Ive been trying to earn points for fighters and bomber latley and I have noticed something..the work/point ratio is VERY un-even.
EXAMPLE, You want tempest..you can fly jabo or furball or do other FUN stuff and earn points to get yer ride.
Now say You want arado. all you can do is bomb... and what is bombing? well its about 90% nothing but climbing/cruising..which is BORING. Arado and tempest cost same, i dont want to compare them to eachother (apples and oranges) but at what kind of WORK it takes to buy them.
The thing is that in a fighter you are FIGHTING, you are doing what you want you are fighting other fighters or killing buffs or doing jabo, or escort or whatever yer hear disires and the time passes quickly..
In a bomber..you take off and wait and wait and wait, then you bomb target (takes about 3 min) and then head home..wait wait wait wait. and then land. ITS BORING you are doing NOTHING but starting at a screen for up to an hour at a time..you fly for 25-30 miniutes, you actually bomb for about 5 miniutes and then fly for another 25-40 min.
Another point is that your average fighter sortie takes about 5-15 miniutes, and your average bomber sortie takes about 35-60 miniutes, now depending on the planes the points will varey.
Another thing that makes it uneven is the fact that LOTS of times you spend your 25-30 min in yer bomber flying to target and get shot down..and unlessy your in the 17 90% time the fighter WILL shoot you down, guess what 0 points...with a fighter you would have at least had a chance..if youn taken off and flown 3 min in a fighter and encounter an enemy at least you have the chance to kill it..and if you dont, no big deal you had only been flyin 3 min, no big waste of time..just up again in yer right back in action.
So for a run down
A: You still have FUN getting fighter points, but trying to get bomber points is about as boring as watching paint dry 90% of the time.
B: You actually have a fighting chance in a fighter, while in a bomber your pretty much doomed if you meet a fighter.
C:it takes miniutes to earn fighter points, it takes the better part of an hour to earn bomber points. ASSUMING you dont get shot down before you can even drop wich is VERY commin.
D: with fighters points can often be attrained easy, killing goons, Vulching, strafing acks..etc, however in a bomber there is really only one way to get points and thats to fly you practically undefended bomber into enemy territory and sit over thier base and hope you can drop all your bombs before they kill you..not to mention FLAK.
Also for those who think you get lots of points for successful missions, its changed i recently flew what I would call the best Ju-88 mission I ever have, i flew to a large base, I killed 10 ammo/fuel bunkers, about 6 acks, and then to boot I made it all the way back to base and landed successfully. The mission took about 45 miniutes.
Thats a pretty rare mission to live through in the 88
Points Awarded: 7
considering thats a very EXCELLENT and RARE mission for the 88 and i made it back alive and landed AND that i had to fly the biggest POS bomber we have thats quite a ripoff.
BTW thats the most bomber perks ive gotten in 1 run this tour..
its rare to get 7 points in 1 sort in a fighter, but you can often get 3 or 4 3 point sorties in an hour EASY, and guees what, thats with a good fun to fly NON-POS fighter..
Please HTC, either up the amount of points for bomber sorties...or lower the cost of the arado.
