It took years to persuade Hitech to remove the perk on the Lancaster, Ta152 and the Spit XIV. They didn't end up destabilizing game play in the MA like the F4u-1C with it's four cannons which still has a perk. Guess it makes a superior HO platform to the N1K2 which from stories about it's introduction just before I joined the game, everyone flew the F4u-1C and HO'd every and anything all the time.
That is the real purpose of perking rides, their ability to destabilize game play. You can see how the Tempest and 262 become mildly destabilizing of general play fun just around a single airfield. If they had no perk, the arena would be full of them to the detriment of game play. You can HO with 4-Hispano's from a long way off and not have to get too close, then run away at very high speed. And the 262, even if you don't kill anything, as long as you stay fast, keep an eye on high cons, and don't kiss any trees. You will make the airspace over an airfield miserable until you leave. When both or either shows up to a furball, or a base capture, suddenly everything you do in the air is dictated by avoiding getting picked by one or both doing a drive by through the fun you were having.
The current late war none perked fighters do not destabilize the game. Everyone fly's them to be on an equal footing while maximizing their chances of surviving and possibly getting kills. New players enter the MA have that much going for them if all they can do is get alt and dive away running to try again. I doubt Hitech will ever force customers to become easy targets in lesser rides as their first experience in this game.
Some people try to indirectly threaten Hitech with a dire future if he doesn't concede to their assessments of his game and implement their changes as the new paradigm. It took years of presenting supportable arguments to Hitech for the perk removal on the Lancaster, Ta152 and Spit XIV. In other cases he overnight took an idea he thought was good and rolled it out with the next patch. In all of these cases substantive facts were presented or the person just had a "good idea" from Hitech's perspective.
Usually good ideas from Hitech's perspective get an almost same day response from Hitech in the Wish List after watching all of this for about 15 years. Belaboring the ideas with a purse fight doesn't often make the original idea any better, a few times Hitech has asked about a later none original poster response counter idea. Generally like this post, the purse fight becomes it's own reason for taking part in the discussion.
