Official HTC comment on perking?

[Thirdup]

Maybe it would help some flyers get over the Chog perk if HTC steped forward and announced what it's policy on perking ac is going to be.  What deciding factors lead to the perking of existing ac?

Game balance?  Popularity? K/D ratios? or just simply bowing to organized whining?

I have no feelings about the Chog itself being perked (even though I fly it often).  But I would like to know what HTC policy is on perks for the future.  I have seen far to many games be dictated by a handfull of vocal players...and *that* I have a problem with.
 
3rdUp

[R4M]

methinks that they have already stated it, several times. But on the help page it is said clearly that perk system was introduced to avoid certain planes to unballance the main arena, not because numbers built nor in-service date.

(P.S...pssssssssstss then UNperk the ta152!!!  )

[1776]

Whiners on BBS won.  HTC got tired of them whiners and perked the "C" at 7 perkies.  There should now be no complaints regarding the "C" from that limited crowd.

Now what needs to be done is limit the high scoring pilots.  I say perk pilots not planes in the future

[Wlfgng]

ROFLMAO.. yeah.. perk the pilots that have earned it.

That'd really help the game.. what would there be to work for ?
Fly well, gain skills, get kills.. to what???
get perked !!!

yeah right

[Saintaw]

Mitsu will need 300 perkies to fly a C47 ... i like it  

Saw

[Zippatuh]

**Posted in another thread, works well here**

Its nice to see that a few vocal minority can whine loud enough and get what they want here.  I see that affirmative action is alive and well in AH.

I would like to see something from HiTech, a recent post, which explains the reason behind perking the Chog.  Since we have already started a trend, maybe just maybe, we can get the plane set down to only those aircraft that is “acceptable”.  I should think 4 or 5 are all you need.

I still vote for reducing everything down to C47’s, the only true and honorable way to fight.  

Zippatuh

[Torgo]

 

Originally posted by Zippatuh:
**Posted in another thread, works well here**

Its nice to see that a few vocal minority can whine loud enough and get what they want here.  I see that affirmative action is alive and well in AH.

Has nothing to do with whining, and everything to do with cold, hard, numbers. And there was ample warning after the perk system was put into place. PYRO warned the CHog was close to getting perked because the massive skew in numbers was distorting the perk point system.  This was at a level of CHog usage far below last tour.

[Zippatuh]

Ok, cold hard numbers huh.

So the total number of kills in an aircraft determines whether or not it gets perked.  Theoretically then by perking one plane you’ll force some players into another one (I think that was the point).  Now say that a majority of the players move to the same aircraft and the kill numbers rack up to an “unacceptable” number.  Said aircraft then gets perked forcing players to another.  So on and so on.  

Isn’t it possible that the impact may be a funnel to one type of aircraft after an extended period of time, purely based on popularity?

I would like to know what the actual “process” is not just an explanation of “it’s cold hard numbers”.  Perking an aircraft that has not yet been flown in MA, late war, whatever I can understand.  If the argument is “the Chog didn’t exist until late war and only so many were flown” so be it.  Shouldn’t this argument then be placed on all aircraft then and move to percentage type of system?

I.e. 20% of all aircraft in WWII was X-craft so only 20% of the total number in MA are allowed to have this aircraft.  Or a perk system based on the availability during the war of all aircraft making all planes perked in some way.

Zippatuh

Edited - I’m just trying to wrap my mind around the reasons, hoping very much that it wasn’t whining which it is appearing to be.


[This message has been edited by Zippatuh (edited 05-02-2001).]

[1776]

Zippatuh, I like your common sense thinking  Pure Mid-western logic

NOW PERK THE PILOTS NOT THE PLANES!!!!