Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-25467429-20141203204130/@comment-25467429-20141204212119

Did one B7R mission this morning (6 player) where the top score was about 50,000, everyone else was around the 20,000 - 30,000 range. But, if I'm not mistaken, reward money and tournament points are done relative to the player's past scores on a given map, so even if top scores are maxing near 50,000, it shouldn't be translating to a significantly worse take at the end relative to other maps if you're still consistent or better than your own average and/or MVP. Some money awarded by bonuses will be missed since some bonuses aren't going to be available (anything to do with destoying gorund targets), thus a lower bonus score, so that may be another source in score descrepancy.

The ticket system seems to be their answer to the question of how to get past or challenge items that some might have missed on. It's a clever angle, but will have to see how they handle the awarding of tickets over time. It will be interesting to see if they add something like Garuda or Yellow-13 to the ticket system, and see how many tickets it would cost. The stocked fuel option doesn't look too bad either.

The F/A-18 special plane - Red Devils - looks like it's got very good initial stats, and plenty of upgrade slots to boot.

Also, I've been having a slight issue of the connection to the host dropping this morning. Happened 3 or 4 times that early to midway through a mission the connection to the host dropped. I wasn't penalized or anything like that it doesn't seem, but because of that I missed my early chances to try the new Tokyo mission. Visually the map looks gorgeous at dusk.