Dissapointing leaderboards

[STINGERSIX78]

anybody know, how does the leaderboard works?
i win strike-games with a positive k/d + a lot of points, but i loose places in the leaderboard.

[Spitfire23]

I really dont think anyone fully understands how they work.

But if anyone thinks they can explain it, give it a go. I sure would like to know
Then again the leaderboards dont really mean all that much in my opinion

[STINGERSIX78]

im in the top10, sim/tdm.
but, cmon... 0,30 k/d. ^^
its a shame for me... ^^

[Spitfire23]

Originally Posted by STINGERSIX78

im in the top10, sim/tdm.
but, cmon... 0,30 k/d. ^^
its a shame for me... ^^

Ahhh dont worry about it, ive seen you fly and i can see that your good so thats all you need

[Robotic Pope]

Yeah sounds like the leaderboards are just plain broken for PS3. Again its strange how they work ok on 360.

[fritzwendel]

With so many great examples of stat tracking in other games, it is hard to fathom why a game released in 2009 has the online lobby of a game from 1999.




All I know is, I'm not on it.

I was going to ask this question myself. I do know this. The guys in the top 20 are pretty damn good. It seems the more I play, the higher I go, whether I'm any good or not. I am assumimg the guys here with the longest tenure, i.e. the longest playing time, are the leaders.

The more stats one builds up, the longer it takes to effectively change rank. For example, I have shot down 1500 aircraft and been shot down or crashed 1500 times. I'm batting .500. To change that, either kills or deaths must significantly increase compared to the other. That won't happen when a pilot has peaked, when he doesn't get any better. Just like sports. It's easy to go from 130 to 100 in golf, but damn hard to go from 99 to 75! The best pitchers and batters are at the top, as it should be.

So something else must be taken into account to enable us to competively move up. Accuracy, consistancy, number of battles, wins/losses. Things like that. I'm pretty certain the game measures accuracy. In practise, if I shoot down all the targets quickly and with little ammo, I get a perfect rating. If I use a lot of ammo, I get an average rating.

As I just said, though, those guys at the top are pretty damn good. If they stop playing though, they will begin to drop. This tells me kill/death ratio is significant (points at the end of a game, any game), number of battles is significant, accuracy is significant, and number of kills is significant (again points at the end of a game). Taken together to calculate rank.

Capturing airfields and killing ground targets are significant in strike and CAT, again leading to points at the end of the game.

Bottom line: play a lot to stay on top (this is obvious-they want you to play their game!), shoot straight, don't die, and get some kills, lots of kills. It will be tough for new players to reach the top 20 so long as the leaders keep playing. I'm at 33 in dogfight and most certainly am not close to the best. It is interesting to watch and see how high I can go. It is motivating me now as I have already gotten everything else. I'm sure others are too. Hence, we keep playing the game!!!!

[STINGERSIX78]

u have to take a look at the arcade strike leaderboard ^^
for every win, i loose 10 places...

[Zatoichi_Sanjuro]

I just think they're broken. The better I play the more my lvl drops.

I think there are a helluva lot of arcade players these days. No prob filling a lobby. Sim is picking up real well too. It's astounding how quickly points are accumulated in arcade. The last team dogfight I was in about 4 weeks ago, the score was 150 to 0!! No joke. One match. If players play all the time, and some definately do, they can rack up a massive amount of points in no time. Arcade leaderboard can probably swing wildly in just a few days.

Before I left arcade about 5 or 6 weeks ago, I was like 115 in dogfight (still a long way to go!). I checked it for the hell of it yesterday and I'm not on the board anymore! I looked up to about 500. Players can get good in arcade pretty quickly once they get the hang of it.

Also I think wins are least in rank. Points at the end of the match is what you want. Kill those targets!!! I was in a sim match today right before I left for work that I timed my strike with my 47 on the battleship in Sicily perfectly after a player with an Arado had already done the leg work for me and I walked off with 18 points!!!!!! That was REAL NICE!!!!!

I love those peeling Thunderbolts Sanjuro!!!!!!!!!!