Kills per sortie / hour

[Vraciu]

The lowest number of sorties for the fighter tour winners in the past 2 years was 36, flown by Bruv (no surprise here). Average was 99:

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If you look at the scores of these winners in detail, you can see that beating their scores in a mere 12 sorties would be a huge achievement.
As said before, only a very few pilots could pull that off.
When AH continues to lose pilots, there will be a time when sortie numbers as low as a dozen will appear on that chart, but that's still quite some distance away.

By the way, in tour 233 the median number of sorties in fighter mode per player actually using that mode was 27 - So tour winners do fly a lot more sorties than the average player.

Interesting info.

Maybe a minimum to rank would encourage more people to fly.   

Or maybe not.

Good stuff, Mr. Numbers!   

[DmonSlyr]

Interesting info.

Maybe a minimum to rank would encourage more people to fly.   

Or maybe not.

Good stuff, Mr. Numbers!   

You are forgetting that players with low sorties who have a lot of kills spend most of their time flying and racking up kills in one sortie instead of taking off over and over again. Like Lusche said, getting #1 or even a top 5 rank with very few sorties at the end of the month is very challenging.

IMHO, rank for "time played" does not measure skill. Points are litterally part of score for the fact that a player can't "game" the score in 2 sorties. It's good that players can score high without spending their entire life playing the game.

[ccvi]

flopping like dead fish.

Do dead fish still flop?

[ccvi]

It's very hard to have a high kills per time while also maintaining a high K/d ( think Rapier). It's a tough call but I see where you are coming from. It's one of the reason why I won't roll if there is a tiny dar and the bases are too far.

Is this the reason why half (*) of the people are sitting in tower instead of flying? So basically score makes people fly less. And score also prevents people from contributing to the war to a certain extend (waaah I'm bingo, can't stay for the next five minutes until the capture and land here. Or up where there is a risk in general, even if the risk is that there' just not enough or the wrong kind of enemies).

(*) slightly exaggerated, but not much.

[nrshida]

Revamping the score system 5+ years ago may have done something to bring in competitive gamers but there's no reason to change it in a dead game when they still can't make planes stop flopping like dead fish.

Bit dark old boy, is the game    as far as you're concerned then?

[nrshida]

Whoa whoa whoa, the score's way more complicated than I'm interested in. I'm gathering here playing for score is a question of shortcutting 'normal' gameplay. You just do this that or the other and bingo.

The pertinant question is: is it representative or a game unto itself?

[Shuffler]

I have been flying a bomber as a fighter for years.....

 

[Slade]

My score fun facts page is here.

Enjoy! 

[Vraciu]

You are forgetting that players with low sorties who have a lot of kills spend most of their time flying and racking up kills in one sortie instead of taking off over and over again. Like Lusche said, getting #1 or even a top 5 rank with very few sorties at the end of the month is very challenging.

IMHO, rank for "time played" does not measure skill. Points are litterally part of score for the fact that a player can't "game" the score in 2 sorties. It's good that players can score high without spending their entire life playing the game.

“Time played” has nothing to do with my suggestion. 

[Vraciu]

Lusche, if you’re still here...

In recent years, which player has the highest number of kills, sorties, and kill points?  How about all-time?

I’m curious how that stacks up compared to what we’ve been discussing.   

[Lusche]

I don't really know

I guess the player with all time most kills in anything is Dr7.

[Vraciu]

How would I dig this up?

I’m really curious what the all-time kills board looks like.   

[Lusche]

How would I dig this up?

Your only tools are the pilot stats and score pages. You'd need to fetch all the data from there.

[Lusche]

I guess the player with all time most kills in anything is Dr7.

Addendum: He's at 371K kills now. I don't think anyone else comes even close to that - For comparison, I played this game full time for ten years and 'only' have 104K kills 

[atlau]

Id like to see total kills, kill/hr, hit percentage emphasized over k/d. Those metrics would encourage more risk taking.

Or id like to see a score broken out by plane. So that people who fly worse/more challenging aircraft can see how they perform compared to other players in the same plane.

Sorry violator, i was gone the last 2 weeks:). In any case buff hunting in a 262 is the easiest way to get high ratios. Id gather flying a la7 for a tour would get similar easy numbers.