1000 perks for a plane is waay too high imho.
Ive been flying for a month with and barely have 400 points. And I do fly a lot, having no job and no social life.
I would expect cheap perk planes (chog, n1k, late war planes) to cost like 10 or 30 perkies.. it takes 2 to 4 sorties to get those points. More powerful rides like the me262 and the like I'd expect to cost from 300 to 500 perkies.
Honestly though, how many Me-262's do you expect to see a pilot in a given month if it cost 400 perkies? Once? Twice?
Not to mention if HTC adds a "pay perks to repair your perk plane" + repair depot on the airfields... or perk weapons (b29=500 perks, nuke bomb=500 perks or pay 4 perk points to load air-to-air rockets or aerial bombs on your 109!). The rate of perk point consumption vs gain at these prices would allow a player to at least ride his perk plane at least twice a month.
Another idea I like is to have the perk rides be "bought" with perk points. In this case, an Me-262 WOULD cost like 1000+ perk points. But you get to keep the plane until it is destroyed. The plane is "purchased", perk points permanently deducted from your perk point base and the plane is added to your "owned plane" list in your account. When you want to fly it, click on the plane listed under "Purchased Planes" title (which would be avaliable in the Hangar clipboard) and select the ride and fly it. This coupled with repair depots (which demand perk points in order to repair damage to the craft) would keep the pilot with his plane until he is killed.. then its back to that c202 'n go buff hunting *grin*
I can dream cant I?
