11:00:08 PM
 :cry
Title: Re: I'm gonna be an Ace one day...
Post by: BaldEagl on July 15, 2014, 11:20:54 PM
:cry

It's OK.  Don't cry.  I'll let you be an Ace too.







NOT   :t
Title: Re: I'm gonna be an Ace one day...
Post by: guncrasher on July 16, 2014, 12:22:46 AM
i doubt there are 2000 players currently subscribed. I'd be surprised if there were 1000 active subscriptions honestly.  :(


would love to know how you know that?


semp
Title: Re: I'm gonna be an Ace one day...
Post by: Someguy63 on July 16, 2014, 12:27:35 AM

would love to know how you know that?


semp

I think we have a pretty good idea there probably isn't.
Title: Re: I'm gonna be an Ace one day...
Post by: JimmyC on July 16, 2014, 12:37:39 AM
in my scores...Field Captures (attack)   0     rank..1411
I assume everyone who has no field captures  is ranked 1411 as well...
so surely at least 1411 subscribers have been scored ....no?
Title: Re: I'm gonna be an Ace one day...
Post by: Someguy63 on July 16, 2014, 01:21:38 AM
in my scores...Field Captures (attack)   0     rank..1411
I assume everyone who has no field captures  is ranked 1411 as well...
so surely at least 1411 subscribers have been scored ....no?



Nah, I wouldn't say so.
Title: Re: I'm gonna be an Ace one day...
Post by: sunfan1121 on July 16, 2014, 03:37:20 AM
And den i come back and pwn joo...

Seriously though, your dueling tourneys, along with KOTH have always been my favorite part of this game. Thanks for your time and patience, I appreciate it.  :salute
... I'm gonna be sombody

All I have to do is wait for another 2-3000 people to leave the game and I will rule the skies!   :t
Title: Re: I'm gonna be an Ace one day...
Post by: Lusche on July 16, 2014, 04:32:32 AM
in my scores...Field Captures (attack)   0     rank..1411
I assume everyone who has no field captures  is ranked 1411 as well...
so surely at least 1411 subscribers have been scored ....no?

Not everybody is flying 'attack''
Not everybody who does fly 'attack' is a subscriber

 :old:

Title: Re: I'm gonna be an Ace one day...
Post by: Zerstorer on July 16, 2014, 06:55:47 AM
It's OK.  Don't cry.  I'll let you be an Ace too.







NOT   :t

 ;)  :aok
Title: Re: I'm gonna be an Ace one day...
Post by: The Fugitive on July 16, 2014, 08:08:12 AM
in my scores...Field Captures (attack)   0     rank..1411
I assume everyone who has no field captures  is ranked 1411 as well...
so surely at least 1411 subscribers have been scored ....no?


You could have a thousand people tied for last place at 1411
Title: Re: I'm gonna be an Ace one day...
Post by: Wiley on July 16, 2014, 11:38:58 AM
Not everybody who does fly 'attack' is a subscriber

 :headscratch:

...We have non subscribers flying attack?

Not as an absolute number depending on how many are tied for 1411th, but wouldn't something like that indicate there are at least 1411 people subscribed?  Always wondered about that.

Wiley.
Title: Re: I'm gonna be an Ace one day...
Post by: TequilaChaser on July 16, 2014, 11:54:43 AM
:headscratch:

...We have non subscribers flying attack?

Not as an absolute number depending on how many are tied for 1411th, but wouldn't something like that indicate there are at least 1411 people subscribed?  Always wondered about that.

Wiley.

I would say that if you are showing 1411th in attack, that their are probably well over 2500+ subscribers who fly frequently, if they didn't your attack rank would be a helluva lot lower sub 1,000 even........

just a general thought.....

TC
Title: Re: I'm gonna be an Ace one day...
Post by: guncrasher on July 16, 2014, 12:42:08 PM
I know about 15 players who only play fso. 


semp
Title: Re: I'm gonna be an Ace one day...
Post by: Lusche on July 16, 2014, 01:07:58 PM
You could have a thousand people tied for last place at 1411

1411 is the last rank number still. If it were 1000 players tied for last rank, the rank numbers would be
408
409
410
1411

The last place' rank number does really indicate the number of players scoring in that particular category


Actually, the lowest attack rank of last tour was 1731.



:headscratch:

...We have non subscribers flying attack?

Not as an absolute number depending on how many are tied for 1411th, but wouldn't something like that indicate there are at least 1411 people subscribed?  Always wondered about that.

Wiley.


1) Anyone who plays AH is ranked. To the score system it doesn't matter if you are a subscriber or a two weeker. So in that number there are two weekers included. And AH actually has a lot of them. Probably several hundred per tour.
2) Many players don't play in attack mode at all. Last tour we had more than 2500 players with at least one kill or death in the late war arena. Some - many (?) of them being two weekers. On the other hand, some subscribing players may have taken a break for a month.

That should show that deducing actual subscriber numbers just from that factor alone is a quite defective method. I would not bother with it.


3) The number of "event only players" seem to be very small to me, after analysing populations of one scenario and one FSO session. Very few players didn't play in LW at all, and on average the FSO population turned out to be above average active in LW. I will do another analysis during the next days, if time allows



Title: Re: I'm gonna be an Ace one day...
Post by: Wiley on July 16, 2014, 02:53:30 PM
1) Anyone who plays AH is ranked. To the score system it doesn't matter if you are a subscriber or a two weeker. So in that number there are two weekers included. And AH actually has a lot of them. Probably several hundred per tour.


Doh...  Completely forgot that two weekers are people too and would count.

Wiley.
Title: Re: I'm gonna be an Ace one day...
Post by: Zerstorer on July 16, 2014, 03:00:02 PM
Doh...  Completely forgot that two weekers are people too and would count.

Wiley.

They are?  :lol
Title: Re: I'm gonna be an Ace one day...
Post by: morfiend on July 16, 2014, 03:02:59 PM
You could have a thousand people tied for last place at 1411



   Make rank or score is 0, does that mean nobody is flying? :devil



     :salute
Title: Re: I'm gonna be an Ace one day...
Post by: The Fugitive on July 16, 2014, 04:29:46 PM
1411 is the last rank number still. If it were 1000 players tied for last rank, the rank numbers would be
408
409
410
1411


The last place' rank number does really indicate the number of players scoring in that particular category





I don't think so. If you had 10 players tied for 1400 then the numbers would be like below....

1400
*
*
*
*
*
*
*
*
*
1410
1411 with a thousand players tied at the last number it would then continue in the same vein
*
*
*
*
*
*
*
*
*
*
*
*
...and so on
Title: Re: I'm gonna be an Ace one day...
Post by: Lusche on July 16, 2014, 05:13:51 PM
You may be right and I may be wrong with that  :old:

(However I do know for sure there simply aren't "several thousands" tied for last place (Yes, I know you weren't seriously claiming this ;) ))
Title: Re: I'm gonna be an Ace one day...
Post by: The Fugitive on July 16, 2014, 07:03:06 PM
You may be right and I may be wrong with that  :old:

(However I do know for sure there simply aren't "several thousands" tied for last place (Yes, I know you weren't seriously claiming this ;) ))


.... and thats what makes it so hard to find a "number" to use to show the subscription totals. the best we can do is use them as a comparison.

Tour 173 ____________I had "0" field captures and was ranked 1993
Tour 137 (3 years ago)  I had "0" field captures and was ranked 3004

A 30% drop in 3 years.
Title: Re: I'm gonna be an Ace one day...
Post by: 68ZooM on July 17, 2014, 10:00:12 AM
 :old: I was in ace last night  :old: it brought back the days of flight patrol over Macho Grande  :old: ..... yup last night I was an Ace, i was in  6 v 1 but one by one they went down..... that was a good six pack