Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-25467429-20150502130629/@comment-25467429-20150504141104

I guess I was thinking more along the lines of 72.240.25.77 - I just can't imagine that the stats at the end would come close to justifying the increased cost of upgrade. The stats are so similar right now to the regular tree version that I can only assume some stats will take fairly big jumps.

Make no mistake - I have a little over 2 million credits right now, and have no other planes researching. I have half a dozen fighters at lvl 9 or above right now, including a lvl 10 F-22. Plus I have the Akula from the last tournament to work with too if I really wanted a project to jump into. I could have the ADF-01 maxed pretty quickly if I had enough time to sortie/gain research for it. It's just that I personally loved the Falken from a time back and thought this was the chance to get to using it - pushing it to the head of the project list, so to speak. My admiration for the Falken is such that I would put the effort into the Sp. variant if I thought there was a payoff at the end in terms of appreciable gains in stats for that effort. I haven't done the same with the R-101 or XFA-27 because I don't have the attachment to them as I do with other planes (would lose my mind if the broguht the R-103 into this, but that is the faintest of pipe dreams).

But, the gist of what I'm hearing is that the Osea variant of the ADF-01 isn't likely to justify the final price tag for its upgrade. There's no indication PA didn't intend it to be the way it is, so its probably just another exclusivity club entry - only for those with the boundless resources of time, money, and/or patience to go for that investment.