I dont think most people in the game will bother to do a research to chose and airplane based on historical value. they will pick whichever airplane looks familiar. You will not change that. for many years I thought that the japanese only had one fighter, the zero. give a choice of country most will pick the us and you will still end up with a us aircraft. you cannot change that. but perhaps it may help you understand this if I explain why i picked the a26 instead of some other plane i never heard of.
I flew airwarrior back in the 90's. actually the only reason i found this game, was because of my memories of airwarrior. in that game i flew the a26 a lot, i have lots of good memories of the a26. that's it. It doesnt matter that the a26 will not be the same as the aw a26. I just want to be able to fly the a26 again for old times sake. and it would be my buff of choice, replacing my b26.
that's why at the end when the a26 was out, i just chose I dont care, because i didnt. but to be honest the b29 will probably see more use than the last aircraft added. I'll fly it and if it has defensive guns. i will not go higher than 10k. 1/2 the fun of flying a buff is using the guns.
I really hate to see you guys that want an expanded plane set for your fso, snapshots, etc try to make rules to get one plane that it is "needed" there, but wont get used anywhere else. I am beginning to understand hitech's "people dont really know what they want" statement. Look at the ww1 arena. many people asked for it and it sits unused, they want more planes, that wont get used.
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