[kozzm0]

There is no point trying to figure out the leaderboards.

The only mode that seemed to actually add up your stars as you earned them in matches was capture airfields. But recently I've been dropping levels even with great landings and lots of stars.

In strike when I unlocked the b17 it took only two b17-rampages and I jumped 8 levels.

In dogfight and team battle you can completely slaughter a higher-ranked opponent and lose levels, and lose to a lower-ranked opponent and gain levels. Gaining and losing levels seems to go in streaks too, levels go up for a while then they go down for a while.

I don't think accuracy has anything to do with it, there are people with bad accuracy right at the top and good accuracy at level 10.

I am convinced that the developers actually are monitoring the games on the servers, and probably gambling on them too, and if you don't beat the spread, they punish you by reducing a level, and if you beat the spread, they raise a level.