Poor FrauB, 1 kill and 153 deaths :(

[Vinkman]

When I milkrun in my Seventeens I fly at 15k.  Come and get me.

Okey dokey ;- )

[Vinkman]

You can easily spot the perk farming by looking at the planes. In all arenas he took a ENY 40 plane and killed hundreds of ENY 5 planes, despite that being much more noticeable than the other way around. Gives massive perk points (I estimate Archie's perk gain at about 1000 perks in extremely short time), while having no special impact on score.

Keep in mind the average player is effectively earning in the range of 1-5 perks per hour of flight time. I'm currently running a perk survey and so far the average player has earned ~36 fighter perks in just over two months. I, certainly being alot above the average and spending immense amount of time playing this game, earned just over 1000. ArchieD earned more than 4K in a fraction of that time.

I've seen several solutions proposed. Do you think it should be fixed? And how would you propose doing it? 
I think a start would be to assign perks to the Arena you earned them in. So EW and MW perks are not useable in the LW and vice versa (someone esle posted that idea, I liked it). But, ArchieD earned thesein the MA. any potential fixes?

[Lusche]

WTF...


ArchieD did it again in the last 2 days. Early War. 52 Kills in a P-40C on FrauB's Hurricane II. 0 Deaths. Approximate 166 perks/h.

[Babalonian]

You can easily spot the perk farming by looking at the planes. In all arenas he took a ENY 40 plane and killed hundreds of ENY 5 planes, despite that being much more noticeable than the other way around. Gives massive perk points (I estimate Archie's perk gain at about 1000 perks in extremely short time), while having no special impact on score.

Keep in mind the average player is effectively earning in the range of 1-5 perks per hour of flight time. I'm currently running a perk survey and so far the average player has earned ~36 fighter perks in just over two months. I, certainly being alot above the average and spending immense amount of time playing this game, earned just over 1000. ArchieD earned more than 4K in a fraction of that time.

Woah... so then by my guestimation I'm "special"?   

[caldera]

WTF...


ArchieD did it again in the last 2 days. Early War. 52 Kills in a P-40C on FrauB's Hurricane II. 0 Deaths. Approximate 166 perks/h.

ArchieD's skillz are unstoppable!

[Masherbrum]

WTF...

ArchieD did it again in the last 2 days. Early War. 52 Kills in a P-40C on FrauB's Hurricane II. 0 Deaths. Approximate 166 perks/h.

You're shocked?   I'm not.   Pathetic to even mention him at this point.    The only thing you do is give the puke the attention he craves.    People game the game in countless ways that are accepted by all.   

[Ack-Ack]

They don't do it for perk farming...they do it for ranking.  That's why its laughable. 

The majority now do it to farm perks, it's rare now for someone to vulch a 2nd account for score/rank, especially when doing it for score/rank is much more visible.

ack-ack

[Zoney]

Maybe HTC should just let folks buy perks then.  1 cent per point, ger a thousand for 10 bucks, 10.00 minimum buy in, no refunds.

[Slade]

People game the game in countless ways that are accepted by all.

We don't accept them.  We simply have no choice.  It literally makes score meaningless but they crave the perception of what they are.  Approval seeking to a neurotic degree.

Ones who do these actions should wear a badge.  We have stars now.  Maybe a type of letter "L" for Loser.  It is amazingly easy to detect who the abusers are programmatically.  They should have to wear it for ALL to see in game. 

2 cents

[Ack-Ack]

AW had a similar problem, not with people farming perks but people farming points.  The way it was handled in AW was that if you shot down a pilot then you got full "points" for killing said pilot.  If within a few minutes you kill the same pilot again, you received less than full points, kill the same pilot again a few minutes later and you get even less points to the point that if you repeatedly kill the same pilot again you'll end up getting 0 points for killing the player.  A similar counter measure can be added to AH, so eventually the player ends up getting 0 perks for repeatedly vulching a 2nd account.

ack-ack

[Triton28]

AW had a similar problem, not with people farming perks but people farming points.  The way it was handled in AW was that if you shot down a pilot then you got full "points" for killing said pilot.  If within a few minutes you kill the same pilot again, you received less than full points, kill the same pilot again a few minutes later and you get even less points to the point that if you repeatedly kill the same pilot again you'll end up getting 0 points for killing the player.  A similar counter measure can be added to AH, so eventually the player ends up getting 0 perks for repeatedly vulching a 2nd account.

ack-ack

This needs to be in the wishlist section asap.

[BaldEagl]

WTF...


ArchieD did it again in the last 2 days. Early War. 52 Kills in a P-40C on FrauB's Hurricane II. 0 Deaths. Approximate 166 perks/h.

Well as long as HTC is going to turn a blind eye to this I hereby grant anyone willing to pay my subsciption to kill me relentlessly in any arena other then LWMA in your planes of choice.  

You don't even have to have a second account or a second computer.  I save money, you save money and we both win.

Send me a PM to arrange the details.

And BTW I'm totally serious.

[Babalonian]

AW had a similar problem, not with people farming perks but people farming points.  The way it was handled in AW was that if you shot down a pilot then you got full "points" for killing said pilot.  If within a few minutes you kill the same pilot again, you received less than full points, kill the same pilot again a few minutes later and you get even less points to the point that if you repeatedly kill the same pilot again you'll end up getting 0 points for killing the player.  A similar counter measure can be added to AH, so eventually the player ends up getting 0 perks for repeatedly vulching a 2nd account.

ack-ack

BRILLIANT!  Adding a stupidly-simple diminishing-return formula for repeated kills on the same player within a short period of time would totally do it!

Kill him 5 times no biggie, kill him 10 times repeatedly you only get 90% the points, kill him 30... something is up so now maybe it's only 50%, by the time the 45th or 50th kill is delivered within an hour, it's 0.01%!!!

[deadstikmac]

Bald.... Thats SOOOOO tempting.... Not for the topic in this forum... But to have FlightLine pay for one month and unleash the hounds of hell.... Im almost going to pay for a month and make you fly uber rides just for the sake of killing everything you see..... Soooo tempting sir.

[Changeup]

Maybe HTC should just let folks buy perks then.  1 cent per point, ger a thousand for 10 bucks, 10.00 minimum buy in, no refunds.

They are charged for them....15 bucks a month for the shade account