A squad mate of mine who used to fly AW saw me land 9 kills in a P-38L the other night. None were vulches, but I'm sure the majority were picks
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, and maybe I had to work for a couple of them. He mentioned that it was very rare for someone to get 9 kills in a sortie in AW, and that he sees it a lot in AH. I had to admit that the same seems true for WB. I can't remember getting 9 kills in a single sortie then unless I was vulching. 5 or 6 would have seemed like a very big pull.
I also remember that K/D ratios among the top pilots were much lower. I can remember the score pages that ranked everyone, and the top 20 or so for K/D were around 4:1 or 3:1 (vics, garn, drex, etc.). You had to have at least 20 sorties to be in the score pages. In AH right now my K/D is 6.59 and I am 54th in that category, and my flying is nothing special. Back then, I tried very hard to have a K/D ratio at 3:1, and most of the time couldn't get above ~2:1.
To me the difference has to be the $. I used to get billed ~$100/month, and sometimes more. Anyone who didn't learn quickly enough to achieve some kind of success would have dropped out
quickly for the privilege of paying by the hour to have their butt kicked all over the arena. Previous flight sim experience would be a requirement to have any hope of the money being worthwhile.
So, is it true? Are K/D ratios much higher in AH for a merely decent stick than they were in AW or WB? Should we go back to an hourly rate?
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