Originally posted by Jester
JAZZ: Sorry, no airstarts for Bombers. The only place this has any place would be in a SEA set-up IMO. This is kinda the "Quake" mentality - no one is interested in it if you actually have to put some "effort" into flying it historically.
PERK POINTS: They will be reset to make it fair for everyone. With a little "effort" you can run them back up pretty quick. The reason for the perked planes is to limit their use - because they were fairly rare and few in number historically.
Nothing Quake mentality about it. What is Quake mentality and currently in operation in the CT is the 2K dive bombing hvy bomber (JU-88s are not included in this since they have dive flaps). Why do ppl do this... well heck it takes 15 to 60 minutes to get a hvy bomber to altitude and another call it 15 to 30 min to reach target and then another 15 to 30 min to get home. At best we are talking about 45 minute turn arounds. The majority of which is spent climbing in safety (read AFK while watching TV). On the other hand they could grab a buff and fly it NOE to target in about 5 min with a 1000' to 2000' grab at the very end die almost immediately and then repeat. They could also grab a JABO and use about 10 to 15 min to kill a target, get into the furball, and RTB. Not using airstarts is causing the Quake mentality behaviour not avoiding it.
Resetting Perks is not the fairest way. What happens? The guys who fly the CT regularly get set to 0 and build back up in a day or two. Even a few hours if they are having a good day. After this point the Perk Rides start coming out. For the infrequent flyers they come back for their 1 or 2 hour stays in the CT once a week and find all their perk points are missing again and never get a chance to fly the perk rides.
I'll repeat myself on the subject of perk points.
1) Every setup should have a ride perked. Preferably 1 in each category buff/ftr/gv. Perhaps only a majority since I can't think of anything that was worth perking in the last setup.
2) The ENY/OBJ values for all aircraft should be set to MA standard and forever left alone.
3) Do these two simple things and the subject of resetting Perks becomes moot.