in regard to airquake.... i don't care at all about score. my rank in aweful. somehow i still manage to usualy put up a good fight....though a beer here and a whiskey there, makes for an easier time. I think there are alot of people who could care less about where they score/rank, i think there are alot of people who just play for the fact they enjoy flying ww2 aircraft. I think there are many people who just simply enjoy flying with their squad....some of them otd, into as many foe's as possible. becuase i like to run fighter sweeps with my squad, and tool around on the deck, does that make me an airquaker....because i don't play the strat game? which just restarts every time, and is won by the team that has the most players? Is everyone who just wants to log on and fly with and against friends, just some psuedo-derogatory term because they don't care about a fake war, flying against fake countries, over the internet?
people play this game for many reasons. some like to score high, go get em tiger. some don't care at all. my only concern about rank is that it makes people not want to fight, or just to b'n'z, all day with no risk. some good pilots do this, some bad pilots do this. the only way you can tell who is good, and who is not is to fight them. it has always been the way, and there is no quantitive measure skill in this game. add gimics and what not all you want, there is a large portion of this community that will always fly for fun, and for friends, score be damned. If people don't understand that, then i guess they have neither.
