I never had trouble with the Yak3 or the 190D. Never bothered me that players just run away when I beat them shrugged it off and turned towards other people. I think you’ve gone a bit over board here. Both of those planes could use a ENY adjustment even then it’s not going to really matter.
You shouldnt Try and dictate other players gameplay because it doesn’t suit yours. You are really hampering down on the reason the numbers are declining is because of these two planes. I don’t think you could be any more wrong in that statement.
IMO, the reason the numbers are dwindling is because it takes to long to get into action. When you do find a fight the base is already taken.
I respect your opinion on the game as you have put in a lot of time and have gotten pretty decent at flying. But you are really talking about behavior and you just don’t see it when every single person is telling you it lol. We can’t help you there brother. Good luck beating down this wall you’ve made though!
I guess I just don't understand why there are even perks at all according to all of yours rational.
You said time to action was a problem.. how doesn't that include easy mode runner plane? Is chasing 190Ds in your G14 really actionable?
My first goal to help gameplay was to shorten base distance. Hitech allowed bustr to try it and it has worked, from my view. This is what you are implying by "taking too long for action".
My second goal was to use the arena message to promote special events. It's was tried last month. Not sure how it worked out. Was actually wondering about that. But I think it helped because players could plan for it easier.
Now we really need an eny adjustment to promote mid war and lower eny planes. This will bring more action because there will be more fights relative to performance of the planes. Ie, players will have to actually use skill rather than plane performance to succeed.
I don't see how that is a problem... I'm not dictating anyone's fights. They can easily earn perks just like me. I'm just trying to balance the fighter #s by perking top late war planes that have over saturated the area, and showing that perking planes does have an effect on plane usages, or we wouldn't have perks to begin with.