Top pilots get perkless aircraft for next tour.

[Lusche]

Only if you limit yourself to bombing town centers.  If you want to hit anything of value you expose yourself to risk.  Even Lusche loses bombers, as he recently noted only the Mosquito Mk XVI was self sustaining for him.  He lost perks on the B-29s and Ar234s.

I had one of the best sustained K/D's of all players  in the 29 in the age of the central strats. Yet on 265 Superfortress strat runs I lost a total of over 3500 perks due to combat losses, disco and similar non-combat losses not counted. A typical B-29 run on the strats yielded only 2-6 perks , due to it's OBJ of 2.


Even when only milking town centers it's difficult to sustain your perk level. It's still only 4-8 perks per mission, and at 100 perks nominal price it takes a lot of milk runs to make up for the loss of even one Superfortress-

[ReVo]

Not this either.  Many players like playing for it and it isn't right to remove their fun.

We don't need these people.

[FLS]

We don't need these people.

Maybe you don't but Aces High does.

[Karnak]

We don't need these people.

Yes, we very much do need them.  HTC is a business and if they don't have enough subscribers they will close up shop.

[ReVo]

Yes, we very much do need them.  HTC is a business and if they don't have enough subscribers they will close up shop.

It might possibly, maybe, bring back players who enjoy *Gasp* fighting.

But I understand your logic. I too enjoy flying around for an hour chasing people back into their ack so they can save their precious score.

[Karnak]

It might possibly, maybe, bring back players who enjoy *Gasp* fighting.

But I understand your logic. I too enjoy flying around for an hour chasing people back into their ack so they can save their precious score.

People doing that usually aren't flying for score as their kills per time unit are too low to be competitive.  Usually the people doing that are inexperienced (regardless of how long they've been playing) and don't want to get shot down again.

[ReVo]

People doing that usually aren't flying for score as their kills per time unit are too low to be competitive.  Usually the people doing that are inexperienced (regardless of how long they've been playing) and don't want to get shot down again.

I disagree, some very familiar names have popped up doing this. I can't blame it just on the inexperienced.

[LCADolby]

How about instead we remove score from the game? 

[Tinkles]

How about instead we remove score from the game? 

I think HTC should remake the 'score' system entirely, and make it engaging and fun for everyone while still being called 'score'.

Not sure what we could change to make it so everyone would enjoy it, but I think it's a possible thing that HTC could do.

[LCADolby]

If we must have score, think it would be good if score was hidden from the players until the end of the tour

[Tinkles]

If we must have score, think it would be good if score was hidden from the players until the end of the tour

Interesting idea.  I think though that the stats that should be shown all the time are hit % and maybe kills (not deaths).  Then - like you said- at the end of the tour 'everything is revealed' 

[danny76]

How about instead we remove score from the game? 

100%

[ReVo]

I think you may be outnumbered here Karnak.

[Karnak]

I think you may be outnumbered here Karnak.

Nope, not remotely.  I have the one guy who actually counts in the same corner as me on this one, HiTech.

As a note, game bulletin board messages are a terrible way to gauge what the player base actually wants because the participants are usually about 5% of the player base and are self selecting.

[Megalodon]

How about giving the lowest ranked pilot free perk plane instead? 

Give the top ranked pilot mandatory 40 ENY equipment for the subsequent tour.   

Great Idea!