What does "unbalancing" mean?

[Anaxogoras]

What does "unbalancing" mean?  That's my question.  Is there an agreed upon definition?  It doesn't seem that way.  Yet the word is always thrown out when we discuss which aircraft should be perked.  So, let's hear it from the experts.   Enlighten me.

[Max]

It's really pretty simple. HTC decides which aircraft are perked and by how much.

[Anaxogoras]

It's really pretty simple. HTC decides which aircraft are perked and by how much.

You answered a different question, not mine.

[SD67]

When I have a dozen Bourbon and Cokes then switch to beers, THATS unbalancing...

[BnZ]

It means any aircraft that is not already perked will never be perked, because any aircraft good enough to be considered worthy of perking already has a large base who wants to see it kept free.

[thndregg]

What does "unbalancing" mean?

An example would be taking the training wheels off of the Wirblewind.

[The Fugitive]

When it comes to perks, I think it means when a plane represents a vast majority in the number of kills thereby becoming the "plane of choice" for the majority of the arena, that plane has unbalanced the arena and is then perked. The spit16 while a pretty darn good plane, dose NOT have a vase majority of kills each month. It may have the most, but not by much which means other planes still are competing with it. So it doesn't "unbalance" the arena.

[Anaxogoras]

When it comes to perks, I think it means when a plane represents a vast majority in the number of kills thereby becoming the "plane of choice" for the majority of the arena, that plane has unbalanced the arena and is then perked. The spit16 while a pretty darn good plane, dose NOT have a vase majority of kills each month. It may have the most, but not by much which means other planes still are competing with it. So it doesn't "unbalance" the arena.

So your answer is scoring excessively more kills than other nonperked aircraft?

[Oldman731]

What does "unbalancing" mean?  That's my question.  Is there an agreed upon definition?  It doesn't seem that way.  Yet the word is always thrown out when we discuss which aircraft should be perked.  So, let's hear it from the experts.   Enlighten me.

Unless I've been misled, the purpose of perk points is to limit the use of planes which saw limited service, not to compensate for superior performance.

- oldman

[Lusche]

Unless I've been misled, the purpose of perk points is to limit the use of planes which saw limited service, not to compensate for superior performance.

- oldman

In that case, HTC would never had unperked the TA 152

[Anaxogoras]

Like an La-7 with 3x20mm cannon?  Or the formerly perked 152?

[BnZ]

Unless I've been misled, the purpose of perk points is to limit the use of planes which saw limited service, not to compensate for superior performance.

- oldman

By that standard, AHII should GIVE you perks for flying sorties in 109 G-6s.

[E25280]

In that case, HTC would never had unperked the TA 152

Well, you have to admit there is a difference between "limiting the use" and "quashing it's use completely."

[Patches1]

"Unbalancing" means to unleash the Dogs of War!

Let loose those F4U-1Cs...no perks!

Let loose those F4U-4s.....no perks!

Just cut loose these two Dogs of War and find out what "unbalancing" means.

[E25280]

What does "unbalancing" mean?  That's my question.  Is there an agreed upon definition?  It doesn't seem that way.  Yet the word is always thrown out when we discuss which aircraft should be perked.  So, let's hear it from the experts.   Enlighten me.

Example of balanced:

Aircraft   "usage"
P-51D   8.46%
Spit XVI   7.44%
N1K2   7.11%
F6F-5   4.99%
SeaFire   4.53%
F4U-1D   4.42%
La-7   3.79%
A6M5b   3.46%
Typh IB   3.44%
P-38L   3.12%

An example of unbalanced (hypothetical)

Aircraft   "usage"
P-51D   48.46%
Spit XVI   5.44%
N1K2   4.11%
F6F-5   2.99%
SeaFire   2.53%
F4U-1D   2.42%
La-7   1.79%
A6M5b   1.46%
Typh IB   1.44%
P-38L   1.12%

If the numbers got to be like this, the Pony would be slapped with a perk.  But the numbers don't look like this, so there is no aircraft that has clear dominance.