Perk Planes

[AKcurly]

What is the perk concept supposed to bring to the game?  A more balanced arena?

The d9 and la7 did far more to balance the arena than anything else (if balance means getting guys out of F4Us and N1ks.)

I had slightly over 2,000 perk points when perk planes made it to the arena; I have more than that now.  Why?  I rarely fly the perk planes!  

I'm not bad-mouthing the ta-152 but it's pretty limited in abilities.  The tempest is cool, but I still like other planes better.  Even if the tempest were free, I still wouldn't fly it much.

I am not advocating perking F4U1Cs, N1Ks or G10s, but they are far deadlier than tempests.

Pyro, why not try this?  I know you are opposed to a rolling plane set.  Ok, kewl.
Why not roll the perks?  Let each tour represent the entire WW2.  All planes would be available the entire tour, but say the first 5 or 6 days, only 1939 airplanes are available free - everything else is perked at an extremely high price.  The second 5 or 6 days, remove the perks from a few of the planes, and so on.  During the last phase of the tour, all planes would be available with no perk charge.

AKcurly

[LLv34_Camouflage]

Good idea.  

Camo

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[Kieran]

You know, I like this idea a lot. It might be another way to gather data on the impact of particular aircraft- sort of a "what is perkable" survey...

[LePaul]

Not to add to another Perk Thread, I agree.  I do not see the Arado and TA-152 as threats at all.  Honestly, its the Niks and F4s that are consistently bringing me down, no matter what I fly.

With discos, server bombs or resets, its more a *hazzard* to fly perk planes than to engage them in action  

I also think its unfair that those who pay, yet not many hours, can't fly the perked planes unless they accrue a lot of points.  Im not the best of players and its taken me a *long* time to obtain the 200 or so I have.

So, Im all for making all the planes unperked.  It would be nice to have players more involved in taking bases, shooting down fghters etc rather than shopping for perkies  

I think the great experiment of balance is over.  I dont think we need to perk the aircraft.  Check the stats, see what most are flying.  There isnt any imbalance.



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[AKDejaVu]

The tempest would replace the chog as the most popular ride in the arena.  Its just too fast to look over if perk points aren't associated with it.  At least I can catch the occasional F4u.. I'd never catch a tempest.

AKDejaVu

[anRky]

Great idea curly!

anRky

[RASTER]

Hey AKcurly, what is this about rolling plane sets?

 

Pyro, why not try this? I know you are opposed to a rolling plane set. Ok, kewl.

I also think perk points may not be the ideal method. Perhaps if rolling planes advanced as certain objectives were met which were performance driven rather than schedualed arbitrarily. What objectives? Well, organized objectives where the planes/vehicles don't come into the game until certain targets have been rendered by the correct use of the usable plane and weapons set. This could happen within an hour or within weeks depending upon whose doing all the cheat'n.

RASTER

[SFRT - Frenchy]

Just low perk the F4C/LA7/Niki, somehting like 10 perkies.

Easy to rebuild 10 perkies, but at leats u don't fly those at each mission you do  

[SOB]

I like the way the perk system is working out, and am not in favor of a rolling planeset, even in the way curly describes.  I'm also not in favor of perking the Chog or the Niki or the...LA7???


SOB

[funked]

Perk everything that entered service after 1942.

[Animal]

I'm with funked on this.

[Hobodog]

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[This message has been edited by Hobodog (edited 04-15-2001).]

[Sturm]

IMO the only plane to be perked would be the Tempest, unperk it and yes it would replace the Chog as choice ride for stat mongers.  The 152 well I havent been shot down by one up high yet, and to me it really isn't a threat down low where most of the action takes place.  I am against perking planes for those that don't have the time to acrue perk points as to those that fly all the time.  But the Tempest is the one plane I think should have a perk value.  My .02 worth again.

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[Torgo]

For some reason I see a bit of disdain for the Tempest, and the high kill ratio is dismissed as only good pilots flying it (which is a valid point) but I assure you an unperked Tempest would occur in FAR greater a % of total arena numbers than the CHog EVER reached.

[DB603]

S!

 I agree that Ta152 is not worth perking due to it's very limited use.I will not risk losing my perks for  flying a Ta152 against a flying AA Battery Buff.At low down the Ta152 sucks.
 Ar234 has no big impact yet.I rarely fly it due to the fear of disconnection more than enemy.
 Tempest..tested and got disco.Not anymore.If Tempest would be no perkie,then the MA would be a h*ll for those flying mid war planes.C-Hog is a disease already,why make it worse?
 About perking Dora.I see no reason.Most pilots do a few passes and run after losing advantage.If You get the Dora to a turn fight-->Kablooey!It is ded.
La7..hmmm...not really needed to be perked.U can kill it even with mid war plane.Fast at low alt,but sucks above 15k.
In short I would suggest having arenas for both PTO and ETO planes.Of course with appropriate style of map.Just my 2 cents...




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