Buying Perk Points

[phatzo]

Why not make the points only available from other players.   Set up a marketplace where people can choose to buy perk points for whatever a player wants to sell them for.   Laissez-faire. 

I can see it now.   "Hey Ray77 I just shot your 262 down.   I'll sell those perk point back to you for 10cents a point." 

Because that doesn't bring any revenue to the game.

[bustr]

What about social justice the top 1% should spread the wealth...

Social Justice would be HiTech having a once a month no perk night in the MA. Then the prepubescent perkless weenies would find out the kindness all the vets have accorded them by being more interested in playing the game than filling the skys with 262 or finding anyway possible to exploit it. Including conning the owner into selling perk points for penny's on the dollar.

The cost of a 262 can be earned in about 2 nights of flying only the P47D-11 and vulching at capped feilds once you can land 4-5 kills a sortie. Cost of a Tempest in about 2-3 hours of the same. Spit14, CHog, or 163 one or two sorties. But, then that would mean working your butt off for a while learning a non-uber ride with an uber gun package that only goes fast pointed at the ground.

How about all of the current perk rides available on a sliding scale perk price that limits the amount of ammo.

262
10 - 25 perks 3 rounds per gun<---half of them will blow this off by accident on the runway.
30 - 45 perks 5 rounds per gun
50 - 65 perks 7 rounds per gun
You can see where this is going. Affordable Uberage packages for the lazy 99%OWers in the game.

HiTech could institute a system adjunct to earning perks loosely based on the time the average player spends earning them.

262 - $25.95
Tempest - $15.95
Spit14 - $9.95
F4u-1C - $8.98
Me163 - $5.95
B29 - $30.95

The absolute best way to earn perks is very simple. Spend one month(30 days) in the DA every night for 3 hours with the muppets and anyone else you can beg to kick your sorry kester. After that you will clean up in the MA against the majority of average players over capped airfeilds flying early and midwar rides earning bodacious amounts of perks.

Call it the: "30 Days to Perk Earning Success Program"

It's had a 100% success rate since I've been playing this game for about 10 years or so.

Buying 5000 perk points for 10 bucks is no different than cheating.

[skorpx1]

Here's my idea on how to farm perks.

Step 1: Up a P40 of any kind, they're all under 30 ENY anyways.
Step 2: Wait until a horde comes along.
Step 3: When someone calls out the horde, go to that base and get easy, free, kills with minimal effort.
Step 4: ????????
Step 5: Profit.

NOTE: Only works if you are at 15k or above in the low ENY plane. You'll most likely be fighting 38's or 51's on the deck. If you try to fight that battle you will only lose. On the rare occasion the Bish will take N1K's to the fight because they're teh uburrrr planezz.

[kvuo75]

Buying 5000 perk points for 10 bucks is no different than cheating.

or they can just keep the current system.  

[guncrasher]

Here's my idea on how to farm perks.

Step 1: Up a P40 of any kind, they're all under 30 ENY anyways.
Step 2: Wait until a horde comes along.
Step 3: When someone calls out the horde, go to that base and get easy, free, kills with minimal effort.
Step 4: ????????
Step 5: Profit.

NOTE: Only works if you are at 15k or above in the low ENY plane. You'll most likely be fighting 38's or 51's on the deck. If you try to fight that battle you will only lose. On the rare occasion the Bish will take N1K's to the fight because they're teh uburrrr planezz.

just go to mw or ew, up any high eny plane after switching to the other country that doesnt have the 2 players on.  bomb anything and kill some ack and land, easiest perks anywhere, no need to even get into a fight.

midway

[BaldEagl]

and when you fly a jet you don't crash it on the first turn because you have some experience in how to "fly".

I crashed my first jet.   

Actually I crashed my first 262 and my first 163.   

[Chalenge]

I'm all for it! Except, I think it should be more like $1/perk. Specifically, if you can't figure out how to get perks quickly then you need more time in the TA.

[Ray77]

Because that doesn't bring any revenue to the game.

Why can't HT charge a tranaction%?


BTW..I have no interest in buying points for myself, but I think it could be fun to earn some money toward paying my $15 month nut playing a game. 

[Babalonian]

As much as the neewbs would love spending $10 for a week of pure 262 sorties - so would the vets (I know I would sacrafice a couple beers a week for this).


Personaly, I would like to see what would happen in the MAs if 262's went on sale once for 50% across the board.  Would the skies be littered with them, or only maybe see 20% more use?  I think they're currently not too high in price, but in contradiction they do seem sometimes too rare - I dont see as many as I used to and I certainly don't see them used by any stick whos name I'm unfamiliar with like I feel like I used to. 

[Aspen]

I like it within reason.  I want HTC to be successful.  How about you can buy perks but only a limited amount per tour.  That way it doesn't become jet city, HTC gets a bit of revenue, its completely voluntary, and running into jets and tempys piloted by folks without the time or experience to have enough perks without buying them sounds like nom noms. 

[Bruv119]

Why not make the points only available from other players.   Set up a marketplace where people can choose to buy perk points for whatever a player wants to sell them for.   Laissez-faire.  

I can see it now.   "Hey Ray77 I just shot your 262 down.   I'll sell those perk point back to you for 10cents a point."  

I'm listening to this idea purely for the selfish reason, that I'll sell all my 30k fighter perks too the highest bidder.   ,  Maybe HTC incur a transaction tax for every perk point sold.   This way i'll earn more perks, sell them and HTC gets a slice.  

Lets say 10%   I trade 100 perks for a fixed price of say $1 and HT gets 10 cents.   I sell 1000 perks for $20 HTC gets $4.  I sell 5000 perks for $100 HTC gets $25. 

[RotBaron]

NO

 

[bustr]

If HTC lost thier minds for a short time and agreed to this. How much would the transaction fee and the taxman fee cost per transfer of funds for digital HTC $PERKBUCKS$ ? It might be safer just to sell the perk rides up front for a fee rather than setup an exchange for real world money to virtual money. But, then Aces High would reduce itself to becoming WoT. And your ability to succeed in the game may morph into how big of an allowence your parents give you each tour.

"Ha Ha jerk. I'm better than you cause my mommy can buy me 262's."

Be hard not to ignore this concept everytime a perk ride flames your mid war perk farmer over and over and over again.

Lusche had a request to be able to anonymously tranfer perks to players. Another vet wanted to be able to pay up front for say 20 F4u-4 in his mission himself. I've asked in the past for the ability to give my squadmates the price of a 262 so we could all up a 262 fighter sweep.

Even Lusche's request is destabalising to game play because players not as honorable as himself would conspire to destablise the arena. Being able to pay up front for 20 perk rides yourself or pass perks to squadmates for 24 player 262 sweeps are limited scope destabalising. Being able to buy 2000 to 5000 perks at a time is worse due to how many times in a night a group of players could fly 262 and destabalise an arena with numbers as long as mommy's credit card is good. Especialy if the OP's original suggestion of pricing was implimented.

 $9.99 = 5,000 Points
$14.99 = 10,000 Points
$19.99 = 20,000 Points

This priceing format is a cheap insult to how much time and effort it realy takes to earn that many points for the majority of players. It might be more honest if HTC simply gave everyone on the first day of each new tour one free 262.

Lately in the U.S. anytime someone uses justifications like the following to get you to do something. They couldn't give a rats hairy kester about anyones outcome but their own. Even if it sinks your boat and burns your home to the ground.

3.  The game becomes more open and diverse.<---your tax dollars at work in public education.

[HawkerMKII]

I'm listening to this idea purely for the selfish reason, that I'll sell all my 30k fighter perks too the highest bidder.   ,  Maybe HTC incur a transaction tax for every perk point sold.   This way i'll earn more perks, sell them and HTC gets a slice.  

Lets say 10%   I trade 100 perks for a fixed price of say $1 and HT gets 10 cents.   I sell 1000 perks for $20 HTC gets $4.  I sell 5000 perks for $100 HTC gets $25. 

Very big NO to this idea also

[Bruv119]

As much as the neewbs would love spending $10 for a week of pure 262 sorties - so would the vets (I know I would sacrafice a couple beers a week for this).


Personaly, I would like to see what would happen in the MAs if 262's went on sale once for 50% across the board.  Would the skies be littered with them, or only maybe see 20% more use?  I think they're currently not too high in price, but in contradiction they do seem sometimes too rare - I dont see as many as I used to and I certainly don't see them used by any stick whos name I'm unfamiliar with like I feel like I used to. 

the 262 takes some practice to get used to the gunnery and flight model.  You can guarantee anyone who isn't good enough to earn the perks to fly it will lose the plane on their first sortie.   

The only other people I see it benefiting are the churn players or shades who continually change their ID.