Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-25467429-20150502130629/@comment-109.152.90.217-20150504184046

DRosencraft wrote: My "rub" is that every other special variant has been at least realtively modest in the price increase, regardless of the boost in stats. Even the X-02 -Kingiht- while costing about 45% more overall than the standard X-02, at least has a change in weapons load, despite still not having a terribly large boost in any of its stats. The stat boost on the F-35 Taurus is rather dramatic, but it too remains relatively reasonable in price compared to other similar-stat planes or even its standard self. So saying that its expensive because it's a free drop doesn't really make much sense to me. I also don't see where the "balance" is. It's minimally if at all better than the standard one, which does nothing to change any balance issue that may exist with that standard variant. There'd be no real gain had with the Osea, so why not maintain a more traditional price level? Why boost the upgrade cost by dozens of times?

It's more than 12x more expensive to take the Osea Falken to lvl 4 than it is to take the standard one there. Why?

I guess I just don't get what you would be paying for. The mini Wardog emblem on the body? I've personally given up any reason to care for upgrading the Osea version until I just have nothing else to spend credits on, but I'm trying to understand the rationale here. I'd hate to know it was just arbitrary, but I don't really see a sound explanation so far either. without causing to much aggro, i would like to suggest that the regular falken is a end game fighter, you need the rank of mayor and a full leg of the tree to get it, this can take anywhere from 75 to 125 sortys to reach. by contrast as a free drop you could theoretically get the osea within your first 12 min of playing the game. this has left PA quite rightly/incorrectly putting a simple method on it to balance it.

a new player can get some use out of it but still have a need to invest and use other planes.

and long time players who have just spent the last two months to there Falkens to level ten (myself included) don't feel like that hard work was wasted, or undermined by a free drop of a plane with the red paint job, nice emblems and (slightly?) higher stats.

and for a few dollars more, you are right to point out the taurus's prices seem to undermine this theory, but the F35 has been out and in the game since day one, the falken is a more resent addition, and frankly seems to me to be the more sort after of the two drops despite the taurus's much better practicality.