Analisys of the Env'y and perk point system from the USAGE point.
Thesis:
Perk point and ENV point systems are designed to even out the playing field for all planes in the arena.
Planes which do not have high usage are encouraged by making then high ENY value, which allows pilots to accumulate perk points faster.
Method:
The only official sources from HTC are on the scores pages.
Info was drawn from IE Expanded format scores for tour 26 ( march ).
All planes were matched up with their env values ( NOTE: Those are NEW AND UPDATED ENV values as posted by Eskimo2 at
http://www.hitechcreations.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=49877This is to refect the aim in which Pyro would like us to go towads. Also, I did not have the old ENV values for analisys, if anyone has them, please send them my way. )
Total number of earned PERK points per each plane type was calculated. Example:
Zeke killed 100 C205s, hince 27/40 * 100 = 67.5 points
( there is an assumption here that ALL those kills were landed, which offcourse they were not. I have no access to sortie/death data hince I have to assume a liniar relation for all the planes. Good offshoot of this is that it eliminates all the discussion on the defensive abilities of the planes involved - good speed, good climb, ability to dive away )
Total number of perk points for each plane was totaled, and divided by the total number of kills.
Example:
Zeke had total of 11978.54 perk points earned and total of 8156 kills. 11978.54/8156 = 1.468679 perk points per kill.
Same was done for all the planes.
Also, all the kills were totalled up and mean of kills was found by dividing total number of kills/total number of planes. If all the planes got equal number of kills, they would get 2.27% of the total number of kills, which is 6144.77 kills.
Both data sources were put in the columns attached with this post.
Results were sorted by the AVERAGE PERK POINTS/KILL column.
Means were:
Average plane will get 1.13 perk points for a kill.
Average plane will score 6144 kills in the tour.
P/K column
Planes marked in red for Perks/Kills columns are those which earn LESS THEN HALF of the average P/K points. Flying those planes, you need to score twice the number of kills to get your average.
Planes marked in green in P/K column, are those which earn DOUBLE number of perk points per kill. Flying those planes will earn you twice the number of perk points per kill.
% Kills column
RED: planes which on average score more then DOUBLE average number of kills for the arena. ( Planes that scored more then 6144*2 = 12288 kills ) This indicates OVERUSAGE.
GREEN: Planes which scored less then half the average kills in the arena ( 6144/2 = 3072 kills ). This indicates UNDERUSAGE.
Conclusions:
First perk points per kill:
All perk planes and N1K2 and Spitfire 9 fall in the category of planes which earn least points for flying them.
Usage ( % kills ) of Perk planes is very small, which Spitfire IX is a king of the hill.
Interesting fact is that second most used planes - P51D doesn't fall in the Low P/K category.
Another heavly overused planes - LA7 on average earns 1.5 times more points per kill then spitfire 9 or N1K2.
Of interest is %kills of F4U1-C - low perk in the arena. It has reasonable 2.02 usage, well within 2.27% mean. This seems to lend creditibility to those calling for overall lowering level of perks to single digits and teens.
As far as %kill numbers are conserned ( usage )
Planes in the bottom of the list - 202, Ki61, 109E/F, Spit 1, Hurries are bargin perk hunters, and very much UNDERUSED.
Suggestion here would be to raise their ENV point value even higher, which may in turn raise the usage levels.
Low usage of P51B is of interest here, seeing how it's younger brother 51D is the second most used plane in the plane set.
Feel free to draw your own conclusions.
Disclaimer:
I realise that %kills isn't the best indicator of usage, but I have no other reliable indicator that I could use.
Pyro, would sortie number be avaiable on request ?
