Author Topic: Perks. Look at it this way. (Read 701 times)

fscott · « **on:** February 05, 2001, 11:30:00 PM »

Imagine, a game that rewards you for the MORE you play, rather than vice-versa. WB used to penalize us all for playing too long... $300 month, $400 month, $500+..........

Now, I can't imagine a better way to reward your faithful flyers.

Additionally, I think it totally unfair to allow someone who only spends a few hours of his week flying AH to be able to fly perk rides. The perks are there to reward the guys who work long and hard to get those perks. To give them to anyone is totally unfair.

fscott

Jekyll · « **Reply #1 on:** February 05, 2001, 11:37:00 PM »

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Originally posted by fscott:

Additionally, I think it totally unfair to allow someone who only spends a few hours of his week flying AH to be able to fly perk rides. The perks are there to reward the guys who work long and hard to get those perks. To give them to anyone is totally unfair.

fscott

Funny, I musta missed HT or Pyro saying that the perk system would only reward those who don't have a life.

But you're even wrong with your above analysis fscott. Take 2 fliers: one flies 50 flights a week and flies fighters only, with the occasional buff or C47 sortie. He kills a few, he dies a lot, but he's learning to get better all the time.

The other guy flies attack missions only, and flies 25 sorties per week. He eschews fighter combat, preferring instead to climb to 30k and attack undefended flak factories, training facilities or fuel refineries.

Guess which one is gonna get a perk plane first?

LJK Raubvogel · « **Reply #2 on:** February 06, 2001, 12:10:00 AM »

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Originally posted by fscott:

Additionally, I think it totally unfair to allow someone who only spends a few hours of his week flying AH to be able to fly perk rides. The perks are there to reward the guys who work long and hard to get those perks. To give them to anyone is totally unfair.

fscott

You must not be familiar with real hard work. Like I said before, sitting in front of your monitor getting pasty isn't working hard. Regardless, why should someone who can only fly 50 hours a month not get the same for his $29.95 as the shut-ins get for their $29.95? At the very least, their ought to be a base number of perks that everyone gets at the beginning of the tour. The pasty-skinned ones can earn more with their points, but everyone should start out a tour with enough to get 1 or 2 perk rides. Why is it unfair to allow folks who don't fly as much to have limited access to perk planes? They pay the same amount as you, they should get the same value out of it, regardless.

I'd actually like to see an answer from HTC on this. It seems they are basically saying " hey, thanks for the 30 bucks, but unless you are a shut-in with no life you won't be getting the same for that 30 bucks as the next guy.

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fscott · « **Reply #3 on:** February 06, 2001, 02:08:00 AM »

Well, I guess it goes back to that old $1.95 per hour thingie in WB a while back. Wah..only the rich people could fly all the time.. Wah, how bout us po folks who have to do real work for a living.

Too bad. My money bets that HT will not budge on this one. If you don't like it then go elsewhere. We have WB III coming out, WWII Online..hm..let's see... oh I'm sure there will be others.

fscott

Jigster · « **Reply #4 on:** February 06, 2001, 02:29:00 AM »

hours are already recorded. How about perk multiplyer bonus at the end of the tour?

That way HTC can thank those who aren't constantly eating up bandwidth

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BigJim · « **Reply #5 on:** February 06, 2001, 05:09:00 AM »

LOLOLOL just read another post on this board and you can find out HOW to get PLENTY of perky's WITHOUT spending hours online

This has been known by some for quite awhile now, it took a new guy to post the secret LOLOLOL

BigJim

Duckwing6 · « **Reply #6 on:** February 06, 2001, 05:14:00 AM »

Funny fscott the way you fly you might not get enough perk points for a decent plane in 4 tours ..

yea you might be better off somwhere else really.

DW6

lazs · « **Reply #7 on:** February 06, 2001, 08:35:00 AM »

Guys..... If fscott is not proof that the perk system is for morons then I don't know what is... He proves my point better than I do. No, i didn't pay him
lazs

Ripsnort · « **Reply #8 on:** February 06, 2001, 08:38:00 AM »

I think that more focus needs to be put on rewarding those who join missions, for those who get hard earned kills, and less focus for rewarding those who simply jabo a undefended Factory.

fscott · « **Reply #9 on:** February 06, 2001, 08:58:00 AM »

It will be great will this moron can b&z from 30k feet without getting a scratch.

fscott

Moose11 · « **Reply #10 on:** February 06, 2001, 09:03:00 AM »

Ripsnort, I agree with you, and I have a feeling that HTC will tweak the perk system until it feels right. Does anyone actually think that they are going to set this entire thing up and just leave it alone? This is a company that has shipped out 4 patches in one month's time and with another large update coming soon (methinks).

Lazs, I still respectfully disagree with you because of the above point. The perk system is a completely new and innovative idea when it comes to thie genre of game, and until we see the effect it has on gameplay not one person can argue either point. What I've been attempting to get across is that until we try it, we have no clue how it's going to go. If it ruins gameplay, I'll completely change my stance, but until that point we'll just have to sit back, shut up, and enjoy the ride.

On another note, fscott isn't a moron for saying that the hard working pilots deserve perks more - like all things in life, the more you work at it the more you deserve. If the system could be tweaked so that points *do* go to the harder working pilots, it would be completely fair. The idea of base perk points each tour is also a good one, so everyone could get some time in that P47M or 51H or B29. Personally, I only have 70 perks so far with my revised handle, and had 100 or so with the old one. That's 170 perks for one tour - and I'm sure I'm the average joe pilot in that respect, so you won't be seeing those perks very often.

(what I would love to buy with my perks is just *ONE* SA-9. Get those damn stratobuffs!:-)

Respectfully,

Moose

Ripsnort · « **Reply #11 on:** February 06, 2001, 09:07:00 AM »

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Originally posted by Moose11:

(what I would love to buy with my perks is just *ONE* SA-9. Get those damn stratobuffs!:-)

Respectfully,

Moose

How about a HQ based ME163?

fscott · « **Reply #12 on:** February 06, 2001, 09:11:00 AM »

Moose, no need to dignify stupid comments and insults with an answer. Namecalling is for children, and like children, best ignored.

No one seems to mention how many points you will get for shooting down a perk plane. Who knows, you may get 200 points for a kill, just a guess. The point about the hourly rate from WB was to prove a point. Despite all the whining from the "falt-rate" crowd, they did not budge until competition forced them too. I think the same will apply to perk points. If anything, I see HT raising the costs of the initially low priced perks.

fscott

JimBear · « **Reply #13 on:** February 06, 2001, 09:12:00 AM »

Been flying the Me-163 in X-Plane....I want I want!

Pongo · « **Reply #14 on:** February 06, 2001, 09:19:00 AM »

Man Fscott. You really shook the jerk tree with that one. Your first observation is interesting. The second one is silly. If they can play better then you in 1/5th the time... more perks to em I say. The perk system even with loopholes fixed will probably have some "quality points for quality play" features.