Why are scores so important to everyone?

[InfiniteStates]

IMO most men, and especially gaming men, are competitive. There are scores for nearly every kind of game you can think of. And of all the thing begging for a score, it's thing being simulated in which they actually kept scores for real...

Don't get me wrong - I haven't checked the leaderboards for a long time, but I don't like to see myself on the bottom of the end of game scoreboard. I think the better you get at something, the more it matters.

But just a reality check: the patch does not entirely fix this issue. If you clip a spitfire's wings at 10m and he instantly spirals into the ground, it can still more often than not register as a crash not a kill...

P.S: +several to Winny's post.

[smacktooth]

I like to get credit if im the pilot that brought down another pilot. I do agree that even if you shot a plane into the ground it still feles good too even if no credit is given. Be patient the game update will be here when the time is right.

[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.

[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.

[winny]

Originally Posted by InfiniteStates

But just a reality check: the patch does not entirely fix this issue. If you clip a spitfire's wings at 10m and he instantly spirals into the ground, it can still more often than not register as a crash not a kill...

I was wondering.. I'm rubbish at sim because I keep going high, but, whilst I've been getting shot to bits I've noticed that given enough altitude you can keep a badly damaged plane in the air for quite a bit (I'm getting good at this, unfortunately). I'm starting to think that it's more to do with the fact that most kills are low to the ground and you've no time to try and get it back so it's still a "flyable" plane and the game is treating it like one?? Just a thought.

It's so bad I've started to drop my landing gear when my engines been wiped out.. just so it's more realistic for the guy behind..