perk the La7

[Barnes828]

Anyone else agree that this plane should be perked, even if it is only 3 or 4 points?

there are a ton of good planes that hardly ever get used, because why learn to fly a plane when you can up an LA7 and shoot down 20 planes...

they can catch tempests, f4u-4s in a dive and out turn almost anything.

thank you for recording my whine

[EskimoJoe]

I agree, I'm surprised it's not perked already.

[Pannono]

hell yes
can outrun most everything in game
great acceleration, can turn well, 3x 20mms,
but they got crap armor

[BnZ]

Anyone else agree that this plane should be perked, even if it is only 3 or 4 points?

they can catch tempests, f4u-4s in a dive and out turn almost anything.

thank you for recording my whine

I agree it needs a little perk, but fallacies and hyperbole in ones argument makes us look bad...

[SgtPappy]

I don't think I've had many Lala's catch my Spitfire in a dive.... let alone a Tempest or a Corsair unless I've just bled out all my speed. It seems that from the same speed, the light La-7 can't catch those planes in a dive. If given some time to accelerate and THEN dive, perhaps.

Also I'm pretty sure this has been discussed before. There's no need for a perk because the plane doesn't unbalance gameplay.

[Barnes828]

it will catch a tempest in a flat race. and will catch a 4 hog in a dive

[beau32]

I outran one in a tempest, turned around and put him into the ground. 

[GlacierGirl]

Yea i think a perk of 5-10 would be acceptable. Those things are hard to hit too, they are small.

[ShrkBite]

Yea, They Should be Perked. Not to high though 10-15.

[stodd]

it will catch a tempest in a flat race.

Really? Ive flown temp hundreds of times and ive never had an LA7 catch me in a "flat race". Mabey if he had just come out of a dive or I was really slow but co e, co alt never.

I do agree with giving the LA7 a perk cost though. That way whenever I shoot 1 down I can say to myself HA there goes ur perkies n00b.

[Xasthur]

This has been discussed a million times. It won't happen.

If you perk the La7, the 'n00bs' will just migrate onto the next 'uberest' dweeb plane. That will mean more Spit 16s and more N1ks.

Perking La7s will achieve nothing. If people want to run from fights... they will, they'll just do it in different planes.

La7s have such a huge weakness... Get above 10 -12k and they can't touch you.

[Anaxogoras]

I would give the Spixteen a small perk before I considered that for the La-7.  All of you who complain about La-7s must fly below 5k ft most of the time.

If you perk the La7, the 'n00bs' will just migrate onto the next 'uberest' dweeb plane. That will mean more Spit 16s and more N1ks.

This is either a slippery-slope or perfectionist fallacy, I can't decide which one exactly.

For my part, I see so many more Spixteens than anything else it makes me want to vomit.

[BnZ]

LA7 is a bad plane for noobs...for the intermediate to advanced player however, it offers a plane slightly slower than a Tempest and more maneuverable.

The Spixteen is one of the best fighters in the game, however, its weakness is mediocre top speed. Unlike the LA7, it does not out run every plane at typical MA alts, AND (pay attention, this is the important part) easily out-dogfight the other non-perked LW speed demons who are closest to it in performance. Unless you are flying something obselete for late war, you should be able to dogfight with the Spit16 on roughly equal terms, OR, engage and disengage as you choose. That is why it does not deserve to be perked...unless you also want to be perking the Spit8, and the KI-84, etc, I don't think the broad middle ground between the Hurri and the Dora needs perking. 

[Saxman]

Only argument I'd make for perking is the 3-cannon option, which was used in all of 300 or fewer La-7s.

I disagree that the Spixteen is one of the best fighters in the game. The top speed as you pointed out is generally is mediocre, and while rate of roll is spectacular the Spit IX and V are superior low-speed turners (some argue the VIII is as well, but I find the VIII one of the easier Spits to deal with, fourth after the Mk.I, Seafire, and XIV in that order). Her main advantage, like most of the Spits, is that she's easy to jump into. But there's enough aircraft that take more work to learn that are much superior once you learn them (Ki-84 comes to mind. I hate running across a VERY well-flown Frank more than almost any other aircraft).

[Oleg]

it will catch a tempest in a flat race. and will catch a 4 hog in a dive

Lie.

I dont care if la7 will perked, but leave spitty alone, it good plane for noobs to learn something better than HO & run.