Chog - Not to be perked

[fscott]

HT came online today and stated that the Chog will not be perked. Good idea and I agree. We will need something to HO those perk dweebs.

Also, he said he was considering that a disco/lockup/dump will cost you 1/2 of your perk ride points if it happens while in your perk. Also said he may just leave it as is and you will lose all your points. Guess there's no way around it.

Question: anyone know if you lose your perk points by getting KILLED or just by getting shot down in your perk? When you die do u lose all your points it cost to attain the perk?

fscott

[Nash]

Yaaaay!!!

HTC didn't buckle to the whining masses. Lock up yer daughters - Big Blue Lives!

Muahah.  

[CavemanJ]

If you die in your perk kite you loose all points for it.  That means crash, ditch, or bail out (all 3 are counted as deaths where scoring is concerned).  The ditching counting as a death is why I'd like to see .esquealing anywhere inside the base perimeter count as a landing.  If you get shot up and nurse the kite back to base but one of your mains collapses as you're braking to a stop you end up ground looped off into the dirt.  Instant ditch(death), and if you're in a perk the loss of your kite and points, even if you survive to walk away from the landing (.ef).

I understand the delimma about discos/lockups.  People would realize they're about to get thier tulips shot off and reset thier modems in an attempt to save thier score/kite.  I suspect some already do (seen alot of suspicious smoke trails warping).  But if the host takes a crap and dumps us out, like what happened with Savvis last week, I dinnae think that should cost you your points.  But how to tell the difference?  That's the problem.

Maybe costing half the points on a disco/lockup would be the best compromise.  I dinnae think too many people would cause an intentional disco (or get into a situation where they'd think about if they're flying a perk kite for that matter), and some folks can't fly as much as others and takes them longer to save up points.

[SFRT - Frenchy]

Chog not perked? ROFL.

[fscott]

Yeah I agree, anyone who is falling to earth in a ball of flames is gonna pull the plug on their modem so that they can keep half of their points instead of losing all of them.  I think HT could probably put together some type of system where points will be rewarded back to everyone who was flying a perk just before a router crash. Don't think that would be hard to do?

fscott

[-towd_]

you have got to be kidding . back to the same old super hog.

[Vulcan]

Chog not perked? Sounds OK to me, they're not that much of an issue anymore.

I'd like to see the Colonial Viper/N1ki perked with its inertialess drive system.

(Yes I had one of "those" n1ki experiences in the weekend, the one where u BNZ a n1ki with no E, he pulls a hard 360 and chases you in the zoom - catching you).

[F4UDOA]

WTG HT,

BTW Natedog slipped in his post about the La5 artwork and mentioned the La7. Meaning we will be getting an La7.  

So if the C-hog is on everyones mind now just wait until we have an arena full of La7's and Tempest. I don't think anyone will care about the C-hog. And oh yeah, the F4U-4.

[SFRT - Frenchy]

Stop that Vulcan, 1/5 of your deaths are due to F4UC's.

Maybe because you didn't really encountered a lot of them.

I'm borred of fighting F4C's. I got 41 of them of my little 330 kills. I got killed by a F4C 2 times more than my second "highest killer"  

My bomber leader, barely able to dogfight likes it a lot because he can achieve kills in it, even 2/3 a run sometimes  

[fscott]

It's wrong to assume that there will be an arena full of perks. Hitech also stated that perks will cost anywhere from 50 to 2000 points.  And don't assume that the $50 perks will be fighters either, could be bombers,or tanks...etc.  I currently have 900+ points since this tour started. If there was a tempest availbale right now for $900, I may take it up for a spin at 40k but I won't be flying it to often.

fscott

[AKSeaWulfe]

Tour12:
AKSWulfe has 40 kills and has been killed 10 times against the F4U-1C.

AKSWulfe has 15 kills and has been killed 2 times in the fw190A-5 against the F4U-1C.

AKSWulfe has 17 kills and has been killed 3 times against the F4U-1D.

AKSWulfe has 6 kills and has been killed 0 times in the fw190A-5 against the F4U-1D.


I can usually be found low and slow mixed up with these bad boys on the deck. They really aren't much a threat, most the time I run into one it's some poor mistaken fella who thought that all this talk of their uberness means they are actually uber... but they aren't. I want the -1C to stay in the arena, I need something to pad my score! <G>
-SW

[Pyro]

I asked HT about this and he stated that he said he didn't know whether it would be perked or not.  The answer that he gives me certainly makes sense but your quote does not.  Exactly what was said?  As far as values on anything, that remains to be seen and is something that will fluctuate.  Furthermore, bomber, fighter, and vehicle perk points are on separate scales and don't have any relationship to each other.



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Doug "Pyro" Balmos
HiTech Creations

[hazed-]

with the new expanded stats you can check the F4c's total dominance of the arena...I for 1 am sick of it. PERK the dweeb kite!

hazed

[Torgo]

I don't see any reason why the La-7 would be a perk plane. It's pretty obvious that a lot of people don't know a heck of a lot about it.

It's not some ultra-late war uberplane that turned up in small numbers in 1945. It's a standard mid-1944 aircraft of similar overall competitiveness (I feel, though we won't know until it turns up) as the P-51D, Niki, etc.

And the La-7 isn't to the La-5FN what the Tempest is to the Typhoon.

For one thing, the La-7 HAS THE SAME ENGINE as the La-5FN.

Don't get me wrong, the La-7 will be a much more capable arena aircraft than the La-5FN, largely due to the extra gun, but it's an incremental evolution of the La-5FN, not a revolution in the design series.

They took an La-5FN and squeezed out 10-15 mph or so more speed with aerodynamic improvements and slapped an extra gun on. I don't see that making the La-5FN we currently have a perkable uberplane.

The skies of AH aren't exactly filled with La-5FNs now, and I don't think you'll see any more La-7s than you see P-51Ds or Nikis or DHogs or Spit IXs now.

[GRUNHERZ]

La7 will be much more popular than LA5, dont underestimate the addition of X# cannon in AH- if u dont belive me take a look at difference between 2 models of a certain US fighter and see fer urself.