oooorrrr, you can stop caring about the score altogether. =)
Something that was recently taught to me, and now I have a craving to play AH like it was new to me.
NOW it's fun to try and up a Zero, 51B, IL-2, etc, and go Goon hunting.
Imagining (and sometimes receiving) the curses from the team you shot down the goon of is reward enough. =)
Strangely enough, I've been in GVs a bit lately, and I'm not a GV person.