50 Spits_vs_109s pilots from February 2006

[Jumoschwanz]

Find your name! What pilots did you fly with or do you remember???

This is an old web-page I saved. Every month Spits_vs_109s, a hard-settings server, reset it's statistics pages to zero and everybody started anew getting their name on the page by joining the server and accumulating points.

These are certainly not the top-50 pilots as can be seen by their mostly dismal records as far as completing missions goes, but they are the top accumulators of points that month.

Notice that 4,152 virtual pilots had visited the server the previous month, that is over 100 new pilots trying it every 24 hours! We will never see that again... I also have a page saved from 2008, and that year it was down to 1600 pilots a month, still staggering figures compared to today.

When you flew on a hard settings server this well populated you had to be good to do well, as there were lots of people wanting to shoot you down in flames and you had no way of knowing where they were, and no idea what that dot in the distance would turn into unless you were very well practiced on tactics and plane-ID.

[Jumoschwanz]

If anyone can figure out the crazy system they were using to rank pilots by all means let us know. Notice some pilots that have better rates of mission completion and higher scores are ranked lower because of a lack of "medals".

GunRunner has to be some sort of all-time record holder, flying ten hours a day this month (sad) on the server and dying in every single one of 1,229 missions, amazing.

I always thought that virtual combat pilots should be ranked by whoever completed the most missions WHILE scoring. That would eliminate points as a factor, which really don't mean anything. It is just as hard to do ground-pounding and get home as it is to engage in aerial combat for sure, but only if you are talking about a busy server where those doing ground attack are at risk of being shot down on every mission.
I clearly remember pilots that jumped onto servers during hours when they were unpopulated to run up large ground-attack scores.

It is pretty easy to figure out that the pilots with lower points got most of them in aerial combat, and those with higher points mostly were ground-pounders. I have my personal records from this month saved, and it said I shot down 66 enemy aircraft and sank 115 boats. I never did much ground-attack, but for some reason I liked to sink ships and boats and take out AAA installations. Although I usually always flew fighters, I often took a bomb along with me to drop on targets of opportunity.

Although I have had occasional missions where I would down multiple fighters, I found that usually I would get one or maybe two then return home. Flying lone-wolf with no squad, wingman or coms things had to be done a certain way. If you hung out in one area too long shooting people down that belonged to squads with multiple members on coms, they eventually got their act together and came looking for you in strength. So it was best to get in a good position on the map, bounce one or two enemy aircraft and send them down in flames, then head back home before the cavalry arrived.