Oh, and virtually no one is flying for rank btw. Number 1, 2, and 3 are out of nearly everyone's reach, so what's the point? We fly for the joy of killing and if we skeddadle it is to deny the other bastage that joy.
2 or 3 is doable, but its hard to beat the motived dweeb of the month
For myself...yep. Also don't care if others are different and DO care about their stats and rank.
I guess I somewhat disagree here. By causing kills to affect the weight of all of the other stats (arbitrary example: like a diminishing-returns multiplier), pilots would be penalized for avoiding fights (while still being penalized for losing a plane / dying). Pilot A, who flies at 25k for twelve hours of the tour and gets 75 kills and 10 deaths would have a lower weight compared to pilot B, who had 1000 kills and 100 deaths.With the current system, pilot A would win the ranking, all things being equal. With a weighted system, you could take into account that pilot A only has 7.5% of the kills pilot B has, and weight them appropriately.With the current system, if pilot B was #1 for kills and pilot A was #2 for kills, all of pilot B's additional kills over 76 are useless. In fact, his extended sortie times can inherently hurt his ranking. While this is obviously an exaggeration of what happens, the fact that it can happen this way, to me, illustrates a flaw in the scoring system.I just don't see how the glory of the fighter pilot, which celebrates raw numbers of kills, not getting shot down, and taking on superior numbers is anywhere near reflected in the current system of "Kill quickly, fly safe, fly less, and use less ammo."Just my .02
I think you meant couldn't care less.
Really? Getting high rank on the kill points alone involves more flying time than I would put in even if I was locked in solitary confinement with nothing but bread, water, and my AHII rig.MOtivated? Is there a betting pool? Does #1 get a bottle of his favorite whiskey?
