Why are scores so important to everyone?

[Zatoichi_Sanjuro]

What is the deal with the scoring system anyway?

I've seen end of TDM results where two players got an identical amount of kills/crashes and yet one of them has more points.

[Araqiel]

I'd imagine people care about scores because they're how you unlock more aircraft, and with no patch those requirements are for the most part prohibitively extensive.

[ontheborderland]

Originally Posted by Araqiel

I'd imagine people care about scores because they're how you unlock more aircraft, and with no patch those requirements are for the most part prohibitively extensive.

Good point, never thought of that.

I can understand competitiveness and I can understand wanting to be given recognition for your achievements, I just think that XBL (and maybe PS3?) places far too much focus on it. When someone screams at you over the mic that you've "stolen their kill" just because you took a quick shot at a plane that passed through your crosshairs, I think it's gone a bit far. Especially when it takes place during a TEAM battle. I think this game is at its best when people work as a team, and individual recognition isn't a part of it. Everyone doing what they can for the team makes for a much more enjoyable game IMO.

Same goes for most games, especially BF 1943.

[SEE]

Stealing kills will happen in the dogfight sessions wether on purpose or accidental. After all, every one is your enemy and all's fair in love and war! Doesn't bother me........

[Robotic Pope]

Originally Posted by SEE

Stealing kills will happen in the dogfight sessions wether on purpose or accidental. After all, every one is your enemy and all's fair in love and war! Doesn't bother me........

Ha ha I love that, when someone tries that on me when I'm in my Hurricane firing guns. They speed past me to get closer to the guy I'm shooting at, and fly straight into my storm of machine gun bullets.

[BeaverCompany01]

I personally would like to see the patch asap simply to encourage more players to go back online.

[FOZ_1983]

Originally Posted by Robotic Pope

Ha ha I love that, when someone tries that on me when I'm in my Hurricane firing guns. They speed past me to get closer to the guy I'm shooting at, and fly straight into my storm of machine gun bullets.

Gotta love them guns on her eh!

she's a beast in the right hands.

[Shadowcorp]

1- Assists. to get nothing for hammering a target and having one of your wingmen take the the kill is silly. I'm pretty sure pilots count assist just like they do kills
2- Friendly fire kills. the pilot killed by friendly fire should not lose a point.
3- some explanation of how the ranking work or the formula the leaderboard works by would be nice

But to address what you guys have been saying I would be lying if if said the score boards were not important to me. However theres only one that i really care about the others are just for fun, I'm competitive what can i say. When i have a bad game i stop playing and go play another game

[SEE]

Originally Posted by Zatoichi_Sanjuro

What is the deal with the scoring system anyway?

I've seen end of TDM results where two players got an identical amount of kills/crashes and yet one of them has more points.

Might be the 'efficiency' (accuracy so to speak which shows on ranked leaderboard). Can't think of anything else but have seen people with more crashes and same kills win. Either that or its random (or screwed up)!


EvangelusE (Gamertag)

[Robotic Pope]

Originally Posted by SEE

Might be the 'efficiency' (accuracy so to speak which shows on ranked leaderboard). Can't think of anything else but have seen people with more crashes and same kills win. Either that or its random (or screwed up)!


EvangelusE (Gamertag)

Yeah it's weird also how its only the PS3 leaderboards that are messed up. The xbox leaderboards (apart from how it sometimes forgets how to count, and that Team dogfights sometimes don't count for some reason) are pretty much ok.