dcr66 wrote:

I wish I could query the BM database!
I cannot do that, I only scan the "Games people play" page to check for new games and ended games.
So I have no way to tell *exactly* when a pilot died, as I can only check the end game results, not what happened every single turn.
So, as written in the rules, the pilot is alive until a game where he was killed ends.
Game number is not relevant.

Templars wrote:

Exactly.
I could use the game start date to do the processing, but there would be still "strange situations", actually even stranger because I receive game results in the "end date" order, so if I follow the "start date" I will often have to change "things in the past" and old statistics would often change (e.g. not all games started in January 1917 have finished, if we used "start date" we would still not be sure what is the result of Jan 17).
Using enddate is not perfect, but at least once a war month is complete, we know the result is final. Also, unless you have "Games not ended where you have been eliminated (and killed)", using enddate you know that it's the move you do *now* that matter for your pilot survival, while using startDate you would never know even which pilot you are using now.




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