Leaderboard confusio?
 

I noticed a thread about stat padding which doesn't make sense because the leaderboard doesn't make sense because you have people who play 1 game and are top and you have others who have played considerably more and are down at 100 or something and i presume they've won more than once.

can anyone explain how leaderboard works?

maybe just psn issue

The leaderboards show who is leading for different game types. So somebody may be 1st in Dogfight Sim, but that person maybe be 100th in Dogfight arcade.

Depends on what game type they play most of.

Thanks for response but not what i mean.

I play arcade and see myself bouncing around leaderboard i'm sure i've won more than most of the people above me on strike does unlocking certain planes in game types cost you those star points because some people can be above you on leaderboard and it doesn't seem like they've won even 50 strike games. i've won about 80.

sorry not trying to be petty i don't necessarily want to be top just want to understand

Strike is tricky for leaderboards. At the moment I'm not entirely sure how they're sorted. I think it's sorted according to star points. In strike you'll only get these with kills or destroying targets, and they don't have anything to do with wins. Sadly, you can win 100 games but still be last on the leaderboards if you don't actually destroy any target.

As for dogfight mode, it's all about the number of kills you get per game, as far as I can tell. If I average 5 kills a game, I'll have a lot more points than someone who averages 1 or two, even if they've played 30 or so more games.

...I think.

I know what the OP means - if you look at the leaderboards there doesn't seem to be any rhyme or reason to the sorting. Either the sorting doesn't work, it's using a strange function of the information it shows to sort, or sorting by some hidden value(s).

I have noticed also that if the teams are uneven at the start of the game, you will not recieve points toward the Leaderboards.