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Title: Contest is corrupt
Post by: N8DOG on March 12, 2003, 11:55:20 PM
oops
Title: Contest is corrupt
Post by: wetrat on March 13, 2003, 12:54:50 AM
No, you just suck so much that you can't even rank in AH... there's a difference.
Title: Contest is corrupt
Post by: Pooh21 on March 13, 2003, 06:41:04 AM
thats cold Wetrat

you should have some compassion for his feelings.
Title: Contest is corrupt
Post by: Nilsen on March 13, 2003, 09:06:25 AM
of course it is corrupt !

You have to pay HTC MONEY to play the game and be in the contest..

so in a way it is :D
Title: Contest is corrupt
Post by: MrLars on March 13, 2003, 10:12:05 AM
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Originally posted by wetrat
No, you just suck so much that you can't even rank in AH... there's a difference.


Izzat like saying that in order to rank high in AH you have to...be...good...ROFL!
Title: Contest is corrupt
Post by: Sixpence on March 13, 2003, 11:03:13 AM
You have to work each rank. I was shown a few tricks for score, like supplying damaged areas, stuff like that. Then you have to have the patience(spell?) to do it.

I keep augering to get another plane or go somewhere else, so count me out:D
Title: Contest is corrupt
Post by: Swoop on March 13, 2003, 12:05:30 PM
"supplying damaged areas" helps your score?

How?

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Title: Contest is corrupt
Post by: Nilsen on March 13, 2003, 12:20:13 PM
it doesnt swoop
Title: Contest is corrupt
Post by: Swoop on March 13, 2003, 12:29:01 PM
Then what line of bollocks was sixpense fed and who by?

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Title: Contest is corrupt
Post by: Nilsen on March 13, 2003, 01:32:04 PM
he must have missunderstood something or he just has no clue about getting good rank
Title: Contest is corrupt
Post by: Nwbie on March 13, 2003, 01:49:30 PM
Supplying fields adds to your bomber ranking score
So it does help a little, I tell the new guys if they want to drop like 1500 in rank, goon 3 or 4 times a month at least, if they don't care about the score like me, I tell them look at the stats of what you like to do.such as fighters, bombers, gv or whatever, then just have fun


NwBie
Title: Contest is corrupt
Post by: Swoop on March 13, 2003, 01:59:39 PM
NwBie,


gooning does, cos we have a score variable called "field captures".

Running supplies....doesnt.  We dont have a score section called "fields resupplied".  If running supplies to fields helps your score then I'd be very interested to know what variable it increases.......cos I'll be damned if I can think of one it relates to.

Of course I may be wrong.  I've only just found out that the "hit% v objects when in a vehicle" score variable actually means "hit% with ONLY rockets and torps when in a PT boat" and I've been here since tour 1.

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Title: Contest is corrupt
Post by: Nilsen on March 13, 2003, 02:11:20 PM
im 1000000% sure that resupply does NOT help rank, just your m8's and popularity if you drop em :)

Hitech.....come tell everyone pls :)
Title: Contest is corrupt
Post by: Fariz on March 13, 2003, 02:53:26 PM
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Originally posted by MrLars
Izzat like saying that in order to rank high in AH you have to...be...good...ROFL!


You have to be motivated, experienced, persistent and good.
Title: Contest is corrupt
Post by: MrLars on March 13, 2003, 03:07:12 PM
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Originally posted by Fariz
You have to be motivated, experienced, persistent and good.


Ya forgot to add that ya need the time equilivant of a part time job that can be dedicated to playing the game in order to achieve rank < sic >
Title: Contest is corrupt
Post by: Fariz on March 13, 2003, 03:14:56 PM
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Originally posted by MrLars
Ya forgot to add that ya need the time equilivant of a part time job that can be dedicated to playing the game in order to achieve rank < sic >


It is a legend. You can make top 20 with 10-15 hours of AH playing time any tour.

Dedicated time is important factor, but not a single.
Title: Fariz...
Post by: g00b on March 13, 2003, 03:20:32 PM
Prove it!
Title: Contest is corrupt
Post by: Octavius on March 13, 2003, 03:26:10 PM
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Originally posted by MrLars
Ya forgot to add that ya need the time equilivant of a part time job that can be dedicated to playing the game in order to achieve rank < sic >


Not really MrLars... ya gotta play with the system.  It doesn't take 250+ hours a month to do it either.  

Take a look at my scores from last tour.  80ish hours.

Sure, I flew a little more than I had wanted to, but I got the job done and thats the price ya pay for playing the contest.
Title: Contest is corrupt
Post by: Nilsen on March 13, 2003, 03:26:41 PM
wrong lars, time does not have much to do with it
Title: Octavius
Post by: g00b on March 13, 2003, 03:32:05 PM
80 hours last tour... That's not alot? That's over 2 hours a day, every day.

Time = points. Points = rank to significant degree.

The lowest number of hours I have ever seen someone get into the top 50 was like 40 hours. Still more than I care to play...
Title: Contest is corrupt
Post by: Nilsen on March 13, 2003, 03:32:51 PM
how much you care to play is not the issue either
Title: Contest is corrupt
Post by: Sixpence on March 13, 2003, 03:40:45 PM
I dropped supply on a damaged AA factory, I got 36.56 perks for it, so it does effect score somehow I would think.
Title: Re: Fariz...
Post by: Fariz on March 13, 2003, 03:43:00 PM
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Originally posted by g00b
Prove it!


What for?

If you can motivate me someway, for example, by betting something valuable, I can do it next tour.

Time effects 6 values out of 30 total that matters when rank is calculated. So, roughly speaking, time is 1/5th of success in ranking.
Title: Re: Octavius
Post by: Octavius on March 13, 2003, 03:45:23 PM
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Originally posted by g00b
80 hours last tour... That's not alot? That's over 2 hours a day, every day.

Time = points. Points = rank to significant degree.

The lowest number of hours I have ever seen someone get into the top 50 was like 40 hours. Still more than I care to play...


"a lot" is a relative term goob.  

Lets see... I don't have a job, I don't have a wife/kids, I am a student, and I have a life outside of AH.  Time management my friend.  My lifestyle can fit up to 2 hours of AH each day (maybe more, but at this point I choose not to).

If you don't want to play by the scoring system's rules, then don't participate.
Title: Contest is corrupt
Post by: Arlo on March 13, 2003, 04:04:59 PM
Delete it and the whole thread disappears. ;)

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Originally posted by N8DOG
oops
Title: Contest is corrupt
Post by: Swoop on March 13, 2003, 04:14:50 PM
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Originally posted by Sixpence
I dropped supply on a damaged AA factory, I got 36.56 perks for it, so it does effect score somehow I would think.


Perks isnt score.

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Title: Contest is corrupt
Post by: BGBMAW on March 13, 2003, 04:27:44 PM
N8Dog ranks in the hundreds....


thats nateMAW


and he will kik ur ass


lolol


Love
BiGB
Title: Re: Octavius
Post by: Blue Mako on March 13, 2003, 04:36:57 PM
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Originally posted by g00b
80 hours last tour... That's not alot? That's over 2 hours a day, every day.

Time = points. Points = rank to significant degree.

The lowest number of hours I have ever seen someone get into the top 50 was like 40 hours. Still more than I care to play...


I ranked 17th with a little under 50 hours last tour.

A few tours back (before the competition) I ranked 12th with about 42 hours.

It can be done.
Title: Contest is corrupt
Post by: Nilsen on March 13, 2003, 04:56:34 PM
yup, actualy alot of the things requiered to get good rank depends on NOT spending to much time.

Im thinking about kills/time in gv, fighter and attack mode.
Title: Contest is corrupt
Post by: Swoop on March 13, 2003, 05:26:41 PM
You mean more time spend just flying around doing nothing.  We're talking about total time online.


listen:


more time online = more sorties flown = more opportunity to get kills = probably more kills = more points.

k/death, k/time, k/sortie, hit%, etc are NOT EFFECTED.  All you get for flying longer is more points on your total score.

But that total score seems to make a huge difference in rank and I really dont see a good reason why it should.  

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Title: Contest is corrupt
Post by: Nilsen on March 13, 2003, 05:55:01 PM
if your Kill/time ratio is poor ie u need alot of flying time to get kills, it will affect your fighter rank. Same applies for GV and attack rank.
Title: Contest is corrupt
Post by: bockko on March 13, 2003, 06:37:45 PM
well i dunno about getting into the top 50, but i did check some "top" contest participants...200+ hours. :confused:  That equates to a full time job with overtime. Wow. I'll take my highly volatile but inconsistent ;)  score I guess.

bockk
Title: Contest is corrupt
Post by: wetrat on March 13, 2003, 06:43:08 PM
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Originally posted by MrLars
Izzat like saying that in order to rank high in AH you have to...be...good...ROFL!

No, it's saying that he's so terrible that he can't. You don't need to be good at all.

N8 has a low k/d, lower k/t, even lower k/s, and low hit %. All signs point to wuss pilot. Oh, and he has 0 attack sorties.. rank well? not a chance.
Title: Contest is corrupt
Post by: wetrat on March 13, 2003, 06:46:13 PM
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Originally posted by Fariz
It is a legend. You can make top 20 with 10-15 hours of AH playing time any tour.

Dedicated time is important factor, but not a single.

This is true. I ranked about 5th in January(?.. maybe Feb), and flew about 40 hours.. that's not a whole lot of time online. You don't need to fly all day to rank, you just need to be a dedicated wuss.

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Originally posted by bockko
well i dunno about getting into the top 50, but i did check some "top" contest participants...200+ hours. :confused:  That equates to a full time job with overtime. Wow. I'll take my highly volatile but inconsistent ;)  score I guess.

bockk

40 hours? An hour a day, maybe 2 hours on Sundays.
Title: Contest is corrupt
Post by: Swoop on March 13, 2003, 06:48:34 PM
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Originally posted by Nilsen10
if your Kill/time ratio is poor ie u need alot of flying time to get kills, it will affect your fighter rank.


Thats my point.  Well acually, if your kill/time ratio is really, really poor then chances are so is your hit%, k/d and k/s.....which kinda precludes this whole argument.  Anyway, on with my point.



See, if pilot A can fly 20 hours, get a 10:1 k/d ratio, 10 kills a sortie, 25% hit ratio and 10 kills per hour, thats 200 kills.

Pilot B could fly 200 hours, get a 5:1 k/d ratio, 5 kills a sortie, a 12% hit ratio and 5 kills per hour, thats 1000 kills.




Who would say flew better and deserves the higher rank?  And if pilot B then why?

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Title: Contest is corrupt
Post by: N8DOG on March 13, 2003, 10:09:13 PM
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N8 has a low k/d, lower k/t, even lower k/s, and low hit %. All signs point to wuss pilot. Oh, and he has 0 attack sorties.. rank well? not a chance.

     Well you Golly-geen moron, if you noticed I said I wasnt very high in rank, and that my best was 75th. As fer wuss pilot, hmmm big dog you are talkin behind a computer, If I had a lower rank than you in this game then it would mean I have less of a life than you. Go ahead and act big and bad and when ur grandkids ask about what you accomplished in your life you can tell them that you had a better rank than N8DOG in this stupid little sim called Aces High. That should really impress them. Hell, you might even want to put that on your resume.
Mooooooooooooooooo
Title: Contest is corrupt
Post by: Octavius on March 13, 2003, 10:33:25 PM
lol N8.

Hypocrite.  You accuse him of playing a 'stupid little sim' yet you play the same game?  Funny!  

Your attempt at mocking and/or controling others' time in AH is pathetic and isn't constructive and certainly isn't necessary.

Don't waste your energy getting mad at your score as wetrat pointed out... as you indicated earlier before editing your post, score means nothing right?  

So carry on, have fun, and stop complaining.
Title: Contest is corrupt
Post by: wetrat on March 13, 2003, 10:40:03 PM
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Originally posted by N8DOG
Well you Golly-geen moron, if you noticed I said I wasnt very high in rank, and that my best was 75th. As fer wuss pilot, hmmm big dog you are talkin behind a computer, If I had a lower rank than you in this game then it would mean I have less of a life than you. Go ahead and act big and bad and when ur grandkids ask about what you accomplished in your life you can tell them that you had a better rank than N8DOG in this stupid little sim called Aces High. That should really impress them. Hell, you might even want to put that on your resume.
Mooooooooooooooooo

LOL, f*cking hypocrite. And FYI, I've been ranked above 400 since my score whoring tour...
Title: Contest is corrupt
Post by: Horn on March 13, 2003, 10:54:54 PM
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Originally posted by wetrat
LOL, f*cking hypocrite. And FYI, I've been ranked above 400 since my score whoring tour...


Yeah, a tight, close-knit community that really cares. That's what this "contest" has fostered.... ;)

h
Title: Contest is corrupt
Post by: aztec on March 14, 2003, 04:51:13 AM
Is wetrat towd?