Author Topic: AH RPS (Fun not Historical) (Read 4344 times)

funked · « **on:** January 19, 2001, 10:37:00 PM »

HTC should institute a Rolling Plane Set where planes become available each Tour on the following schedule:

Week 1: Seafire II, Spitfire V, Bf 109F-4, C.202, A6M5, Ju 88, TBM. Perk: Any Week 2 plane.

Week 2: Bf 109G-2, Fw 190A-5, C.205, F6F-5, B-26B, Lancaster. Perk: Any Week 3 plane.

Week 3: Spitfire IX, Typhoon, Bf 109G-6, Fw 190A-8, F4U-1D, P-38L, P-47D-25, La-5FN, B-17G. Perk: Any Week 4 plane.

Week 4 (to end of month): P-51D, Me 109G-10, F4U-1C, Yak-9U, N1K2-J, P-47D-30. Perk: Any plane.

Perks: Perk points will buy you any plane from the NEXT week.

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Kronos · « **Reply #1 on:** January 19, 2001, 10:53:00 PM »

it sounds great funked... cept id really like to see a p47 in week 2... maybe a razor back

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AKDejaVu · « **Reply #2 on:** January 19, 2001, 11:12:00 PM »

No RPS. Period.

AKDejaVu

easymo · « **Reply #3 on:** January 19, 2001, 11:33:00 PM »

Hey! What a great idea. More H2H players.

jihad · « **Reply #4 on:** January 20, 2001, 12:05:00 AM »

Good plan Funked,it gets my vote.

Sancho · « **Reply #5 on:** January 20, 2001, 01:21:00 AM »

I like RPS in general, but there's seriously way too few planes, especially the early and mid war variety. I would not want this... yet. Lets see what the planeset looks like in 6 months to a year and then revisit this idea.
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SOB · « **Reply #6 on:** January 20, 2001, 03:40:00 AM »

Sounds like a terrible idea to me...I'd probably fly anyway tho'

SOB

Nashwan · « **Reply #7 on:** January 20, 2001, 06:35:00 AM »

2 Quick points on your proposed planeset
1 The Spit IX and Tiffie belong in week 2, as they are older than all but 1 of the fighters you propose for week 2
2 Note how the US, Russians Germans and Japs all have week 4 planes, while Britain doesn't. In fact Britain only really has week 2 planes, unless the new Tempest is released for week 4

Ok just saw the "Fun not historical" part of the title, so my whines are misplaced here.

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Vermillion · « **Reply #8 on:** January 20, 2001, 08:08:00 AM »

Funked, while we agree on most things, on this issue I gotta say HELL NO!!!

Not only do I hate the implementation of an RPS, the squeaks, moans, and whines, it brings to the community and bbs are intolerable to me.

If I never have to hear "introduction dates", "ebb & flow", "parity", and "generations" again, it will be too soon.

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lazs · « **Reply #9 on:** January 20, 2001, 10:19:00 AM »

Well... you knew I was gonna say it...

RPS doesn't work... It's like socialism... You can try it a thousand times in a thousand different combinations and still you get the same result. People leave.

I love early war planes but realize that not many others do. forcing a die hard late war jock like a P51 guy to not have his ride except 1 week per tour is what will drive him away... He won't be happy flying my favorite rides and even if he is forced to he will complain... He will migrate to the next "fresh" sim with it's limited (and balanced) planeset... I KNOW you know this funked.

Plane set... There are at least half a dozen planes in every RPS ever concieved that will be contentious... They will be unbalancing and/or sources of vitriol... People will leave over em when they don't get their way...I KNOW u iknow this funked.

Late war... I don't like so... I don't fly?
Idiotic "perk" planes... admittedly they will be no worse in your idea than any other but perk is about the worst idea I have ever heard anyway so the improvement is negligable. Perk would allmost work in an arena where all pilot skill leveles were equal but it would still be unfair even then confering an advantage where none is desireable or desired.

There is however a simple workable solution that could be easily implemented that would allow for not only different plane sets but balance and parity amongst them... One arena and... Total freedom and choice. Variety, parity and action... New planes would easily be incorporated wether they be early war or late war uber planes without being at either a huge disadvantage or a huge advantage but....

Unfortunately we are wedded to the "perk" system. We will just have to let it run it's ugly course. It will of course bring nothing but animosity, unbalance and, I'm afraid, will be a club that vets can beat up newbies with to make sure that they will lose interest in the fastest possible time. for them there will be no variety or parity.

Wed the idiotic perk sytem to the equally idiotic RPS system and maybe.... Any new idea will be fun for a couple of weeks but these ones can doom a co. I know... not my affair. I'm just a little tired of moving on when the anal retentive start "fixing" games.

Again.... I am crying before I am hurt here and HT and co seem to be making some pretty good decisions so far but this perk thing....
lazs
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Hangtime · « **Reply #10 on:** January 20, 2001, 10:29:00 AM »

RPS sucks. It sucked in WB's... why on earth would it NOT suck here?

Frankly said; it's my thirty bucks.. when I wanna fly; I want my plane availible. The perk system seems to me like a borderline 'RPS' system already, we don't need any more restrictions on aircraft accesibility than that.

RPS comes here; HTC will lose my support and my money. It's the one thing that drove me outta Warbirds... it'll sure end my tour here too.

SCREW RPS!

Hang

funked · « **Reply #11 on:** January 20, 2001, 10:32:00 AM »

Yeah the current system works great. It's really entertaining fighting nothing but F4U-1C's. Spitfire V's and 202's really are competitive with 1945 planes.
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Sigh

RPS with score multipliers in WarBirds was IMHO the most entertaining period of that game. Too bad it was spoiled by the one-plane one-dimensional-skillset crybabies. Sure hope we get something here to break up the monotony and provide some variety in the arena.

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anRky · « **Reply #12 on:** January 20, 2001, 06:23:00 PM »

I got really sick of the mostly F4u arena in AW, and I'm not very happy with it here, either. It's not that I care what other people fly, but it just gets boring... "High dot...F4...he tries a headon, dives below me, and runs" "Another high dot...Another F4...he also tries a headon, dives below me, and runs" "Oh lookie...another high dot...wow, another F4...wonder what he's gonna do..."

So I think a RPS or perking the late war planes is a good idea, and I think it would give the arena *more* variety instead of less.

anRky
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mrfish · « **Reply #13 on:** January 20, 2001, 06:57:00 PM »

sounds good -

Creamo · « **Reply #14 on:** January 20, 2001, 07:22:00 PM »

Sounds GREAT.

I'd like to have incentive to fly all the planes, and find even now, trying a new ride can be quite fun.

Having a more even playing field would in the very least be Interesting.

For the guys that NEED their constant ride, I see the point of wanting it. Still, saying AH is fun in a Niki, but would be no fun at all in a Spit9 is retarded.

It might just make well rounded pilots, and squash that barrage of whining over a certain plane types, as the tards would actually have to try it out and see it has just as many weaknesses.

BTW, Funked, I thought you were banned, and Easymo, how can you have 1000+ posts playing that strategy-less HTH?