N1K decline

[Anaxogoras]

Anyone else notice that the N1K is making less of an impact on the arenas?  The trend matches the N1K's update.  Kind of reminds me of the La-7.

July
% of all non-perked fighter kills+deaths: 4.75
K/D ratio: 1.27

August
% of all non-perked fighter kills+deaths: 4.65
K/D ratio: 1.23

September
% of all non-perked fighter kills+deaths: 4.32
K/D ratio: 1.21

October
% of all non-perked fighter kills+deaths: 3.30
K/D ratio: 1.19

November
% of all non-perked fighter kills+deaths: 2.84
K/D ratio: 1.12

December
% of all non-perked fighter kills+deaths: 2.84
K/D ratio: 1.13

[BnZs]

The La7 is as deadly as it ever was, or, if its not, it must have been insane before, I feel the same is likely true for the N1K.

Benefit of the doubt, maybe a lot of the player base has decided to fly planes they've actually heard of and have historical/coolness factor for them, instead of flying whatever is hyper-modeled or can HO really well?

[simshell]

it feels like the arena has gotten faster

with spit 5s and 9s being replaced by the spit16


my only guess is that people want to go faster and the nik is not filling that wish

[Zazen13]

Being a tactics and strategy dweeb, I have noticed a lot more people dipping their toes into the water of initiative fighting. Like the Niki, even Hurricanes, which were becoming extremely common in LW as Ho'ing dragonfly planes are more rare than they have been. As they probably should be as a pre-1939 design. More people are experimenting with and getting the feel for initiative planes that tend to be able to dictate the fight when flown properly rather than only being able to react.

[Anaxogoras]

I've never held the N1K in as high a regard as the other 5 ENY planes, far from it in fact.  Except for a truckload of 20mm it's nothing special.  Perhaps more are starting to see the world the way I do.

[Scotch]

Niki's and La's don't hold enough ordinance for the increasing land war game.

[FiLtH]

Wouldnt be nice if they made a map with only air spawns? 3 bases all many hexes apart. No ground war at all. Call it the Air Map.

  Oh and yes I havent seen many Niks lately either.

[Anaxogoras]

Niki's and La's don't hold enough ordinance for the increasing land war game.

I thought the N1K was an NOE favorite?  "JOIN MISHIN, NIKKIS AND 110S!!!!"  It can carry 1100 lbs of ords, after all, and the cannons work great on buildings.

[SectorNine50]

I see a coloration with school...

[choker41]

Your right about the N1K in a decline.  I do think and see more people running away in the 51D more than ever.  I'm not upset by this trend of declining Howagons.  I'll take a decline in all 5 eny planes. In fact, I think any eny plane of 5 should be perked. 

[Karnak]

Your right about the N1K in a decline.  I do think and see more people running away in the 51D more than ever.  I'm not upset by this trend of declining Howagons.  I'll take a decline in all 5 eny planes. In fact, I think any eny plane of 5 should be perked. 

Fighting, even badly, is vastly preferable to running away.  People don't learn anything about how to fight by running away.

[fudgums]

Anyone else notice that the N1K is making less of an impact on the arenas?  The trend matches the N1K's update.  Kind of reminds me of the La-7.

July
% of all non-perked fighter kills+deaths: 4.75
K/D ratio: 1.27

August
% of all non-perked fighter kills+deaths: 4.65
K/D ratio: 1.23

September
% of all non-perked fighter kills+deaths: 4.32
K/D ratio: 1.21

October
% of all non-perked fighter kills+deaths: 3.30
K/D ratio: 1.19

November
% of all non-perked fighter kills+deaths: 2.84
K/D ratio: 1.12

December
% of all non-perked fighter kills+deaths: 2.84
K/D ratio: 1.13

The next Lusche 

[Lusche]

Anyone else notice that the N1K is making less of an impact on the arenas?  The trend matches the N1K's update.  Kind of reminds me of the La-7.

Seems the same thing is happening with most planes. Plane gets updated, K+D goes down, but so does the K/D too. In other words they are used less, and with less success.
It happened that way with the La-7, N1k, Me 262.

Benefit of the doubt, maybe a lot of the player base has decided to fly planes they've actually heard of and have historical/coolness factor for them, instead of flying whatever is hyper-modeled or can HO really well?

I am not that optimistic about our player base.

Niki's and La's don't hold enough ordinance for the increasing land war game.

The N1k is, and has always been, a favourite ride for NOE landgrabbers, because of it's performance and firepower, which is ample when strafing towns. One Niki can kill at least 10 town buildings with it's guns alone. Bombs & guns combined have the destructive equivalent of about 4000lbs of bombs

The next Lusche 

No graphs...

[B4Buster]

I've noticed this too. IMO the N1K was the easiest 5 ENY plane to kill too, hopefully those N1K drivers are trying to learn something other than a 5 ENY plane (or maybe they just went to the spit 16) 

[1pLUs44]

But aren't you fellas glad that the new trend isn't P-51s and 190Ds like it was mid last year?