Originally posted by Alky
I don't really understand the fuss about "landing kills". From what I gather it would give you perk points, and these are used for what, to allow you to fly planes you're unfamiliar with?
I'm not trying to be a smart prettythang, I'm serious. Is there any other reason to land a kill, better rank than just ditching?
Excellent question, Alky.
You can use perk points to purchase especially snappy planes. Tempest, Spit 14, Ta152, Me163 and Me262, F4UC (the "Chog") are the ones that come to mind. Note that you can fly the plane until you crash it (or someone makes you crash it), and then you lose the perk points.
I don't think that perk points have anything to do with your rank, if rank is an important aspect of your AH2 experience. But landing kills does, I think; you get more points if you land the kills than if you crash somewhere on the way home. This is also the reason why some people bail out of their plummeting airplanes...they retain more points that way than if they die (but less than if they land the kills).
Hopefully someone else will supplement and/or correct this.
- oldman (who, in a brief venture into the MA, saw someone proclaim that he didn't want to fight 1 v 1 in the MA because he was "watching his rank," but was happy to fight in the DA. Heh. They come in all shapes and sizes.)