Originally posted by Bronk
No but when a plane that was available it should become available .
Ohh and to Grits the times i fly in the AvA .I have usually jumped to the side with the smaller number and have to jump back to even it out. I don't really die when my cartoon plane is shot down so i don't care what I fly against.
I dont know why you say that, I've never said anything about how you fly. I'm not an Axis or Allied player either, my squad exists to switch sides so we can help keep things even. Because of that, I and the other members of my squad, probably get to see more clearly the good and bad side of setups in the AvA from a plane performance and balance of play point of view.
I am clearly not making myself understood, so I will try one more time.
The AvA has never said it was the Historic or nothing arena, we (Im only a player, not staff) have always had to fudge here and there to make things play well even if its not 100% accurate. The old PAC setups before the Ki84 are a good example, the Axis were SERIOUSLY overmatched, and as a result those setups, if not empty for that week, there were very very low numbers even when we gave the A6M5 in place of the A6M3. In the ETO there are fudges, like the FM2-Brewster sub (which I absolutely HATE just for the record) that is not a great sub historicly, but it does PLAY well. We used to have to use the 16+ boosted SpitV in '41 because its all we had, and the setups played TERRIBLE. The UberBoosted SpitV made it impossible to have a balanced '41-early '42 setup which was one of the best. There are many many others where a little give made things much more playable.
There are also several planes, not just the Spit XVI, that dont get regular use in setups because they throw playbalance off, like the C-hog, 262 and the Tempest. There aare also many times where we use Allied planes before that model was really in use because its all we have. The F4U-1 is used in late '43 even though its flight model is actually an F4U-1a from '44. The P-47D-11 is used in place of the P-47C. The F6F-5 is used in place of the F6F-3. Before we got the P-38J we used the L in its place. We also use the 109F-4 in place of earlier 109F's. We use the 110C for earlier versions of that model. We use the 190A-5 in place of the 190A-3. We make lots of concessions because of gaps in the planeset, but the key is, none of those have disasterous impacts on playability (fun).
The bottom line is, wether you like it or not, if a particular plane causes the arena to be empty because it makes for poor gameplay you are not going to see that plane very often. What good would it do to have a perfectly accurate AvA where nobody played because the setup sucked?
