New Standoff Scoreboards Rank Wingnuts Globally (January 8, 2006)

Finally! This is a definite step towards the ultimate goal: full online dogfighting.

This is pretty cool we could have a tournement with Standoff.

If a PvP add-on was created, we could have Kilrathi Vs Confed Tournements.

Yep

it seems to be a hit with the crowd, I know Im hooked!

Me too, but I'm quite rusty, as you can see from my scores...

I keep getting beaned with dumbfires around wave 10 with most ships, and lose my afterburner or guns

Too bad we can't see more details about the scores, like what difficulty they were played on, the time spent, what wave was reached, how many quick kills, etc... I imagine most of that isn't known when the score is reported though.

Well, I could have arranged to send tons of data, but what would that tell you ? And how to organise that information ? We've been having a hard time figuring out how to make the data we have now readable and meaningfull.

Now, if you have suggestions for our next Ep4 upgrade, I am opened to it; but submit well thought ideas, along with details on how you'd show it. Just throwing information on a page isn't good enough. Also, keep in mind we only keep each player's best score for each ship, else the database could get huge.

Well, my thoughts were that it would be cool to be able to look at, for example, the top crossbow score and see exactly how it was achieved. Did he play on a low difficulty or a high difficulty, get a long ways into the waves, or just quick kill everything in sight. As far as display goes, adding those fields to the tables in the "Global rankings for <player>" is all I really would be interested to see. I don't know if there would be any interesting stats you could generate from that data or not.

Bah, I need to improve my Rapier skills.

I use the turrets a lot to drive away enemy ships, shoot down missiles, and get quick kills while my main guns are drained. Since I'm playing on nightmare, I also usually wind up having to shoot down 5-10 hs or df missiles with them too. Not like I'll be dodging anything much in a broadsword...

Anyone have a wierd wave come up while playing? I had one wave 5 versus 5 raptors, that was fun - I was in a epee or wraith I think, and I love fighting big slow targets.

What would be cool is to have extra medals WC1 style - so many quick kills in a row could earn you the silver star. Likewise we can see who bothers to eject in the sim by giving out bronze suns.
That or a system where players can challenge others on the board to duels finally sorting out whos the best hotdog out there, simple system where the pilots agree on a ship and mission and the next time they're in the sim in the agreed ships the data could be sent to a duel scores page instead.

Just my 2 cents worth.

EDIT: Whoops, kinda skipped over Chris's post there. Guess I second that idea then.

Impressive. I loved to play Bombers in my old days, but I donÄt know why. My enemys only Fire at short Distance....

Perhaps i should fly at ace in this case and make some kills more, but Nighmare is much more fun^^

Finally someone with some bomber skills. Didn't I preach time after time that the Crossbow isn't that bad a ship? <g>

I gotta go with you guys, ive been tryin to use my favorite ship forever ( broadsword) and cant even begin to touch your score, I think I might have to take it off of nightmare......

It will take some time, but I think it is possibil to rech these points, but I need luck, there are some Kilrathi and Confed ships which I can't beat in these Bombers.

I get so many Darts in my ship....that's not fair