Get flying more variety

[Rob52240]

Bustr mentioned that nobody flies the new planes as they get added.  I must agree.

Why not give a different crappy fighter/bomber/gv that hardly gets used a perk multiplier that changes to different planes/vehicles daily?

This could also be applied to be country specific depending on what gets used the least.  

Post the specials of the planes on the welcome clipboard.

[Lusche]

Bustr mentioned that nobody flies the new planes as they get added.

Where did he say that? Can't imagine he actually did, as it is not true.

[Rob52240]

Where did he say that? Can't imagine he actually did, as it is not true.

Maybe it was little use.  Either way it would be nice to shoot at a larger variety of rides.

[Wiley]

Personally I'd rather have people flying rides they're comfortable in and somewhat good in rather than an enemy force that's using the Special Of the Day who have never used it before.

The ENY system already gives a perk bonus for flying the non uber rides.

Wiley.

[morfiend]

Personally I'd rather have people flying rides they're comfortable in and somewhat good in rather than an enemy force that's using the Special Of the Day who have never used it before.

The ENY system already gives a perk bonus for flying the non uber rides.

Wiley.

 While I agree with you Wiley,it might be nice to have a plane of the day or week and award extra perks for killing in it or kills of it!  Hey maybe select 2 planes,one for kills of and one for kills with!

  We could have say 50% more perks awarded as an example.  Not sure if it would require too much work to implement or if it would even change anything but so long as it's optional I dont really see a down side.


   

[Wiley]

 While I agree with you Wiley,it might be nice to have a plane of the day or week and award extra perks for killing in it or kills of it!  Hey maybe select 2 planes,one for kills of and one for kills with!

  We could have say 50% more perks awarded as an example.  Not sure if it would require too much work to implement or if it would even change anything but so long as it's optional I dont really see a down side.


   

People will always find a downside.  I could easily see feelings of persecution arising as they rotate the +50% for kills of through the 5 ENY birds.  "I'm being penalized for flying my P51/LA7/whatever!"

If 7 perks for a pony kill doesn't get you into a D11, I don't see why 10.5 would.

Wiley.

[Randy1]

You are wasting your time on this one. 

I would say about 25%(WAG) want to fly the sane plane every sortie with only a few stray ventures from the everyday ride.  Another 25%-40%(WAG) only want a plane that is in the top 5 so they have a performance advantage.  So you have a lot of players who will stand on the cowling and shout don't make me fly what you want me to fly. 

I think it would be cool beans to have one day a month where the late war is closed and one of the other two war arenas open.  It will not happen.  It is just human nature to resist change.

[The Fugitive]

You are wasting your time on this one. 

I would say about 25%(WAG) want to fly the sane plane every sortie with only a few stray ventures from the everyday ride.  Another 25%-40%(WAG) only want a plane that is in the top 5 so they have a performance advantage.  So you have a lot of players who will stand on the cowling and shout don't make me fly what you want me to fly. 

I think it would be cool beans to have one day a month where the late war is closed and one of the other two war arenas open.  It will not happen.  It is just human nature to resist change.

yes, much like the OP who flies only the D9 these days 

[perdue3]

Bustr mentioned that nobody flies the new planes as they get added.  I must agree.

Why not give a different crappy fighter/bomber/gv that hardly gets used a perk multiplier that changes to different planes/vehicles daily?

This could also be applied to be country specific depending on what gets used the least.  

Post the specials of the planes on the welcome clipboard.

They are added for different reasons. The Tu-2 adds a dimension to special events. We can now successfully run late war Eastern Front events with the correct bomber (one of them). The Yak-7 adds a mid war Russian bird for mid war events that would have otherwise had mostly American aircraft. The MA is not the only reason aircraft are added.

[Lusche]

They are added for different reasons. The Tu-2 adds a dimension to special events.

And still turned out to be quite a popular bomber in the MA, especially when ii comes to sinking CV's

[Aspen]

+1  having a p39 or (insert plane) bonus perk day/week/tour doesn't take anything away from anyone or force anyone to fly a certain plane.  Might even prompt someone to fly a little more or reignite a desire to play in someone who is getting bored.  I think it would be in HTCs best interest to have something similar to this going on all the time.  Throw something new, but simple in every tour while folks wait on the big stuff like new planes and terrains.  

[bustr]

Not a bad idea to have the dog plane of the week in the LWMA with a hefty advertised perk reward. Bf109 E week. For landing two kills get 25 perks. Two perks for every additional kill past two. There are well known vets who would clean up but, how lame since many of them already have gazillions of perks.

Yes late nights someone would either have a second PC and vulch themselves on the runway. Or friends would jump country and pad each others perk bank for 262 later in the week. And we know the busybodies who monitor player stats for just such things would be posting a wall of shame in the forums. For some a wall of hero's.

This is almost connecting the dots to why AH doesn't have pay for better rides and mods. Contests in the MA to earn perks or even a trophy at the end of the month. It would become a contest to get away with stealing the outcome rather than earning it the old fashioned way.

[Lab Rat 3947]

I think it would be cool beans to have one day a month where the late war is closed and one of the other two war arenas open.

sounds interesting

Yes late nights someone would either have a second PC and vulch themselves on the runway. Or friends would jump country and pad each others perk bank for 262 later in the week. And we know the busybodies who monitor player stats for just such things would be posting a wall of shame in the forums. For some a wall of hero's.

This is almost connecting the dots to why AH doesn't have pay for better rides and mods. Contests in the MA to earn perks or even a trophy at the end of the month. It would become a contest to get away with stealing the outcome rather than earning it the old fashioned way.

There will always be those that game the game to win.  

Everyone is here for their own reasons. Some play to win at all costs, some for team effort & tactics. We all have our own reasons.
I only fly P-38s because I wanted to when I was a kid. This is also the only game I play.

just my $0.02


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[guncrasher]

I got about 8k perks that I earned flying the ponyd at 1 perk for every 20 kills.  if I wanted more perks I would just go to the midwar or ew and use one of the earlier war airplanes and bomb empty fields.  what more incentive than that do you want .


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[Zacherof]

Not a bad idea to have the dog plane of the week in the LWMA with a hefty advertised perk reward. Bf109 E week. For landing two kills get 25 perks. Two perks for every additional kill past two. There are well known vets who would clean up but, how lame since many of them already have gazillions of perks.

Yes late nights someone would either have a second PC and vulch themselves on the runway. Or friends would jump country and pad each others perk bank for 262 later in the week. And we know the busybodies who monitor player stats for just such things would be posting a wall of shame in the forums. For some a wall of hero's.

This is almost connecting the dots to why AH doesn't have pay for better rides and mods. Contests in the MA to earn perks or even a trophy at the end of the month. It would become a contest to get away with stealing the outcome rather than earning it the old fashioned way.

them nosey body bored chaps!