it alone with all other 5 ENY planes should be perked
^^^ along with all other 5 ENY planes ^^^
Perk everything to some degree if its eny is 20 or lower.
etc....
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I disagree vehemently...
As it is now, there are enough perk planes to give players a gentle incentive to work towards perks, which is a good thing. Players who want perks tend to RTB sorties rather than simply augering when they are done, and there is an incentive to fly the less capable rides which dramatically increases the variety of aircraft you see in the arena.
And as it is now, only a relatively small portion of the higher performance equipment is perked - and much of it is fairly specialized at that - which means that a player can play the sim for a very long time without missing anything of substance if they never fly a perked ride at all. As a result, the current system gently encourages "good game play" without hampering gameplay in any meaningful way.
However, as you begin to perk the remainder of the higher performance aircraft, what would happen first is that players would naturally gravitate to the highest performance aircraft that isn't perked, which means that if you perk the LA, you'll see a higher proportion of XVI's, 51D's, and Niki's, and as you perk each of those, you'll see an increasingly higher percentage of whatever remains, all the while decreasing the variety of aircraft that are generally flown.
Until eventually what happens is even nastier - and is one of the very worst things about one of the competing sims I used to fly. Eventually, the new player has not only the "usual" hurdles to overcome in trying to compete in AH against veteran pilots (many of whom have decades of experience) but what's even worse, has to try to do so using the mediocre equipment which is all he can access, while the very best pilots (who've amassed loads of perks) get to use the very best.
This idea - to put it mildly - hoovers dirty pond water.
Adding minor changes - such as the ammo perks mentioned, or perking the 3 cannon LA, wouldn't necessarily be bad, as long as it wasn't overdone. But perk too much and you create a huge problem fixing a problem that doesn't exist, except generally in the minds of a few who don't fly the rides that they want to see others fly less (or not at all).
