Okay, something needs to be done about the P-38J in the Mid-War Arena. Unperked, the plane is a extremely unbalancing, just look at last tour. It was the #1 killer in the Mid-War Arena by a good margin. No other plane is so dominating, especially in the right hands (more on this later) in Mid-War. It's come to the point that if I log into the arena and see a couple of certain individuals logged on, I'll just log back off. No reason I should waste my time trying to up and fight these particular guys because it's impossible, sure they get shot down from time to time but it's always by having to gang them, 1v1 or even 2v1, they are a match for pretty much anything that flies at them. Get them out of the uber over modeled P-38 they fly and they're just fodder and can't fly, which brings me to my next conclusion.
The P-38J in the Mid-War arena last tour had 4060 kills, the most kills of any fighter. While looking at those stats, I found something pretty interesting and eye opening. It seems that the majority of the kills in the P-38J belong to a handful of players and all of them are members of "SAPP", the *cough* self-proclaimed experts in the P-38. Two of the SAPP players account for a combined 25% of the total kills (one has 12%, the other 13%) and yet both of them only account for 4% of the deaths. The other SAPP players have similiar stats but if you look at the non-SAPP players, you'll see the opposite in their stats (i.e. their deaths outnumber their kills). I find it strange that the only ones that are successful and can do those 'impossible' things you see a P-38 do are only flown by those SAPP guys, strange stuff like being able to pick someone off with a single 20mm round in a vertical zoom climb from D1.2 away, out turn planes like Spitfires, Zekes and Hurricanes and any other stuff us non-SAPP flyers can only wish we can do in the P-38J. Why is it these players can do almost God-like stuff in the P-38 while the rest of us can't, even though we have tons more skill and ability than any of those SAPP guys have?
After doing some more research, I think I found the answer. It is clear that these players are getting a boost somehow and from the time some of these players have been playing (one of them professes to have been playing and flying the P-38 for almost 15 years, since AW! Yeah, I call B.S.!) they must have someone above looking after them. It turns out that there is someone named Pyro who is a long time P-38 fan (from the rumors I've heard, he too use to play AW and was a hard core P-38 driver) and has some ties to HTC. Then someone sends me a gunsight that all the SAPP players use that was supposedly made for them by someone close to HTC (see below for image of the gunsight) and it is supposedly this gunsight that is the key to their success and uncanny aim.
So, while I ask that the P-38J be perked in the Mid-War arena, I also ask that something be done about those SAPP players that are obviously getting preferential treatment, like this gunsight shows.
ISpyWithMyLittleEye
