Originally posted by Halo
The biggest downside of perk points in any venue is they make the best pilots even more formidable since they can most afford the premium rides.
The more i see this given as reason for not using perks the more i think its really not very accurate, Most of the veterans of AH dont use perk rides very often.There are many out there that have thousands and thousands of spare perks which they rarely spend.
I actually get the impression there are only a VERY few who would regularly fly a perk ride.Most of them seem to fly much older models as far as ive seen.
Theres also another myth used to say perks are wrong and that is that new players cant fly the perk rides while others with the perks to spare who are more experienced can and they will abuse it by picking on the easy planes.
Well sure this would be true if all aircraft that are perked are set at a very high price like 70 etc.meaning it takes weeks to earn enough perks But what most have been calling for concerning the top 4 used aircraft is a very small perk price of 1 or 2 or 3.
So how long would it take a complete newbie to gain 2 perk points even if he had minimal experience of flying games? Im only guessing but surely within a days playing he will have been able to bomb a few structures or even shoot someone down if they got lucky.Also consider a complete novice will be on a 2 week free trial and so is hardly going to complain that some of the game isnt immediately available.Why would they? they have no idea what planes are what and have all the fun of learning it ahead of them.If they cannot manage this then they wont care whether they learn in a 1943 aircraft or a 1945 one will they?
What we seem to have is a situation where we dont try a new idea because:
a minority of players (so called newbies) who generally are not paying subscribers being assumed to be incapable of learning(according to some they should be allowed to fly the best aircraft very early on to help them).
Then you have paying customers only able fly in an arena where 4 types of aircraft make up at least 50% of their engagements . They ask for a system that HTC introduced to be put to use and people complain they are out of line to be ruining the newbies chances of fun.
Am i the only one who sees this as a little wrong?
Im all for making a newbie welcome and helping them but are they really going to appreciate the top aircraft when they struggleing to learn everything in those early days? They wont suddenly have it easy in the aircraft mentioned by karnak above anyway would they?
You see what i mean? I think we are using these statements which i see often as a way to just stop any attempt at exploring the perk system.People who state them often claim 'HTC obviously doesnt want to perk these planes' when its HTC who added the perk system!! AND when they perked the F4uC they didnt tell anyone until it was done. They also claim no one in AH wants it.
well this thread seems to say something different doesnt it.Seems many would like to see a change of MA engagements if only for a tour!
(toad hope you read this)
