Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-26016568-20150224030801/@comment-25467429-20150227224913

I'm with TheTLMguy; make people decide if they want to participate or not in a tournament. I've gone through so many turnamnets now where I'm just trying to fly/level up a plane for fun, and you have no choice but to get into matches with people going all-out tyring to snatch up points for a tournament, or where you're trying to take part in a tournament, but end up with a bunch of people only trying to complete challenges or something like that. That's why I think tournaments like the Scarface one, where you have to use certain planes, are a bit more balanced, becuase you basically acknowledge that you're participating (not perfect, but better). Heck, even sometimes I'll be participating in a tournament and tehn decide there's a new plane/set I'd like to try and want to field test it really quick. Taking a pure experiment into a tournament doesn't make a lot of sense. If you want to be passive and take a stab at ranking higher, just participate and see what happens. But for those who realize right away they don't want to participate or won't make a dent, then let them opt-out.

The current torunament is a good example. How many people are still in it right now who care much about anything below rank 200 for the X-02 Knight? I wanted to, but work, etc, has kept me from participating. Last I checked earlier in the day, rank 200 had about 90,000 pts. Which is roughly 80,000 more than me, meaning I'd need to burn around 72 units of fuel (24 missions with max forced sorite) just to catch up - not gonna happen. So, I planned on spending a bit of time this weekend upgrading some stuff. If I could, I'd opt out of the tournament and fly regular missions because i honestly don't care about the tournament now, and it's really unfair to those who do for me to now go and saturate the scoreboard, lop-side the matches, by flying a bunch of missions just to maximize money and test some plane sets.