Aces High Bulletin Board
General Forums => Aces High General Discussion => Topic started by: Toad on June 06, 2002, 01:34:24 PM
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OK, here's my idea for a truly excellent use for perk points. Hear me out now. ;)
I'd like to see HTC set up an E-Bay type auction for perk points.
A player can offer XXXX perk points for sale and the other players can bid on them. Successful bidders have their credit card charged by HTC for the amount bid and the perks are transferred from the seller's account to the buyer's account to use as he sees fit.
Now, the money.. always the money.
The money goes to a charity. I don't care which one. The seller can designate a charity or we could all vote on which one to give to at the outset. Give to Cancer Research, the World War II Memorial, whatever. I guess the seller would end up with some form he could use for tax purposes.
or.. we could donate the money towards buying and restoring a nice Warbird held by an independent non-profit corporation. :D :D :D
Sellers and buyers would be elegible for rides on a lottery basis.
We could work out the details later. :)
I've got perks to sell.. might make me actually work to get some more too, instead of just ignoring them. Gee, it might achieve the goal of giving people something to try to live longer for. It might even make the lesser seen planes that "give good perk" more popular.
Just an idea.
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I like it.
I'd also be happy just to be able to give them to my squad mates.
eskimo
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O.k. I'm game who wants to bid on my 434.49 vehicle perkies? Just don't spend them all in one place! :D
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Maybe we could redeem them for swell prizes.
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I still like my idea better... let us use our perk points to cancel another players perk points.... you guys would have to be nice to me then...
lazs
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Alittle off topic, how about lowering the perk price of these perk planes and then resetting the perk points at the end of each tour? That way, its like an RPS, everyone will be using them up the last few days (or not using them at all)
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Laz and Rip...... why not do something concretely positive with all those dust-collecting perks? Why not have something to show for it?
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Toad - GREAT IDEA!!!!! I especially like the charity tie in. Unfortunetly there would need to be folks to administer the whole thing and I doubt HTC want's to foot the bill for that. I do like the idea though.
Avid
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Ok, I vote for Toad's Idea.
Now the question is who would buy perkies? I don't have many and don't use them as it is.
If you would be a purchaser of perkies please explain why you would buy them?
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Not to finish robbing this thread, but I wish they would mod the perk distribution just a bit.
Why not have something to show for it?
Speaking of which, I wait for new planes and pay for my account just like everyone else. How about letting me fly a 262 once a month? That’s all. Come home from work with no master perk building plan. Just load it up and fly it. Or a couple of TA152’s. Lose em, back to square one, day one.
Basically at the start of each tour you have a minimum perk point bank, say 300 no max. Build 3000 points a tour, fine keep em. But if you have 19 like me, you get reset to a predetermined number, at least as much as the most expensive fighter, which at this point is the 262.
{Pop up screen on log in}
“Dear valued customer,
Tour xx begins today. Your AH plane perk bank has been reset for the new Tour effective immediately. Your balance is increased to the minimum balance 300 fighter points.”
Unless of course perks are a reward system, in which HTC could leave it be and tweak just plane costs. I don’t think that’s the intended purpose however.
Oh, and I'm not opposed to the charity thing, I just would like the buyers names posted so someone can call the 1-800-SAVE-A-TARD hot line for obvious stupidity disorder.
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Originally posted by Creamo
Oh, and I'm not opposed to the charity thing, I just would like the buyers names posted so someone can call the 1-800-SAVE-A-TARD hot line for obvious stupidity disorder.
LOL!
I hadn't thought of that. I just ASSumed that there'd be enough perk plane starved guys that would pay to play with their dream machine.
I sort of figured there'd be plenty of sellers too.
OMG! What if this game is FULL of buyers and few sellers?
AHHHHHHHHHH!! I'm a SUPERGEEK for even being here amongst 'em!
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Cool idea.
I've got an idea for perk point usage, but I'll post it in another thread.
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Originally posted by Toad
OMG! What if this game is FULL of buyers and few sellers?
In that case, it's time for me to set up my own charity organization.
-- Todd/Leviathn
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My favorite charity is myself.
Hooligan
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HT how about a perk point bank. One where for a modest fee you can save perks. Transfer them to squadies, or another arena.
You know all the things we want banks to do with our money only for perk points.
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All scores are reset to 30 perks at begining of tour.
All planes are perked.
You can gamble with the perk points in the officer's club.. Crud or Ace's high Poker, or duels
You can make wagers using your perks
You can transfer perks to team mates
You can pay off perk debts
You can pay guys to join your mission. (heheh)
You can buy perks from HTC to use for charity. (hmm don't know how that works)
Great Ideas!
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Great idea, but who would pay for perk points? I don't play in MA, but if I did I'd earn em before I ever thought about buyin em... lot cheaper that way :)...
But that could kinda throw off the whole perk balance system dont u think? might have to raise the proce of everything...
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toad... your idea would get more perk planes in the arena so it is not a "positive" thing to me. My idea would remove perk planes from the arena so it is a "positive" idea.
ripsnores idea would do me no good whatsoever and have the negative effect of having more perk planes in the arena. besides.... I kinda like having close to 5,000 of the damn things doing nothing. Who knows? Maybe something useful will turn up some day. I "earned" em I might as well keep em till they are good for somethihng.
lazs
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Originally posted by Ripsnort
Alittle off topic, how about lowering the perk price of these perk planes and then resetting the perk points at the end of each tour? That way, its like an RPS, everyone will be using them up the last few days (or not using them at all)
This is a good idea (if ya perk everything :) ). Good idea even if ya don't though.
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Originally posted by Ripsnort
Alittle off topic, how about lowering the perk price of these perk planes and then resetting the perk points at the end of each tour? That way, its like an RPS, everyone will be using them up the last few days (or not using them at all)
I like that Idea except it wouldnt be fair for the people like me who only fly for a few hours a month. But maby if you got some free perks at the beginning of each tour, say enough to fly 1 262, then you get at least 1 chance to fly it, or 4 chances to fly a spit14 etc etc.
Another problem would be the tour before this came into effect. When Hitech makes this announcment the there will be a scramble to spend those hoarded up perkies :) Laz will have to quit for a month.
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roscoe... what "if" you were granted perk points at the beginning of each tour equal to the amount of the highest perked plane?
err..Toad, no Hijack intended. Just asking.
The charity thing is pretty cool, wonder how many people would actually want to buy perks.
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Why have 3 seperate perk "pools" why don't we just have 1? I've got over 1,000 vehicle and bomber perkies combined but what do I get to use them on? I flew the Arado a couple days back and that is a once in a blue moon flight, the 234 is just a boring plane to fly. Heck, I ended that mission by landing on the carrier! I'd like to see an everything that flys perked system, you run out of perkies then time to climb into a GV and build up another "pool".
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What Eskimo said. Would be neat to see a mass 262 sweep:)
Shamus
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Originally posted by lazs2
toad... your idea would get more perk planes in the arena so it is not a "positive" thing to me. My idea would remove perk planes from the arena so it is a "positive" idea.
You'd likely also get more early war planes that give good perk as guys tried to build up perks that now actually had some value. ;)
Maybe not much, but some at least.
With apologies to Arlo:
"Playin' flight games with the old men on the internet.
Penny a perk ain't no one keepin' score.
Pass the paper bag that holds the bottle
Feel the engine rumblin' thru the floor.|"
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But mabey if you got some free perks at the beginning of each tour, say enough to fly 1 262, then you get at least 1 chance to fly it, or 4 chances to fly a spit14 etc etc.
That’s a sweet idea Rosco.
Great thinkers and visionaries aren’t the norm.
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why don't we just admit that the "perk" idea has shot it's wad...
It was a complex solution to a nonexistant problem to begin with and it's flaws just become more apparent as we get more and more planes that aren't mid, to mid/late, war. I don't use the points now so why would I use em more if I had less of em?
No.... why not just have 2 days at the end of every tour where all the perk rides were free and do away with the whole leaky abortion of a 'perk' system? It would be more fair and.... the perk rides would get used more than they do now... people would all get to try em and they wouldn't be that anoying to those who hated em.
lazs