I'm wondering about time spent in fighter vs total time in game for Tour overall winners?
I have to thank you for that question, because it turns out to have an interesting answer:
It's very apparent that the
overall tour winners very the very most part
did fly much less in fighter mode than in attack mode, seemingly "protecting" their fighter scores. On the other hand, as we have seen in my earlier posts, it does not make much sense, you can get a very good fighter rank without doing it that way.
But what's the explanation then? Two things come to my mind:
First, unlike the fighter tour winners I posted earlier, it's about much less players - almost all the tour wins with very little fighter mode flying are one and the same person. So it could be just his personal preference, and he possibly could have done it differently, with more fighter vs attack sorties as well.
And second, the
attack mode has much more sub-categories to score in, which requires more 'work' and because of this possibly just more time than in fighter mode. I did a quick analysis of the highly ranked attack mode pilots of tour 153, just like I did with fighter pilots in my first posts. The results support it: The better ranked attack pilots averagely spend much more time in attack than in fighter mode.
So flying little time in fighter mode and much time in attack mode could not be for 'protecting' the fighter score, but for working on the attack score. But then we have to ask how many do that knowingly. I for one wasn't aware of this
