Message text As I mostly agree with him, I post a translation of AndyG message:
1) I love Blue Max as it is. Not as it is in this (wonderful) site, but at it is in the box (ok, I don't like blue PK so much  )
2) Increasing the fuel: why? To balance planes? It it is so, I want 6 tail points for the Camel and Snipe moves for Halberstad CL IIa. So don't waste time: let's make a Snipe chit with german tags and let's everyone fly with that plane... 
3) Even if there are no victory statistic for single scenarios for single plane, I agree that some scenarios are a bit umbalanced. But this is often less influent than dice luck or pilot abilty. I don't think that even a fokker drI with 100 times it's original fuel, a penguin (i.e. novice, he has wings but he doesn't fly) to come back alive if Falconfab is on the Spad XIII.
By the way, about our rating leader, he always play scenarios on both side (so both with 37 and 52 fuel), but this don't influence negatively his score.
Furthermore, is some scenarios are umbalanced, changing the fuel amoun probably will umbalance them in the other direction, or will umbalance scenarios that are now balanced (like 4^3, or Here comes the Navy).
4) The phrase: "1. The one still in the game (not retired AND not shot down) with the highest score" put on the same level a pilot that has retired and one that has been shoot down, and this is terrible. It goes against real and valid war concepts: Strategical retire: escape today to fight tomorrow...
5) I understand that is disappointing when your enemy flight off with a point more in his score, it is happened to everyone, but this is an etiquette matter, more than rule matter. I retire only if I'm out of fuel, out of engine, or if I'm in a bad sitution (and so I admit my enemy superiority) but it is a choiche of mine. I don't think that we can oblige everyone to follow a similar behaviour.
6) every plane has its personality, his values and his faults, and his way to be used weel. For example, in Runner vs. Dancer I have much more fun with the Fokker, and I think that I've flown better with the dancer.
The same for 2 players "New Models" (a scenario that I've played on both fronts "ad libitum"); even if everyone thinks that SE5a is a better plane than Albatros DVa, I fly a lot better with the latter (turned stalls are IMHO better than 7 points of fuel and the 23 moves).
And now a radical proposal: NO VICTORY!
An ace is a pilot who has shot down five planes, not a pilot that have shot at long distance a burst more than his enemy.
Let's keep the kill/dead statistic, let's add the kill per flight, dead per flight, number of consecutive flight without being killed, best streak of kills without being shot down. |
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