FREE SPIT 14 and new perk changes to other planes!

[MrRiplEy[H]]

And what exacly prevented you from flying one before?
...if you are about to say "perk cost", please tell us how many perk points do you have.

I have been playing AH for 10+ years and I currently have enough points for 1x262 and nothing more. All perks lost due to an unfortunate name change and on/off playing a few years back. So it's totally possible the perk cost is a factor for many others also.

[Karnak]

And what exacly prevented you from flying one before?
...if you are about to say "perk cost", please tell us how many perk points do you have.

The "Please gangbang me" tag made it not fun.  It didn't have the speed to survive that tag.

I find it funny, and revealing of bias, that the unperking of the Ta152H-1 (which was a much more successful perk plane) raised no objections at the time, just some "What about the Spit XIV?" posts.

[bozon]

The "Please gangbang me" tag made it not fun.  It didn't have the speed to survive that tag.

I find it funny, and revealing of bias, that the unperking of the Ta152H-1 (which was a much more successful perk plane) raised no objections at the time, just some "What about the Spit XIV?" posts.

the Ta152 should not have happened either, but that is just my opinion. The "Please gangbang me" tag is a mixed blessing - I enjoy the fact the the enemy come to me instead of running away from me.

I have been playing AH for 10+ years and I currently have enough points for 1x262 and nothing more. All perks lost due to an unfortunate name change and on/off playing a few years back. So it's totally possible the perk cost is a factor for many others also.

I returned to the game a year ago and since I accumulated a few thousand perks with nothing to spend them on except on 262s that I use to chase other 262s, or for lolz missions with the LD gang. If the cost was 2 perks, would that still be unfordable?
My argument is not specific to the Spit14 as there are quite a few planes I'd perk before the 14.

[Karnak]

Bozon,

The P-51D is probably not able to be perked, even at a cost of 1, for business reasons.  That makes perking all of the other late war stuff moot.

[save]

I have close to 12k perk points, so the perk point expendable is not an issue for me.

Flying around in a perked bird does just not do it for me if we are not doing a 262 mission for a reason.


Usage will not be less in A8 in the future unless they remove the outer guns (30mm and 20mm) or increase the weight of the plane by another 1000lb, and still 4 times more 51d happily fly around ...

what I'm trying to say is ENY does not impact usage of a plane unless its like ENY 5, with current arena  settings

Why not perk it, if HTC wants a plane to have a lesser usage.

[ntrudr]

I logged on yesterday, saw 7 spits, 6 of them XIV's and one 9.

I was on yesterday in 2 large ongoing furballs, one against the bish and one against the nits, seems 30-40% of each furball was spits, but all I saw were 16s and 8s.  Did get an achievement for shooting down so many spits in a 190 tho.

[caldera]

The "Please gangbang me" tag made it not fun.  It didn't have the speed to survive that tag.

I find it funny, and revealing of bias, that the unperking of the Ta152H-1 (which was a much more successful perk plane) raised no objections at the time, just some "What about the Spit XIV?" posts.

The "please gangbang me" tag is actually reserved for the P-40.  Anyone who thinks that their respective ride gets undue enemy dogpiling should take out the Warhawk for a few sorties. 

[Karnak]

The "please gangbang me" tag is actually reserved for the P-40.  Anyone who thinks that their respective ride gets undue enemy dogpiling should take out the Warhawk for a few sorties. 

I have.  Mossie has it worse.  Spit XIV had it even worse.

[caldera]

<Bill Lumbergh voice> "Yeah, I'm going to have to go ahead and sort of disagree with you there."

The Mossie is a juicy target, but has very dangerous guns and way more speed to distance you from the crowd.  The P-40 is so slow and the climb and acceleration are atrocious - it can't get away until every single enemy in icon range is dead.  The only plane that draws more attention is the 262, followed by the Tempest.  Both of those only get caught if they screw up.

[save]

a low 110c ....

[Triton28]

Umm... P-38G/J/L = Strongest redguy magnet in the game.  This is not up for debate.   

[ntrudr]

a low 110c ....

Save, you know for us, the biggest red magnet is the La La.  Nothing makes us cheer more than killing the ultimate dweeb ride.

[Tank-Ace]

I'd have to say the biggest "kill me" tag belongs to the 262. People will drop whatever they are doing to dive at a 262 even if there is a full 1000yds of lateral displacement.

[Karnak]

Umm... P-38G/J/L = Strongest redguy magnet in the game.  This is not up for debate.   

Not even close.  And I have spent a good amount of time in the P-38.

[MrRiplEy[H]]

I returned to the game a year ago and since I accumulated a few thousand perks with nothing to spend them on except on 262s that I use to chase other 262s, or for lolz missions with the LD gang. If the cost was 2 perks, would that still be unfordable?
My argument is not specific to the Spit14 as there are quite a few planes I'd perk before the 14.

You returned to the game a year ago and probably racked more hours in 1 month than I have in the past 2 years. I lost literally thousands of perks due to a name change and after that I haven't really been able to get them back. When I played so much to get perk points I didn't need perk rides to survive. Now that I play so little that I need perk rides to survive I can't afford them anymore. This is the thing I've always said about perks - it gives negative returns.