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General Forums => Aces High General Discussion => Topic started by: Mister Fork on September 03, 2002, 05:57:07 PM
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1. At the start of the tour, do nothing but bombing runs. Kill factories, and airfield items such as bunkers, fuel, barracks. Do this a day.
2. After scoring a bunch of points bombing, get into a vehicle, ostie, panzer or pt, and shoot down guys. Do this a day.
3. Go on a bunch of attack runs in missions or by yourself. Strafe and destroy hangars or field items. Do this a day.
4. Get into your favorite plane and fly the rest of the tour in the top 100, no matter how badly you fly.
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People keep score?:eek:
Play for fun, screw the score. ;)
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I dont play with score in mind.Kinda takes the fun out of it.Im one of the guys that WILL go in there and get dirty straffing ack alone just to get some of it down for the next guy.Scores nice if it means something to ya,but for me.Its more fun getting something done.Even taking off from a vulched base to try to stop a goon.I may be more balls than brains in a dogfight but I have more fun doing it:D
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Originally posted by Mister Fork
1. At the start of the tour, do nothing but bombing runs. Kill factories, and airfield items such as bunkers, fuel, barracks. Do this a day.
2. After scoring a bunch of points bombing, get into a vehicle, ostie, panzer or pt, and shoot down guys. Do this a day.
3. Go on a bunch of attack runs in missions or by yourself. Strafe and destroy hangars or field items. Do this a day.
4. Get into your favorite plane and fly the rest of the tour in the top 100, no matter how badly you fly.
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Nobody actually think it works that way, do you? Troll award goes to fork.
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It actually does Turbot, :)
Spend some effort in Bombers, GV's and jabo run in beginning of tour, and you can fly whatever you want in the rest of the tour.
For some reason it is much harder to get total rank up late in the tour. I dunno why, but this is my experience as well.
I gave up on getting a high total rank, couple of tours ago. It doesn't mean anything to me anymore.
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I'm usually ranked high in Fighters and Attack anyway, but I always use the last couple days to do a few bombers and GV sorties to get my rank up.
I don't care so much about my personal rank, but a few guys in the squad take pride in the squad rank so I try not to let em down.
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Rank is cool. Stats are cool and scores are cool.
Best way to get into the top 100 is not to die.
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I only care for my kill ratio
like 0- 12 on spit IX in my trusty p38
or 2- 15 against La-7
and many more .. :D
I'm not afraid to do a 1 vs 1 one against anyone in the score rank 100
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The scores are always open to interpretation. Not only must you look at the score, but you must also take into consideration how the pilot was flying at the time, where, in what, and with whom. Score, on its own, means nothing. For example, there's a high ranking guy that I know, and when you look at his stats you would be impressed. But then you have to know the what/where/with whom parameters to make sense of it. And the guy I'm thinking about always goes mob-handed to an enemy field, typically flying an LA7. He gets lots of vulch kills, and when he gets into trouble, he can outrun anything else to get back to the safety of his friendlies. A case of riding on the coat tails of your friends, and about as meaningful as the number of votes "cast" for Robert Mugabe in Zimbabwe.
I get frustrated because the scores do not reward what *I* do, which is to strive primarily for field captures, or to defend fields. I don't give a crap about racking up points on the scoreboard, but they can serve as an indicator of performance. I like to view the stats to see what's killing me most, what I'm killing most, and which plane is working for me the best.
Other than that, I'm not interested. I couldn't tell you who's at the top of the board today. A little while ago, it was Cuckoo, but he flies dweeb planes like NIKs and LA7s almost exclusively. No challenge in that, and if one has to fly those planes to get into the top 100, well then you're never going to see me in the top 100. :p
BUG_EAF - we are so alike! I always note that LA7 ratio. :D Mine is currently 14-3. Not quite as good as yours. :)
Hey wait a minute - it gives my Attack Rank as 98, and Attack Rank against enemies as 30. :eek: I've only just noticed, as a result of checking the board before posting here. Well, I don't know how I did that. :confused: :confused: Shows how much faith I have in "scores". :cool:
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Overall rank seem to work pretty much that way, I've tested it although that was quite some time ago.
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Originally posted by beet1e
And the guy I'm thinking about always goes mob-handed to an enemy field, typically flying an LA7. He gets lots of vulch kills, and when he gets into trouble, he can outrun anything else to get back to the safety of his friendlies. A case of riding on the coat tails of your friends, and about as meaningful as the number of votes "cast" for Robert Mugabe in Zimbabwe.
do you realize this could describe any number of people? :eek:
one of the stats i generally find amusing for myself is my performance vs 38's.
27- 12 vs them in la7
11 - 1 vs them in a pony-d
41-13 overall.
and i generally go at 'em 1 on 1 (unless they have buddies around) in a variety of situations, usually from a disadvantage and pretty much tnb.
fork-tailed weevils must dieeeee!!! :p
oh, and i agree, it's pretty easy to game some of the stats for ranking. awright i confess, i game the buff and gv scores, sorta, to try and maintain a good rank, just cuz i know it *has* to be burning some score/rank potato (or an entire squad) to see me ranked above 'em. bwahahahahaha. ;)
<--- gratitious dig at some other thread.
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heh , i like your little Patton quote at the bottom misterfork , looks familar.
anyway just fly a n1k all tour and land 15 kills a sortie :D
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Originally posted by Duedel
Rank is cool. Stats are cool and scores are cool.
Best way to get into the top 100 is not to die.
thanks, i had some cereal stuck in my throat.
:D
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The jg guys worry about what we will think of them.
lazs
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top 25 pilots by plane type
that's all that's needed
It is called "Aces High" isn't it???
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Originally posted by Eagler
top 25 pilots by plane type
that's all that's needed
It is called "Aces High" isn't it???
Gets my vote.....
not that I would be checking it :D
[Cpt.Kirk]
Must ... not ... check ...
Must ... resist ...
[/Cpt.Kirk]
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Originally posted by Eagler
It is called "Aces High" isn't it???
it's an oxymoron.
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All it takes is two puters networked and two accounts. It was done in AW all the time. Up at one field on one account and repeatedly shoot yourself down. Same with GV fields. Weaslsan landed 202 kills in a 202. Not much fun, but it's your $14.95.
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Originally posted by weaselsan
All it takes is two puters networked and two accounts. It was done in AW all the time. Up at one field on one account and repeatedly shoot yourself down. Same with GV fields. Weaslsan landed 202 kills in a 202. Not much fun, but it's your $14.95.
1)Lame
2)No it wasn’t “done all the time” in AW
3)You didn’t have to do this-- if you wanted to inflate your ego— just head for the VOD in ETO or FT in BigPac
4)With 400+ players on in MA—could never be done—even in off hours it would be difficult
5)Reputation is earned in combat not with a score card
6)Lame
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5)Reputation is earned in combat not with a score card
Indeed. I much prefer to get thank you messages from other players than stats on a scoreboard.
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4)With 400+ players on in MA—could never be done—even in off hours it would be difficult
I see unguarded bases all the time in pie map.
last time I saw 400+ people on, not at prime time, was months ago.
:(
not like stats matter anyway though. except when someone wants to grief their own team by driving a cv into another or taking a vital shore battery/gun/whatever and then just not using it.
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""Indeed. I much prefer to get thank you messages from other players than stats on a scoreboard.""
Amen brother.
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BUG_EAF - we are so alike! I always note that LA7 ratio. Mine is currently 14-3. Not quite as good as yours.
Bug drivers just kick ass
they familiar not to dweeb out in a modern car
:D
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I tested the "how to improve rank" system in tour 31...without reading this thread, and it works, ended up as 86.
was a one time try to see what top 100 is about. Since i know that i suck and still can get to top 100 i will not bother anymore....just fly and have fun. :)
another thing to improve buff score:
take up an SBD with 1000lb bomb...drop it between some buidings so you get, say 5 things destroyed. Never fly a bomber again, and you will end up with 500% hit percentage and a good boost for bomber score.
I think the rank system is gonna be very hard to get fair, but some kind of use of the eny system could make it more fair. So if you kill a niki in a p47-d11 you get a score "boost".
I'd like to see a system that reduces the number of nikis, spits and LA7's in MA. (feel free to flame me for this :D )
I also think that we could merge the fighter and attack rank thingy to one. Having to choose between fighter and attack in hangar should IMO not be needed.
Its annoying if you have rolled as fighter, and need to attack a gv. The gv will not turn up on score if you destroy it. I know that a few pilots will not attack GV's if they only get the perks....Not good for you fellow countrymen.
:)