Aces High Bulletin Board
General Forums => Aces High General Discussion => Topic started by: BaldEagl on April 11, 2008, 12:06:13 PM
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When I first started playing I longed for the day that I'd have enough perks to fly a Spit XIV. Then I flew one and promptly died so I saved enough perks to be able to die in it three times (and did). Then I dreamed of the day I'd have enough to try a 262. I finally had enough and compressed/lawn darted on my first sortie so I saved up enough to die in it three times (and did).
Now I normally have between 1500 and 2000 perks in each category. I fly/drive perk rides whenever I want to but my perks never go down. I'll up a Tiger and get several kills, then get killed and earn 10 perks. I'll fly AR234's and, between deaths earn enough perks to off-set the loss. I'll fly Tempests and earn more fighter perks. What we don't have are any real perk sinks. The way they are used, you can earn more perks while using them.
I know I'm not the only one with this (problem). There must be some better or alternate use for perks.
Here's a few I've heard over time that I kind of liked:
Allow you to transfer some of them to a not as fortunate squad-mate.
Perked ord for non-perked planes/vehicles (Tallboy/Grand Slam for the Lancs please... 4x20mm's for the Spit V)
Additional perked rides (or perking some that aren't now)
And here's a few off-the-wall thoughts of my own (I have't thought these through... just tossing them out as they occur to me):
Save your K/D after bailing by using perks to negate the death
Repair damage by using perks (planes, vehicles, field structures, etc.)
Take control of a CV from a higher ranked player by using perks
Improve boost to historic levels in some planes by using perks
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i get to 300 and then burn em trying out different perk planes until i get down to 20ish (always useful to have a spare C-hog in the hangar ;) )
on the other hand some of my squaddies have 10s of thousands lying around, and like you say taking a perk ride out just earns them even more. was thinking just the other night that maybe there should be some really heavily perked rides which arent in any way uber, just very rare variants, flown purely for status value or amusement.
a 600 perk carrier-launched, non-formation B25 springs to mind (many people are apparently obsessed with that mission.) there must be a bunch of such aircraft/deployments out there, any suggestions?
suggestion 2: AI fighter drones :D
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lol I have over 10000 perks in fighters and I know of others with much much more. I don't fly hardly anything but 38s.
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Lost 1500 fighter perks since start of tour :D
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Never got over 400 in any category.Partially due to me changing accounts every time i decide to play again(htc doesn't have a "freeze account" option :() and partially due to me just crashing for fun in perk rides.
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Never got over 400 in any category.Partially due to me changing accounts every time i decide to play again(htc doesn't have a "freeze account" option :() and partially due to me just crashing for fun in perk rides.
That "Freeze Account" option would be a wonderful thing. I've lost over 10,000 perks suspending and restarting accounts. Think of all the F4U-4s I could fly with those, eh?
Not that I would. I like the -1.
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What would be a lot nicer is a perk economy that isn't broken. More late war planes perked lightly, bomber worth using them on or better yet bomber perks to use on field supplies which build player made bases etc. You can do so much more with the strat and perk system than the rudimentary implementation we have now.
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I saved up enough perks to fly 262's for an entire campagin. It was great fun ...and quite a challenge.
Helm ...out
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The best way to jump start the slow perk economy would be for HiTech to give all paying players 600 perks to spend. :salute
:noid
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When i left the game a year or so ago over 100000 perks went with it hehe. Now i have a few thousand again, but there is nothing to spend it on. Jets are boring, and so is tempest and f4u4s. I try to get killed in Tiger and the 234 is useless so im stuck.
I wish AH had some way of donating them to your squadmates. I have a few of those the go through perk points like i do whiskey. :uhoh
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Close to 33,000 fighter perks here ... no real need for them ... wish I could transfer them to vehicles ... The Tiger is probably the only 'perk' ride that use with any frequency.
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I wish AH had some way of donating them to your squadmates.
Then I could sell my perks each month and would probably play AH for free :aok
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22k here, waiting patiently for a P-47M :)
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Perk system is worthless always has been, unless your a score tard using perk rides on a constant basis C-Hog,Temps and the odd 262 to pad your score. Though idea of being able to transfer perks between squad mates is a good one.
Shame they aren't worth as much as WoW Gold on ebay, could make a nice part time job flying my Yak. :D
<S>...-Gixer
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I long for the day that I see at least 500. I always waste my perks and only have 15 fighters right now. :( Bombers I have 300 GV's I have 125
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Then i want a cloak of invisibility, a quiver with never ending arrows, a flaming indestructible sword and................?! Perks are over rated and under used i agree. The only 2 things i'd agree on adding with HUGE perk values would be extremely rare planes that did get into the theaters of operation but never had any verifiable combat service or very limited service/numbers. Also special types of ords/guns as stated. As an example B29 or the king tiger tank, 1000 perks or more just to up 1. In other words a formation of B29's would cost you 3,000 plus perks. Standard ords only though no nukes!! Sorry but that's just going a tad overboard.
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the problem with you is that you are all saftey sallys...
Stop purse swinging from the tree limb...get down and dirty..Turn fight that Tempest...De akk in that Jet and Jet bomber
Poepl who say ..whaaaa I have too many perks and actaully fly perk rides..are way too timid
I underdstand that You are "flying the plane how its made to fly"....Duuuh..thats why its a perk ride... it out performs all planes.....
But get dirty...it makes your heart beat a bit faster when you do a few things the plane was not meant to do...and survive...or not
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Once we get the perked ordnance system (if it's still in development that is) then we'd have something worthwhile to spend our perks on. At least, that's what I'm saving my 100k perks for. Tried blowing perks a few years ago on flying nothing but the ME-262 for a tour but ended up gaining perks instead of losing them.
ack-ack
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Once we get the perked ordnance system (if it's still in development that is) then we'd have something worthwhile to spend our perks on. At least, that's what I'm saving my 100k perks for. Tried blowing perks a few years ago on flying nothing but the ME-262 for a tour but ended up gaining perks instead of losing them.
ack-ack
That's the thing, once you reach the stage that you are good enough to earn that many perks, fly the perk rides will just get you more of them. This is why they should perk the P40B so that we could have the pleasure of flying a challenging ride, and wasting perks at the same time! So that some don't whine, we could have two P40's listed for this purpose. One unperked, the other perked. Might as well let the P40 E be the same for those wanting a better early ride.
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False: Perk planes do not necessarily out perform all planes. It's the pilot behind the stick. I've seen idiots fly tempest's and i've seen great sticks fly em and there's a big difference. The good sticks can take that thing into the middle of a huge pile of enemy and pick em apart. The idiot is usually a cherry picker who makes 1 mistake and dies then whines for 5 min on 200. I have at least 3 squadies who i know love to go down low with a 262 and fight with it but they know what they are doing. If i did it i'd be dead in less than 5 min.
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I wish AH had some way of donating them to your squadmates. I have a few of those the go through perk points like i do whiskey. :uhoh
:noid
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Save your K/D after bailing by using perks to negate the death
lol omg... talk about the ultimate score potato booster.
donkey
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Why not make it so that you can't earn any perks at all while flying/driving a perk-ride?
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I have enough fighter perks I can killshot myself on a squadie in while in a Me262. :rofl
For those that cant get perks heres the trick. When you log on switch to the country with the lowest numbers and roll a mossi. Most sorties I get 30-50 perks. A tip, go after LA7s, nikis, spit16s first.
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Then I could sell my perks each month and would probably play AH for free :aok
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With all your perks Lusche, you could play AH free for 10 lifetimes! ;)
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I've got 1500 fighter, 600+ bomber and 74 gv perks...
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SpikesX like tigers much?
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SpikesX like tigers much?
Heh...I used to have around 1000 gv perks...I just roll a tiger into the middle of a huge GV fight and get blown up...gv perks are something I don't really care for...