Old_Canuck
Dec-09-2011, 11:26
Apologies if this thread is redundant but there's an interesting suggestion in another thread regarding stats being visible only to the relevant player and it got me thinking. On Warclouds I used to enter mainly to have fun but after discovering stats the slide to becoming a stat whore was inevitable. Not having the skills to stay in the top kills rating the focus shifted to survival stats :laugh1 but that's besides the point. The fun diminished .. that's the point.
Most of the players are launching ATAG to join up with buddies on comms. and have some fun but a minority are using the game/stats primarily to bolster their egos at the expense of fair play (which is fun for them but annoying to the rest). Fact is they are in the minority so why not show a public top ten rating on the stats and have the rest of the stats for relevant player's eyes only. That way the top guns can still enjoy fighting their way into the top ten and new pilots can still have the goal of working their way up if they so desire. It might change the psychology of the online play and it might not.
It's just a suggestion. ATAG is already running a great server the way it's going now IMHO :dthumb:
Most of the players are launching ATAG to join up with buddies on comms. and have some fun but a minority are using the game/stats primarily to bolster their egos at the expense of fair play (which is fun for them but annoying to the rest). Fact is they are in the minority so why not show a public top ten rating on the stats and have the rest of the stats for relevant player's eyes only. That way the top guns can still enjoy fighting their way into the top ten and new pilots can still have the goal of working their way up if they so desire. It might change the psychology of the online play and it might not.
It's just a suggestion. ATAG is already running a great server the way it's going now IMHO :dthumb: