Introducing the "Evolving" Plane Set!

[Apeboy]

Not being one just to sit around and complain, I thought I'd offer up something so I can take my fair share of heat    .

Here Goes.  Understand this is with a more complete plane set in mind and all time frames arbitrary.

Week 1
Early War planes, 109s, Hurris, Spits, P-40B, Vals along with He-111s, Stukas etc etc.

Week 2
Players that have a high enough score are able to access the FW, shortly after(2-3 days?), GB answers in a upgraded variant of the Spit follwed by the next historically arriving aircraft or varient.  This continues with the score multiplier in place for those who have yet to get enough points to fly the more advanced planes.  This is also happening in the PTO at the same rate.

End of Week 3
All planes availible for that period of time whether you have the points or not.  Say through 1942-43ish

Week 4
Everyone flies the same AC.  The earliest of AC through whatever cutoff for the first round is set.  Score multiplier still in place for those choosing to fly the P-40B against a FW, or the like.

Week 5
Players with enough points are now allowed to fly the next generation of AC or varient. One at a time, again, maybe 2 or 3 days in between each new AC or varient.  This way if the next plane is a TnBer you have some chance in a earlier BnZer.  Also you slow the rate at which advanced planes are entering the arena.  It is just not in one day you have the skies filled with 3 or 4 upgraded AC.  If you've flown the 40b vs the FWs or Spits, you have a leg up already.

End of Week 6
Everyone upgraded, regardless of score.

Now the process continues to repeat until 1945..Or beyond?

This could be further tweaked in that if you are proficient in a PTO plane you would have to become proficient in ETO planes the same way.  I.E.  Changing from the f4f to f6f is not the same from transitioning from a f4f to a Spit9.  Or bomber points are exclusive from fighter points.  All depends on how you want to carve it up.

Well?  What do you think?

Cya up there,
Apeboy



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[Duckwing6]

good idea .. but NO

in the MA i want to fly my fav plane when I want and not when the RPS is advanced enough.
(this kept me out of WB..)

[miko2d]

 I hear you, DW, but if your favorite plane happends to be a late war plane, that could make it impossible for someone else to fly his favorite plane.

 If I want to practice in my I-16, or better yet I-15 biplane to be able to use it well in the special events, and you are flying around in your Me262 or F86 all the time, I may as well not bother to take off.

 If they had enough players to fill multiple arenas consistently, they could make separate arenas for early, mid and late war planesets.

 I guess right now we are going to fly the planes that HT and Pyro like and hope their tastes coinside with ours.

miko--

[Yeager]

I support the conecpt of RPS.  I also support the concept of freedom of choice.  

Damn....stuck again.

Yeager

[Badger]

Can't Yeager have his cake and eat it too?

An HA arena with an Apeboy's RPS and leave the MA as what it is today to please that crowd?

Dumb?  Too complicated?

Regards,
Badger

[Lucchini]

 Test

[Gunthr]

Thanks for stepping up to the plate, Apeboy.  

Score multipliers, YES.

PERKY PLANES based on score, NO.

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[Luckyone]

Gunthr,
       Are your Guns Jammed? If I were a commander I'd let my best pilots have have equipment they want! When available(key words)! If the scores are a factor for best pilots, I'd want them in the best thing I could build for them. Besides, as realistic as Aces higH seems at times it is still a game that is growing. I like every thing so far (that is in their control). It was a very flustrating wait for Dale and the Great powers that are to key the things that have carried us this far. I hope for more and I see great insight as to how HTC brings it into the game. I'm not bleeting thier praise as a pet sheep. I've just fould one group of people that are people and provide a great service to all of us that are ole' WW2 freaks like me.

I traveled to see for myself. I work to better myself. I imagined the best and worst and I have been guided to this place in this time to state this to you, one an all. HTC is  the ONE! I just hope they prove me right again. I'd like to see them make some real money as a group this time, on thier own. They should!
I think the pay for plane is a great concept! That uhmmmmuhm, was it wilber or orvil that thought that up first? Shoot, it's the way to go anyway.!
ao2
THUNDERBIRDS

[Hristo]

There are people who oppose RPS.

Their main argument is that they want to fly their favourite ride all the time (P 51, for example).

Now, what about people whose favourite ride is 262 ? Do they have the same right ?

[Gunthr]

Hi Lucky,
Sometimes I do think my guns are jammed but thats another story...  

Hey, I'm right there with ya supporting AH, and I'm still impressed with the work of the HTC crew - I wouldna come over here permanantly if I didn't.

I just have my own opinion I guess, on how the PERKY Planes should be metered out. It appears to me that the guy/gal who is able to spend more time on the computer is going to be flying the Perky Planes a lot more than somebody like me who rarely logs over 5 hours per week. When I do get to fly, I'm likely to ditch when I'm out of ammo after a long chase to save my precious flying time rather than waste it flying back to base, for example, and I'm more inclined to take off at a base under attack just to get in the fight before I have to get off the computer.

Under the proposed Perk Plan, it sounds like I will have less opportunity to fly the Perks.

That rubs me the wrong way. I pay my $30 per month just like the high scorers. I don't want to be penalized because I'm not that gifted, or because I can't fly that much. It would leave me feeling slightly resentful.

Frankly, I would rather see some random factor for metering the PERK rides, with everybody having an equal chance.

I agree Lucky, in RL, the high scoring pilots under my command would recieve the advanced aircraft, but this isn't RL.

I also fear the spector of "Elitism" which infected the other prop sim.

There are other ways to reward the high scorers in AH.

I could be wrong, but that's how I feel about it at the moment.  


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[Citabria]

your idea would work great for an HA.

I've always been fascinated by the technology race between the axis and the allies, it sounds like your idea would simulate this quite well.

especially when the planes first apeared and were being flown by special squadrons before being produced in numbers available for entire wings and groups.  

[Citabria]

IN the distant distant future though, I dinae think it will be viable any time soon...

be a long time before we have a planeset able to do this and an HA so I think when all those aircraft are built and when an HA arives one day the two will come together nicely with your idea