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General Forums => Aces High General Discussion => Topic started by: bustr on August 09, 2005, 02:42:16 PM

Title: Perk Cost Purpose??
Post by: bustr on August 09, 2005, 02:42:16 PM

I'm being a little slow on the up take but I think I get what perk cost is for. By all means trash my definition if it's wrong, but I've always been slightly confused about it and the choice of planes to be perked.

The perk cost is for:

1. A balancing of the disruptive effect on game play by an Uber plane.  

2. Limits roughly/loosely the proportional use of a plane to it's historical percentage/proportion of availability, use, and numbers in respect to all other aircraft types produced and used.

If #2 is kind of correct, as a guide line for the future, HTC could possibly release some real fire breathers or exotics from the war with higher perk numbers to limit use to their proportionate reality. We could see a Meteor or P80 at 300 points or something. Or a Do335 at 500 points.

I guess aircraft production for this game is more a limitation of the availability of reliable engineering data to use in the modeling workup, rather than how many made it into the war from the discussions in the other threads.

Title: Perk Cost Purpose??
Post by: BigGun on August 09, 2005, 03:05:59 PM

Think #1 is partially right except Uber isn't a function, more of a balancing mechanism.

Pretty sure #2 is not a function of determining perk ride.

Title: Perk Cost Purpose??
Post by: Gryffin on August 09, 2005, 06:00:30 PM

1. Yes
2. No

Title: Perk Cost Purpose??
Post by: Krusty on August 09, 2005, 06:09:34 PM

The reason the Ta152 is perked is because it was rare in reality. It doesn't hold any edges in performance anywhere under 30k. I tried dogfighting at 22k in one once.. it was still miserable. It REALLY needs to be up high before it out performs anything.