Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-25370154-20141015222654/@comment-25467429-20141021031052

Loved this mode, but it's probably gonna be changed for the worse next time around. I like the revamped points system they used. All previous tournaments made relatively very minimal difference relative to winning so long as you run up your own score. To get rewarded for helping your team win is refreshing. I can't say if the balance is entitrely right or not, but that the winning team appreciably gets more points than the losing one is how things should be. I do appreciate the fact that fighters aren't can't fully compete on equal terms with the attackers, but I'm still having trouble seeing how to strike that balance better.

But in the end I managed to settle in to the top 1000 using a net total of only 8 units of stocked fuel. I finished at 886. And that's with having spent a lot of time experimenting with different loadouts and configurations with a number of low-leveled planes. I estimate I spent a third of the tournament trying out stuff like my Lv2 F-15E, or my Lv2 Su-34, or my Lv4 F-2. I don't know if there just weren't that many people participating this time or what, but the fact that it was so easy to reach the upper rankings suggests that they may try to do something to make things more difficult next time around. Again, that'll probably be by narrowing the gap between the points awarded to the winning team vs. the losing team.