When ENY gets you DOWN, what do you UP?

[stodd]

Nothing, I dont know about all you super skilled pilots but I personally just sit in the tower and cry about it.

[canacka]

Talk about ENY....

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Hahaha!  And a goon's eny is 40!

[Chalenge]

Nothing, I dont know about all you super skilled pilots but I personally just sit in the tower and cry about it.

Quick... flush the toilet or something your stuck in a time warp! 

[Krusty]

Was that a "Day of the Tentacle" reference? 

I don't think folks branch out enough in this game. You get people that say "I only fly the P-51D and nothing else!" and similar variations of fill-in-the-blank. I just wish ENY kicked in sooner than it does now. If people fly planes they don't normally they might accidentally have some fun.

Somebody mentioned the P-40E earlier... It's an interesting plane, historically speaking. I love the thing in real life. In this game it's rather sub-par most of the time, but sometimes you just need an excuse to take a historically interesting ride up and not worry about your comfort zone or surviving the sortie. It's a fact you'll never see the top 10 ranked players get most of their kills in one, but it doesn't mean you shouldn't learn to fly it once in a while.


Hell, you never know if FSO, scenarios, snapshots, duels, KOTHs, anything, might call for you to know -- just a little -- how to fly it.

[boomerlu]

My favorite rides are all German. I'm usually not affected by this.

BUT if ENY gets high enough... I just slide down the scale of German planes. Can't up a K4 or a D9? A5, G6, G2, F4 all suit me well.

And to address Rapier, no this is not about skill. At one point I thought "omg, I would own if I could get into a Spixteen..."

Then JG11 had costume night on Halloween. I upped a Spixteen all excited. LOL I make TERRIBLE decisions in that plane (as well as most Allied rides). I don't think I even got a kill in the Spit16. Ever since that night, I've been quite relieved of my false pretenses that I'm better because my planes are higher ENY. It's really just taste, very hard to describe.

[phatzo]

My favorite rides are all German. I'm usually not affected by this.

BUT if ENY gets high enough... I just slide down the scale of German planes. Can't up a K4 or a D9? A5, G6, G2, F4 all suit me well.

And to address Rapier, no this is not about skill. At one point I thought "omg, I would own if I could get into a Spixteen..."

Then JG11 had costume night on Halloween. I upped a Spixteen all excited. LOL I make TERRIBLE decisions in that plane (as well as most Allied rides). I don't think I even got a kill in the Spit16. Ever since that night, I've been quite relieved of my false pretenses that I'm better because my planes are higher ENY. It's really just taste, very hard to describe.

I tend to have a real crappy time in the 16 as well

[OOZ662]

Il-2. Actually, the only thing I've been stopped from flying in the past month or two was when I was using an AR-234 to keep the knit coast blind and one of our megaskwads logged out.

EDIT:

Envy never gets me down.

I don't know why, but it REALLY bothers me when somebody calls it that. I feel like punching 1carbine in the face every time he does.

[klingan]

I just keep on flying my Ki61.

[usvi]

Nothing, I dont know about all you super skilled pilots but I personally just sit in the tower and cry about it.

[RTHolmes]

There is something wonky in the code is failing. As such, it only works to tick people off, which I doubt is the desired outcome. If it is a reliable and impartial system it should work evenly. It doesn't and acts to keep a set of players, unintentionally, in the hole.

I havent seen anything to suggest this, people do get confused between relative and absolute numbers when looking at ENY tho.

I fly knits in LW and cant honestly remember the last time we had an ENY restriction, although things would have to be pretty bad to stop me flying usual rides Spit IX or D25. With ENY>20 it doesnt really matter what you're flying since you have such a massive numbers advantage...

[Bruv119]

Ki 84 , Spit 9, 109's (shock /horror),  ki61,  LA5.   

If things are really tight 109G2 at 30+  is best bang for buck.   All of these planes are deadly in the right hands so ENY only effects my toolshedding abilities.

[grizz441]

Nothing, I dont know about all you super skilled pilots but I personally just sit in the tower and cry about it.

Nothing, I dont know about all you super skilled pilots but I personally just sit in the tower and cry about it.

Nothing, I dont know about all you super skilled pilots but I personally just sit in the tower and cry about it.

[LYNX]

   Back in the day I used KI61 as answer to my favorite ride being ENY grounded.  It carries bombs, long fuel endurance and got nasty arsed cannon.  After a while I just used it even if ENY wasn't in effect.  It's a great plane as is the Yak 9U, P4711, Mossie, F4u and just for fun C202 and D3a.  Those last 2 are mad turners but weak gunned so set close convergence and get it close when firing or you'll end up with loads of assists 

Again  ENY isn't really a problem unless your a strat player.  ENY will effect what ORDNANCE you can carry.  Example of what I mean.... F6f can knock out a VH in 1 pass but a TBM can't.... especially if there's plenty of fighters about.  So when ENY'ed down to carrying 1 bomb on a F4 you'll need to coordinate with others or have a squaddie / friendly bomber take out the VH.   

ENY = ORDNANCE = Cooperation.

As for ENY being unfair and favouring 1 side more than another.....it's complete bollocks.  ENY side balance calculation is fixed on player percentage.  I have no idea what formula HTC uses.

176 Bishops
150 Knights
= 85% knights to Bishop numbers.... bishopes won't suffer much if any ENY with 26 more. players.

55 Knights
37 Bishops
=67%   Bishops to Knights numbers.... knights will get ENY with 18 more players.

I really shouldn't need to explain this other than to say when one side is vastly outnumbering another, percentage wise, expect ENY.

[grizz441]

I always switch sides when the sides get unbalanced so the better question for me is, what plane do I up to perk farm for jets.  109G6, C205, 109G14 are my favs.

[Latrobe]

Yak is always fun. The T model can even kill tanks if need be! I will always have a Spitfire to fly though, I always love killing everyone while in a Spit 1 !!