My Idea to control the "same ole planes" issue.

[SunKing]

Call it something like "Limited Resources Due to WarTime Efforts". In a 24 hour period each registered player is only alllowed 2 of each fighter plane. Continue to allow bombers, ground units and carrier planes unlimited use. If the player is shotdown, ditches his ride or bailsout he loose one of his planes for that 24 hour period. If he lands successfully he can continue to fly it. If the player uses up his 2 "lives" in a certain plane he must move to another plane.  If he were to use all his planes in a 24 hour period simply reset his plane set. To help control the 100s of perk points, make additional planes avalible but at a heafty perk cost. Soon perk points would be come valuable again and not taken for granted. After a week or two maybe (when perk points are used up) we would see a diverse set of planes in the air. Anyway thats my two cents. Sounds like it could be easly done, not to much to alter in the game.

[popeye]

Won't work...for same reason some players hate the RPS.  They pay their money, and want to have their favorite ride available all day, every day.

Guess variety isn't the "spice of life" to some people.    

[2Late4U]

While on the surface it sounds reasonable, any depth of thought will quickly reveal a few huge flaws in its use.  First of all, the country getting the stuffing beat out of it would quickly be relegated to some pretty pathetic rides, that just dont fit the situation.  This would tend to accelerate their losses, and very quickly make the game no fun for the losers.  I very rarely fly FW aircraft because I suck in them, and dont have time to learn 10-20 planes.  I fly a few regularly, and take up others when the situation calls for it, and/or just for a change.

If you want variety, all that needs to be done is provide options for each aircrafts stregths.  The new terrain has made it deadly for B&Z pilots to get caught too low, because now they dont have huge streathes of relatively flat terrain.  I've watched many a mustang/La7 getting nailed as they make a run for it only to realize they have to climb out of a vally...POOF goes that seperation they had.

The reason we dont see as much variety a possible is simple, there just isnt much place for 202/205 planes (for example) because their ammo is very weak compared to the other planes.  I tend to see a few planes much more than others...but hey....that just means I can learn to defend against them