"Anyone wants La5 vs Spit 5 duel ? Any doubts to the outcome ? Heck, let's make it 12 vs 12 duel, still LA-5s or P38s will eat spitfires alive. "
vs 38 id bet on the spitv's. Vs la5 id bet on la5.
I dont care much about perks n stuff, but I royally find putting the 38 as such low eny to be a really bad idea. The one ride that cant run from a fight unless its facing an early war plane, the one plane that has its flaps wacked out (and it is completely dependent on its flaps too).. and which locks up controls completely on compression instead of being extremely sluggish (for some weird reason)... and its eny is lower than that of a jug-11?
Whats the reason? 38 being overused? I see far more 190's and 109s of all types than 38s in the MA. And when I do see lots of 38's its either mission planes loaded with ord that see more than half (if not all) of those 38's augering on their dive bomb runs.
When I saw the eny change, I really beleived that if someone was out to gain perks, they sure as hell wouldnt take a 38.. or a P51. I mean, look, the n1k is 10 eny... and in a n1k, any acm challenged fighter ace convert can get himself three times the kills he would get in a 38 in the same time. And not even landing the thing either. Spitv 20 perks.. and yet again a spitV has a far better chance at racking up kills faster per hour than a 38.
If its for population control, I got news... they will use it even if the ENY is 0. They will still take n1ks up , still take spits up, still take whatever ride they want up. The only real population control is the perked planes. Try perking the 51D at 2 perks and see just how many Dponies are up in the next few weeks when compares with pre-perking time. Heck it worked for the CHOG didnt it? Note: I aint saying the 51D should be perked, just saying its got an earlier version of itself and it rarely gets used while theres a LOT of 51D's out there.
In my opinion, perks should only be awarded if you land the plane or ditch it in friendly territory. Bailing out or dying dont count. I bet that will seriously control the population of the powerplanes for those that fly them to gain perks by quaking the whole time. Those who dont fly them for perks... dont get perks and later on face those that did. Its a balance thingy.. quake or perks. And I cant even start to think what would happen if all but the early war planes/variants get perked to 1 or 2 perk costs... it worked wonders in the earlier CT setups, very ,very cool.
