Semp,
I respect you as a player, but I just disagree. Nothing wrong with removing the elite button from the jets. What we don't need however, is tons of them flying everywhere. That is what the perk system was supposed to insure I thought. Yet last night, on 5 different sorties, I encountered Me262s on 3 of them. Thank goodness, neither one was Grizz or Kappa.
Revamping the perk system, may actually introduce some newer players to something that maybe they are more comfortable with and they may even become the ones that are able to keep Grizz or Kappa in check (or at least give them some competition). Just because a player is new, does not mean that he is not familiar with aircraft management, gun solutions, situation awareness, etc.
On the other hand, we now have a system that has astronomical perk costs for equipment that is advertised, but reserved for those able to assemble either a ton of kills or log a ton of time. The perk exchange would be difficult enough to retain that players that frequently fly them but would also most likely drain their perks from doin so.
The advantage of those who now have plenty of perks already banked, would keep the insentives high to keep accounts active. The newer accounts will still need to fly the lower or zero perked planes in order to gain access to the higher perked items, but much more available to them (in 2 weeks for instance).
This system of managing your flight of perked planes would then in turn result in lower numbers of these aircraft encountered per sortie.
