No offence, but your posts are some of the hardest to understand... maybe you need a couple more coffees before posting
May I interject here,
I too do not and may I dare say many others do not care about score much less anyone elses, but since the game is based upon score/rank it merits a better understanding of how it works and how it is being taken advantage of so that everyone is aware and may clear up some misunderstanding.
For example and as I stated before, you would expect that IF someone is ranked higher than you that they would be better than you and have more skill/ACM, however I have seen many instances of that not being completely and sometimes remotely true. Why?
Because this game has a high learning curve and most new players can't handle it so they go for the easier road, score board manipulation.
Is it because they DONT have that skill and are manipulating or gaming their score for the rank only? Most likely.
Definitely ! Its too hard to become a good fighter jock, takes too long to bomb and return, its hard to find GV's unless you see them spawn.
So what is the big secret? Are more doing it than will admit? Will it explain the timidness of many?
There is no secret, do a search on the boards and you will find many ways to game the scoreboard. I would say 50% of the players are doing it on purpose, and another 20% do it just to look respectable on the scoreboards. The other 30% couldn't care less about the scores. I think most of the "timidness" you see is due to lack of skill. I think most people who get a con on their tail have no idea what to do other than run or die. Their skill is the cherry pick or the shoot over someones shoulder in the gang maneuver, and thats about it for their "bag of tricks". If they get caught with a con on there tail they KNOW they are dead unless a friendly comes and "picks" them off, another reason they stay in their horde.
They may not consider what they are doing gamey, but others may and it raises many more questions than answers.
Anyone can PM me if your not comfortable discussing it out in the open because this obviously is a touchy subject, I just want to know can it be manipulated and how? Not one aces high nuclear and plutonium member team guy got a chart on that? No fancy display? Cant dig something out about that topic and "the lameness" behind it?
Does it explain that you really don't see many of these top guns around nearly as often as everyone else? Is it because they are out working their scores vice actually shooting someone down? I don't know, but you just don't see these elite ones around very often at best.
The community screams and cries about fairness and better gameplay, I am one that will throw the chips down and let them fall as they may, however I see that many don't and will use any flaw in this game to an advantage and if it is known, nothing is being done about it other than hiding it which leads to it either being accepted or ignored.
IMO
I raised these questions two days ago, is there anyone NOT padding their score remaining in this game that is knowledgeable enough from the snoopy team to answer them?
Here are 3 players scores, 2 who couldn't care less about score and 1 who does.
Like I said in an earlier post, if people just played the game you could see what type of player they are by their score. The scoreboard could be used as a true measuring stick. The first two pictures are players who in my opinion don't care much about their score. In saying that I mean they are NOT gaming the scoreboard. They just play the game and let the scores fall where they may.
The first is a fighter jock. He has a good k/d, and a good k/s. He fly's an average number of hours a month, and spends only a small percentage of time in other roles than he fighter.
The second is a "team player". He does what ever it takes to help his team, Again an average time in the game a month, but his time is spread out a bit more. His fighter time is most likely defense, and his attack is offense. His bomber time is more likely goon runs than buffs, and he is a target to flush out GVs for his mates
The third guy is after score. His time in game is way above normal, but its how its split that gives you pause. Fighter score is pretty good, but then you compare his time in the fighter with the time in attack, it looks like he's trying to save that score. Hes a pretty good spawn camper....whats that about 1 kill every 2 minutes?
Scores are easy to tweak, and many people do it because they can't earn them how they were "meant" to be earned. Of the top 25 people overall on the scoreboard I'd say only a half dozen are any good. Even I could beat most of the rest and I suck! Squads today teach new players how to tweak the scores in stead of how to do a split S or a high yo-yo. I'm not going to list the ways to tweak your score. Why make it any easier?
I believe that HTC could change the scoring to create better gameplay. Make it so that if your trying to pad your bombing score the only way to do it is to hit targets ABOVE a certain altitude. Make it so you MUST RTB. If you do the Lancstuka move you get 1% of points, you hit the same target from above 5k and RTB you get 100%. Make it worth it to do it the way it was intended. Make it so people would have to learn to do it the way it was intended. Changing these buff points like this would,
- Make better buff pilots
- buff pilots would learn to shot to defend themselves
- fighter pilots would cover buffs
- fighters would fight buffs and cover more creating more fights
- attacks would have more in the way of "plans" instead of just brute force
While changing score won't change the play of ALL players it would change the play of the MAJORITY of players and I think bring back better game play.
