New Arena connection quality

[Vraciu]

I will run a calculation tomorrow 

That would be interesting to see.

 

Once you hit around 50,000 points it just isn't worth the time to fly home and land them at the expense of K/H.  Ditch it in your territory to preserve the K/D and forget landing them.   That's my rough take on it.   

[Lusche]

This is the kill points distribution for the recent tour 222:




Past 10K points the effort needed to get just a few ranks better is quickly rising exponentially.

[BTPommyB]

My Ping in Australia has increased from around 220 to above 260.
It does seem to have made a difference. I am getting some black pixels on water splashes from ship guns and other round impacts on land.
Also icons on the map have become quite "jerky"...updating more slowly.
Can't tell at this stage if the increased ping will affect air combat.
At 220 ping I have never noticed any delays in game-play or sound, which is remarkable given I am on the other side of the planet.

[Lusche]

Oh dear, I just noticed what thread I had hijacked with my silly stuff   

[1Cane]

When will test be over?
Test arena 83 ping.
Old melee 60.

Frame rate constant  59
Tanks 48
I don't mind every third plane being a 262 but the claw is too much for me.
We'll be back when test is over.

[haggerty]

Oh dear, I just noticed what thread I had hijacked with my silly stuff   

When flying a high ENY plane, do you get more kill points?  Or does 100 kills in a Spit 16 = 100 kills in a P40, assuming all kills were the same.

[Lusche]

When flying a high ENY plane, do you get more kill points?  Or does 100 kills in a Spit 16 = 100 kills in a P40, assuming all kills were the same.

No. Your plane's ENY (or your countrys current ENY) has no impact on score whatsoever.
The Kill Points are essentially points for physical damage inflicted on the enemy plane, the actuall kill itself is just worth one single point. And you don't even need to kill to get them. Severely damaging a bomber often gets you much more kill points than shooting down a fighter.
Only death modifiers (= how you endd your sortie) apply.

http://www.hitechcreations.com/features/scoring

[Vraciu]

This is the kill points distribution for the recent tour 222:

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Past 10K points the effort needed to get just a few ranks better is quickly rising exponentially.

In my original post I noted 10K as the point where it starts to become diminishing returns.  Dang good guess, again.

Total points become less important as you gain them.  The difference between 0 points and 10,000 is greater than from 25,000 to 50,000.

 

Oh dear, I just noticed what thread I had hijacked with my silly stuff   

That's a great graph, Lusche.    This is good stuff. 

[caldera]

When flying a high ENY plane, do you get more kill points?  Or does 100 kills in a Spit 16 = 100 kills in a P40, assuming all kills were the same.

It should be that way.  ENY/Kill should be figured into the scoring.  Would separate the Les Pauls from the Ru Pauls.

edit: as soon as the Yak XVI - err 3, gets adjusted to 8 ENY. 

[BTPommyB]

Just to advise that ping has increased from around 220 in Australia, which was not a problem, to 260+, which has resulted in performance issues.

[DamPhyN0]

See Rule #4

[AirFool]

My ping went from 49-51 to 80-100.  Haven't noticed it in game play, don't know if I could.

[save]

Shooting at stationary objects, like Cybro, also get favored with higher gunnery % ....

Kill points are not even close to enough.

K/H is far more important than points.  Points get you so far and then thousands more will do almost no good whatsoever.  Stop landing kills and ditch them instead.  You'll jump in the ranks.

It's a bizarre system.

[HawkerMKII]

See Rule #4

[Bruv119]

seems to be the new test server is located further East in the US, all Euro connections appear better off by 20-30ms,  the far east worse off because of going all the way across America.

Nature of the internet unfortunately.