Research of the Spit 16

[Plazus]

This thread is turning more into a "Spit16 Victim Relief Clinic". There is no need to remove the plane from the game, since it already meets the requirements for inclusion to the game. Just give the plane a light perk (3-4) and be done with it.

[Lusche]

Just give the plane a light perk (3-4) and be done with it.

There is absolutely no reason to perk any Spit we currently have in game.

[Plazus]

Please explain.

[Lusche]

Please explain.

The perk system is a way for HTC to introduce some interesting but otherwise unbalancing planes on a limited basis but the benefits go deeper than that.  Perk planes (and vehicles) would be things like Me 262s, Ta 152s, Tempests, B-29s, Ar 234s, Tiger IIs, etc.  These are interesting rides but would be very unbalancing if they were available on an unlimited basis.  So there won't be unlimited availability but they'll be available as bonuses or perks every so often.

No Spit is unbalancing the LW MA in any way.  Notably the 14 is not very successful compared to other perked planes, and is for a good reason rarely used even though it's much cheaper than other perk rides.

There is no reason to limit it's use more than the P-51,La-7 etc...

[vafiii]

Number one overall performance plane has to be the Spitfire. I say remove the P-51D as it can't do anything except dive and run. P-51 pilots are the dweebs, not the Spitfire. "High Pony" is all I ever hear. Get in the fight already!

[lyric1]

No such thing as a dweeb ride in the game. The right tool for the right job & what you feel most comfortable in.

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No such thing as a dweeb ride in the game. The right tool for the right job & what you feel most comfortable in.

 


man I so wish this was truth........but yet it IS the truth, I read so often on 200 how people are calling particular planes "dweeb rides"  I try to always say there are no "dweeb" planes just "dweeby" pie-lits, 

what is more dweeby......to attack a lone con with 10 or more nme....or attacking a horde in a 16, La7,hurri2C,K-4,38, ECT  ECT.

the PLANES are just tools, they do nothing on there own, the way some of you guys go on about the 16 is just hilarious, act like you jump into it and it goes out and kills all on its own.

the pilot puts the "dweeb" into effect NOT the plane.

[bustr]

Whats sad about this thread is it's an excellent technology thread being used by a digruntled player to poorly disguise a weak whine and his elitist game play atttiudes. You would think he was secretly auditioning for the muppets.

Guppy I for one would like the Vc back. It was a fun base defence ride especially against CV planes when you are capped at 3k.  

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Whats sad about this thread is it's an excellent technology thread being used by a digruntled player to poorly disguise a weak whine and his elitist game play atttiudes. You would think he was secretly auditioning for the muppets.

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trying to figure out what you are saying???? sounds an awful lot like an insult to all Muppets.

[Karnak]

Doesn't mean we shouldn't all kick Karnak in the testes either for suggesting it in the first place, and then pointing out the fact 5 years later. 

I'll defend myself from that accusation.  I knew HTC's preference to have a simple Mk # for British aircraft and thus the only way I could get both the 1942 F.Mk IX and the 1944 LF.Mk IXe in the game, as logical Spitfire progression demanded, was to suggest the Mk XVI as it is the same bloody Spitfire as the LF.Mk IXe flying under a different name!


Just imagine if HTC had put the Mk XVI in at +25lbs boost as I'd suggested......

I still think the Mk F.XIVe should be remodeled at +21lbs boost on 150 octane to justify its being perked.

[lyric1]

I still think the Mk F.XIVe should be remodeled at +21lbs boost on 150 octane to justify its being perked.

Now that would be interesting. Did any of the clipped wing XIV's see much use?

[Karnak]

Now that would be interesting. Did any of the clipped wing XIV's see much use?

Guppy says they weren't used during the war, but I really recall reading about bubble canopy Spitfire FR.Mk XIVes that had clipped wings to address skin buckling that was being caused by the weight of the cameras.

[lyric1]

Guppy says they weren't used during the war, but I really recall reading about bubble canopy Spitfire FR.Mk XIVes that had clipped wings to address skin buckling that was being caused by the weight of the cameras.

The book I have about RAAF 453 squadron has profiles & pictures of those but arrived on the end of ETO or a few days after I forget now.

[IrishOne]

the muppets are excellent

you said it dude 

[bustr]

At least the muppets don't hide a whine in a good technology thread. But, alas they do dork with the text editor unabashedly and often............This is the dweeb ride of thier textual perfidy they often hijack threads with. Still, at least they only dweeb ride the boards.